From the towering steel giants of the early 1900s to the sleek, radar-guided behemoths of World War II, battleships were the ...

The naval commander himself had been killed by a French sniper, and his loyal captain Thomas Hardy was determined to keep a ...

On This Day, 21 October 1805, Britain’s greatest ever naval hero proved conclusively that Britannia rules the waves… and died ...

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Here’s what you need to remember: Construction of the warship stopped and restarted during the war, and as a result to modifications being made to address wartime experience. HMS Vanguard wasn’t ...

"I had the best view ever, I think, of the landings in Normandy." George Spencer, who was born in Nottinghamshire, was 18 years old when he stood at the top of the mast on HMS Nelson in June 1944. Now ...