As Japan advanced through Southeast Asia, the British sent Force Z - battleship Prince of Wales, battlecruiser Repulse, and accompanying destroyers - into contested waters to deter invasion. Instead, ...

Several things were wrong. And so it continued. Between the wars, the giant battlecruiser HMS Hood looked tremendous. But the ...

In this captivating video, witness the daring maneuvers of the HMS Repulse as it skillfully evades an onslaught of enemy torpedoes. Set against the backdrop of intense naval warfare, this ...

We've been taking a look back at some of Barrow’s amazing maritime launches over the years – delving into the renowned Sankey Archive.

Tributes have been paid at the funeral of Second World War warrior Jim Wren, who was torpedoed by the Japanese, held as a POW and had a portrait commissioned by the King.

A funeral service has been held for an " extraordinary" World War Two veteran who survived three and a half years as a prisoner of war. James 'Jim' Wren, the UK's oldest Royal Marine, survived the ...

The Admiral Nakhimov has the distinction of being the only nuclear-powered battlecruiser in the world. Earlier this summer, the Kremlin finally acknowledged that its flagship aircraft carrier, Admiral ...

Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

Nuclear powered Russian battlecruiser Peter the Great (Pyotr Velikiy), pictured in 2003. The Kirov class battlecruisers have not spent much time at sea in recent decades - Reuters The hulking ...

What You Need to Know: Western sanctions are straining Russia’s military-industrial complex, as demonstrated by the prolonged refit of the Admiral Nakhimov, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser ...