Queen Elizabeth I's defiance during the Spanish Armada threat became a historic moment. She inspired her troops with a powerful speech, asserting her resolve. This victory cemented her image as a ...

Changes in maritime technology, however minor, sometimes have been enough to change the course of history forever. So it was 422 years ago this week that the world witnessed one of those landmark ...

AN officer of the American navy has lately aroused widespread interest in the influence of sea power upon history. For England the subject has a very special significance. Supremacy at sea is the only ...

Picture of the recovery of a Spanish Armada cannon at Streedagh May 1985 by Colin Martin The discovery of the St Peter cannon of the Spanish Armada at Streedagh in 2015 by the Underwater Archaeology ...

In 1588, 130 Spanish ships pointed their bows toward England, intent on invading the country and overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I. But they were unprepared for the battle they instigated. British ships ...

After what the Heritage Lottery Fund has described as one of the most successful funding campaigns ever, one of three versions of the 1590 “Armada portrait” has been acquired by the Art Fund for ...

More than four centuries after it sank to the sea bed, the secrets of a Spanish Armada wreck are being uncovered off the west coast of Ireland. A number of cannons, timbers and an anchor from La ...

Archaeologists plan to discover whether a myth-shrouded plot of land on Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast contains the remains of hundreds of Spanish sailors who drowned when the Armada floundered.

Driven from home in search of work, the number of highly qualified young economic refugees taking menial jobs in Britain is growing Pilar Mártinez is a qualified lawyer who is currently working as a ...