PORTSMOUTH — Beside Prescott Park’s anchor sculpture, Taps sounded on Friday as flowers were gently tossed into the glistening Piscataqua River to honor service members lost at sea. Beverly Stone, a ...

Why does the U.S. Navy still bury sailors at sea — sometimes making families wait over a year for this rare and solemn ...

PORTSMOUTH — Mayor Deaglan McEachern said “all the uncertainty in the world” makes us think about the ongoing sacrifice of those who serve in the military to protect us. “It is a scary time in the ...

In a TikTok video shared earlier this year, a family gathered on a boat pushes their loved one’s coffin into the ocean and bids them farewell. The poster wrote in the video’s caption that her mother’s ...

From torpedo tube funerals and reef ball burials to top-secret ceremonies involving Soviet submariners, the U.S. Navy’s burial at sea is anything but ordinary. Here's how the ceremony works and the ...