Before aircraft carriers dominated naval warfare, battleships were the most powerful assets at sea, influencing major ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship ... down American torpedo bombers”, the WW2 Database website says.

The USS Stewart, nicknamed the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been sunk, resurrected, rescued and sunk again during its wild lifetime. In August, three autonomous drones scanned the ocean floor, ...

As the world’s navies grow, they strengthen below the waves as well as above. Several nations are betting big on submarines.

Originally designed for about 150 passengers, the Struma was retrofitted to carry almost 800 people, such that its sleeping quarters lacked space for the passengers to even sit up.

The book concludes with an interesting chapter comparing the Littorio Class with battleships of other nations at the time. An important work for anyone interested in warship design, the naval side of ...

A German battleship opens fire on the Polish ... and the most destructive war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion, launched? documentWW2: How was ...

Henry Roy "Pete" Black Jr. enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 24, 1939, and died exactly five years later in the sinking of the USS ...

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...

The escort carrier USS St. Lo was the first ship targeted ... Strait in World War II was one of the key encounters of the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf. It is by some accounts the largest naval ...

We started doing some research and learned that George and Herbert Brousseau were twin brothers from Waterloo who were lost at sea during World War II,” said ... which their ship sank on Oct ...