The article ranks the top five battleships of all time, highlighting their significance during the era when battleships ...

After a strike by carrier aircraft, British warships pounced on May 27. With Bismarck dead in the water, its sailors scuttled the ship with explosives. British heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire later ...

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 ...

How German Battleships Defeated a British Aircraft Carrier in 1940 At ... one of the most controversial naval battles of ...

The USS Stewart - named after Charles Stewart, a Rear Admiral who commanded a number of warships in the early ... The ship was part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command when, in ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft ... This superficially resembled British practice of the day, in which battleships and battlecruisers shared core design ...

The North African Campaign of World War II, spanned from 1940 to 1943, was a pivotal theatre of war that tilted the balance ...

The British vessels, on the bed of the ocean some 100km (60 miles) off the east coast of Malaysia, had been targeted for decades. The Royal Navy battleships were dispatched to Singapore during the ...

It was the first time New Zealand lost a military vessel since World War II. All 75 people onboard ... However, since Saturday, the ship's British-born captain Commander Yvonne Gray, who ...

Approximately 5,000 British paratroopers landed behind German lines the night before the attack to prepare the beaches for invasion. The Royal Navy also supplied 250 warships and seven small ...

The monstrous battleships of the first half of the twentieth ... The bigger story, perhaps, is the enduring relevance of World War II to the construction of national identity within Asia.