The keel of the future USS John Basilone, a US Navy guided missile destroyer, was laid at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works’ (BIW) shipyard on Friday, January 10. ..
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Acting US Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly has confirmed that the US Navy’s two newest Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines will be named USS ..
A team led by marine archaeologist Mensun Bound has located the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst, an Imperial German Navy armoured cruiser sunk in battle during the first year of ..
It is no wonder that modern navies have trouble recruiting submarine crews. If any potential recruit submariner were to read this account of relentless hunting of Nazi ..
An underwater archaeology team from Greece’s University of Patras has found a large shipwreck believed to be from the time of Ancient Rome off the Ionian island of ..
From its origins in 1901 until the late 1950s, through its deep association with the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy became unmistakably British in outlook, ..
One of the Casemate Illustrated series, this is excellent, easy to read history. Replete with first-rate illustrations, this book makes history come alive. As is ..
At 6.18am on 13 December, 1939, cruisers HMS Ajax, Exeter and Achilles (the last of which was from the New Zealand Division) took on German armoured cruiser KMS Admiral ..
You get the impression, talking to contemporary seafarers, that their voyages never actually end. I’m not suggesting that they are like the Flying Dutchman, doomed to ..
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