Tag: Pensacola Navy Yard

One hundred and fifty-seven years ago this week, the first U.S. Navy ship to bear the name of America's first settlement was commissioned at the...

On the morning of January 20, 1914, the battleship Mississippi and the coal ship Orion steamed through Pensacola Pass toward the Pensacola Navy Yard, which the navy...

Nearly 200 years ago, Pensacola was a growing port city along the Gulf Coast, newly seized from the Spanish Empire by the formidable General Andrew Jackson and the...