A number of NATO warships have arrived in Glasgow ahead of Exercise Strike Warrior, a major multinational naval exercise set ...

The HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship and the most advanced in the British fleet, with the latest rangefinder and radar technology. The Prince of Wales was used in the ...

said the “difficult decision” had been made to run RIHS under a new format for this season New partnership sail to King George V glory, but elimination causes late change to placings The ...

On May 23, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was an awesome behemoth of Nazi naval power that undertook Operation ...

The wreckage of a battleship in the Bristol Channel has been granted protected status by the government. HMS Montagu became grounded near the isle of Lundy in 1906 and had to be salvaged and ...

During the Second World War, USS Washington scored the sole one-on-one battleship kill (as the Bismarck received aid from the ...

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King George V, second son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was born in 1865 and served in the Royal Navy until 1892 when he became heir to the throne following the death of his elder brother, ...

The monstrous battleships of the first half of the twentieth were more than tools of national power; they constituted a nation’s strength, in both real and symbolic terms. The big warships ...

The battleship of the future will be of great size; displacement will be not less than 20,000 tons; and this will increase so rapidly that a 30,000-ton ship will probably be afloat before the ...

Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in the path of HMS Defender as it sailed some 12 miles (19km) off Crimea's coast. The UK government ...

The captain of HMS Diamond says the Houthis are now using more advanced and more lethal weapons. Cdr Pete Evans says when the ship first entered the Red Sea in December, one-way attack drones ...