HMS Kent, one of the Royal Navy's most modern warships ... was the first major naval battle in World War II. The German pocket battleship (heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee had been commerce ...
The U.S. Navy also converted cruisers into Independence ... in precursors to the great carrier raids of World War II. At the ...
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) located the wreck of an American World War II-era warship 82 years after ... evading 1400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked ...
Former UK defence ministers claimed on Monday that a decision by Britain's Royal Navy to rename a nuclear-powered submarine ...
He was among 337 men killed in October 1942 when the Queen Mary ocean liner crashed into the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Curacoa and caused it to sink. Mr Wood's sister, Margaret, is a member of ...