What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring aircraft carriers over traditional battleships. Despite being completed in ...

Battleships are generally best known by their guns, and for good reason. A ship carrying eight sixteen-inch guns may have the same weight of broadside as one carrying twelve fourteen-inch guns, but ...

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 ...

The Most Advanced Warship Of The Victorian Era' HMS Warrior was Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured battleship and for a ...

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 ...

A slipway from the 18th Century where ships for Lord Nelson's fleet were built and launched has been excavated by archaeologists. The team from the University of Southampton said it was the first time ...

The Royal Navy says it has conducted its first ship-to-ship delivery of supplies using a drone. The drone flew from flagship HMS Prince of Wales to the Portsmouth destroyer HMS Dauntless during the ...

China ordered its air force and navy to track U.S. and British warships as they passed through the Taiwan Strait on a recent ...