Aerobatic acts from across the globe will perform, including the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and Royal Air Force Red Arrows.
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Boothbay Harbor audience won’t be able to escape Cantrip’s musical spell
The eclectically influenced band takes the Opera House stage at 7 p.m. Friday, while other ensembles will be in town Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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A Maine fisherman was lost at sea. His loved ones want to bring him home.
Freeman Short, an Aroostook County native, was 1 of 7 people aboard the Lily Jean when the fishing vessel sank off Massachusetts in January. His body was never found.
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Ceremony honors 5 sailors who died in U-boat attack off Maine coast 81 years ago
During a memorial for the USS Eagle PE-56, which was torpedoed in 1945 off Cape Elizabeth by a German U-boat, family members of several sailors collected Purple Hearts on behalf of their lost loved ones.
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Pete Hegseth to Maine BIW workers: ‘Nobody builds it better than you guys.’
President Trump’s defense secretary visited on Monday the Bath shipyard that may help design and build the administration’s new ‘Golden Fleet’ of warships.
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Bath Iron Works christens latest destroyer named after Marine Corps commandant
U.S. Marines and the family of Gen. Louis H. Wilson Jr. shared stories of his service and home life at the ceremony.
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Bath Iron Works wins contract to build new U.S. Navy destroyer
The vessel is to be named after Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient.
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This Bath-built ship refused to launch — until John Wayne gave it a push
In September 1976, a crowd of thousands gathered as a dramatic scene took center stage when one of the newest warships of the United States Navy defied launching — that is, until a true American legend stepped up. It was America’s bicentennial year and the USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first in a […]
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When a German U-boat sunk a ship just off Maine’s coast
In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay and fired one torpedo. Forty-nine men lost their lives, a great naval manhunt was launched and an enduring controversy […]
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard exempted from civilian hiring freeze
The shipyard is among the ‘readiness-centric facilities’ listed in the updated directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.