Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been.

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

British Indian minister Lisa Nandy today unveiled plans for festivities over four days in May to commemorate the 80th ...

In early 1940, the German tanker Altmark attempted to evade the Royal Navy while carrying 300 Allied POWs, captured from ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee. When spotted by a British aircraft, ...

The Wellington Trust, owner and custodian of HMS Wellington, the sole surviving dedicated Battle of the Atlantic convoy ...

The world's largest container ship, the MSC Irina, has officially entered service, boasting a length of three football pitches and weighing the same as 250,000 cars. With a twenty-foot equivalent ...

AN EXHIBITION of ship models depicting vessels built by Ailsa Shipbuilding ... a ferry commissioned by the company which pioneered the roll-on roll-off ferry after World War II and an anti-submarine ...

By May 1940, he was serving as a cook aboard the minesweeper HMS Gossamer. Harry’s ship was sent as part of the Operation Dynamo flotilla to help evacuate 338,000 British troops stranded at Dunkirk.

Nine ships sunk by German torpedoes during World ... discovered off the coast of Scotland was confirmed to be the HMS Hawke, a British cruiser sunk by a torpedo during World War I, killing more ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 Diver Chris de Putron inspects the wreck of the German submarine UC-18 ...

It was the first Canadian naval vessel to transit the waterway this year, Taiwan's foreign ministry said, and came days after two US ships made the passage. The United States and its allies regularly ...

most of the men we took down below perished with the ship, their injuries were so severe they were unable to save themselves before it was too late.' - Ordinary Telegraphist Bill Johns ...