ON THE COVER:
Dramatic painting by Mauritz de Haas depicting the Union fleet under David Farragut passing Confederate forts below New Orleans and setting the area on fire. (NHHC)

FEATURES:

FINAL PATROL
The USS Herring simply disappeared while on a mission against the Japanese. Decades later, Russian researchers have discovered her final fate / by Mikal Hardesty

LAST SURRENDER
The amazing exploits of CSS Shenandoah — the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe and the last Confederate ship to surrender — six months after the conclusion of hostilities / by Nyles Jeffers

AN UNFORTUNATE MEETING
A disastrous mid-Atlantic collision would do little to improve passenger safety aboard ocean liners of the period / by David Harkness

ARTISTS AT THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
US Navy artists would capture important moments in one of the most critical of all US Navy WWII battles / by Rod Elmsdorf

DEPARTMENTS

MUSEUM NEWS
Plans for a new maritime museum in Alexandria, Virginia

INTEL FILE
What it takes to scrap a US Navy nuclear-powered warship

LOST AT SEA
More doomed ships whose sailing days are over / by Susan Duprey

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