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ON THE COVER:
Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) led by a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine. The ships were maneuvering in the waters east of the Korean Peninsula on 30 September as part of a show of force to counter recent threats imposed by the North Koreans with that nation’s variety of missile firings. (USN/Gray Gibson)

FEATURES:

“THE GIBSONS OF SCILLY”
An English family’s incredible century of recording shipwrecks along the deadly Cornish coast / by Johnaton Wheaton

THE GHOST SHIP THAT WOULDN’T SINK
The yacht Joyita has a most curious history — ranging from a mysterious murder during the Golden Age of Hollywood until a day in 1955 when all the passengers and crew suddenly disappeared / by Marshall Wainwright

LA GRANGE FIGHTS BACK!
A veteran of seven Pacific landings, USS La Grange became the last US Navy ship to be hit by a kamikaze during WWII / by Robbie Stewart

THE BATTLE FOR FORT SUMTER
This attack on a Union fort was not only the first major engagement of the Civil War, but it was also the first naval battle / by Fred Roberts

THEIR GUNS WERE ALWAYS READY
Continuing our photographic history of the Iowa-class battleships / by James Thompson

DEPARTMENTS:

MUSEUM NEWS
Go for a sail aboard Friends Good Will

INTEL FILE
Fat Leonard is captured but the case against top Navy officers gets stranger and nastier

YOUR NAVY
Latest images from the military’s top photojournalists / by Howard Carter

SEA MAIL
Readers comment on the Fat Leonard scandal