The HMS Queen Elizabeth was a World War I super dreadnought that is now considered by many to be a significant turning point in the history of capital ship's. Laid down in 1912, and launched in ...

Sharman is thus immortalised in literature. A much-respected figure around the town, Sharman passed away in 1867, one of the last surviving members of HMS Victory’s crew at Trafalgar.

The Bismarck ’s sinking of HMS Hood, the largest battleship of its kind, in May 1941 was felt nationwide. The aft magazine exploded and the ship sank within minutes.

Some thirty former crew members of Swift-sure Class nuclear submarine HMS Spartan gathered at the war memorial in Sunderland’s Mowbray Park, county of Durham, and paid their respects to fellow ...

A Nanaimo war veteran and centenarian, said to be the last surviving crew member of the HMS Hood, is being mourned by family and friends. Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at ...

A Nanaimo war veteran and centenarian, said to be the last surviving crew member of the HMS Hood, is being mourned by family and friends. Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at ...

Indeed, the loss of HMS Hood in 1941 is a history lesson not just for understanding what declining empires look like. It’s a warning from history to current U.S. Navy war planners to challenge ...

THE Royal Navy ethos of rescue after conflict was the key message as hundreds filled the parish church at Boldre in a service to remember the sinking of battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941. Conducted by ...

At the break of dawn on May 24, 1941, the mighty HMS Hood – the pride of the British Royal Navy – met a tragic end in the frigid waters of the Denmark Strait. Once the largest warship globally, the ...