In November 1941, a German U-boat sank HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. Ark Royal had been a thorn in the side of the German navy during the early years of World War II. Ark Royal is one of ...

A British fishing trawler caught the surprise of a lifetime in its nets, setting off a chain of events that ended with a massive explosion in the waters off Scotland. The catch: a wartime German mine ...

In 1941, the British T-class submarine Triumph played a risky game of hide and seek in a covert theater of World War II. The British Royal Navy sub darted between assignments in the heavily patrolled ...

More than 12,000 metric tonnes of bombs were dropped on the British capital during the war Police stand guard near the cordoned-off Victoria Embankment in London on January 19, 2017, following the ...

In July 1941, a British submarine sank an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea. In November 2021, a team of divers found the wreck of the Italian sub in waters south of Mykonos. "The ...

Summary: The HMS Hermes, a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, served the Royal Navy from its completion in 1959 until it was decommissioned and sold to India, where it served as INS Viraat until 2017.

Key Point: Some historians argue the UK likely could have ‘lost’ the Battle of Britain— i.e., relinquished air superiority to the Luftwaffe—while remaining safe from invasion due to its overwhelming ...

Many in Royal Oak are remembering resident Cliff Alvira, who survived the D-Day landing in World War II, but seldom spoke of the carnage he saw as an 18-year-old U.S. Navy seaman in a landing craft ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall— and its more-than-200 servicemen went ...