While the USS Samuel B Roberts frigate backed up on April 14, 1988, while sailing in the Persian Gulf, the ship struck a ...

After twenty years and billions of dollars, Littoral Combat Ships are finally performing mine countermeasures as originally ...

In 1988, as the Iran-Iraq War raged, the USS Samuel B. Roberts was nearly destroyed by an unidentified naval mine in the perilous waters of the Persian Gulf. When Navy divers uncovered evidence ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts, shown here a week or two before she was lost in the battle. (U.S.