HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under ...
The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...
Fortunately, the Royal Navy offered its assistance ... The USN might well have lost the ships in the bitter, hard-fought battles of World War II, but this is always the potential fate for useful ...
Unsinkable Sam was no ordinary cat; he became a wartime legend known for surviving the sinking of not one but three naval ...
Toward the end of World War I, King George VI served with the Royal Naval Air Service. He was appointed Officer in Charge of ...
What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...
They are thought to be the graves of Royal Navy sailors and civilians ... Wreck could be sunken Athenia from WW2 British POWs sank on this WW2 ship - should it be raised? Submarine chaser HMS ...
The Royal Navy battleships were dispatched to Singapore during the war to shore up the defence of Malaya. They were sunk by Japanese torpedoes on 10 December 1941. The strike - which occurred just ...
It was used extensively by the United States Navy during World War II to allow their ships to remain at sea ... according to the Royal Navy. However, since their introduction they have been ...
Experts from the Royal Navy have confirmed the identity of a World War 1 wreck ... Lieutenant Commander Jen Smith, who has joined the team on previous dives including surveying the wreck of WW2 ...
As the world’s navies grow, they strengthen below the waves as well as above. Several nations are betting big on submarines.
The names also represent the Royal Navy’s future vision ... in the port and denying its use to major German warships for the rest of WW2. The action epitomises the raiding ethos driving the ...