Prior to the First World War, Great Britain was the dominant naval power in the world. As an island nation with a vast colonial empire, it had to be, and since the Napoleonic Wars, the British feared ...

What You Need to Know: The article highlights five battleships deemed ineffective or "a waste of steel" due to design flaws, poor performance, or obsolescence. The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was ...

When it comes to history, it's typically the most legendary ships that are highlighted. But at the other end of the spectrum, certain warships didn't exactly make the grade. Sometimes there were ...

The Second World War was fought on many fronts, with skirmishes occurring on land, in the air, and at sea alike. As a result, several forms of transportation and warfare became synonymous with the ...

The Battleships by Rob McCauley and Ian Johnston (Channel 4 Books, 2000) £20.00. Relates the story of the battleships from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf war, and their role in global history.

Tensions are rising shaply in the Taiwan Strait after British warship HMS Spey sailed through the contested waters - sparking a furious response from China's military, which branded the move an ...

Drone image above the wreck of HMS Erebus Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team Braving water temperatures that dipped below freezing, divers spent nearly four weeks off the coast of Nunavut in ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...