Back from its deployment in the Red Sea, we are featuring U.S.S. Gravely for the monthly WAVY Navy Ship Salute. Commissioned in 2010, she is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Her crew ...

Back from its deployment in the Red Sea, we are featuring U.S.S. Gravely for the monthly WAVY Navy Ship Salute. Commissioned in 2010, she is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.

The NATO group consists of the US guided missile destroyer USS Gravely, the Polish frigate ORP General Kazimierz Pulaski, the Turkish frigate Gokova and the Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon.

Back from its deployment in the Red Sea, we are featuring U.S.S. Gravely for the monthly WAVY Navy Ship Salute. Commissioned in 2010, she is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.

The Gravely Celebration Experience took place on Tuesday, Feb. 25, aboard the USS Battleship Iowa, in San Pedro.

Samuel L. Gravely Jr. The event, according to the Battleship USS Iowa Museum, is intended to showcase the vice admiral’s life and career. Gravely Jr. was the first African American to take ...

Gravely Jr., the first African American to command a U.S. Navy warship. His distinguished career began aboard the USS Iowa, paving the way for future generations in the military and beyond.