which are due to be replaced by six modern multi-role strike ships. What is particularly significant, however, is that the Shuiqiao offers capabilities along similar lines to the Mulberry harbours ...

Landing craft 92 had left the ... recalled in a memoir written a few weeks after D-Day. They were part of an Allied armada of some 5,000 ships, carrying about 150,000 men, that was preparing ...

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel ... of this epic battle to share their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds a vivid blow-by-blow account ...

In April 1944, the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beaches ahead of D-Day. During the rehearsal, a German fleet attacked, sinking two allied ships. Around ...