Moreover, HMS Conqueror sunk the Argentine battle-cruiser ARA General Belgrano, making it the first and only nuclear-powered attack submarine to have engaged and sunk an enemy ship with torpedoes.
During WWII, Norrie participated in D Day, the Allied assault on Nazi-occupied France. On 6 June 1944, his role was ...
A sailor aboard light cruiser HMS Glasgow, which suffered minor damage and escaped in the dark with the former liner-turned-warship Otranto, described the horrors aboard Cradock’s flagship HMS ...
It consisted of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, the battlecruiser Renown and a light cruiser. But Force H had to find it first. British intelligence had decoded some of the Kriegsmarine’s ...
Despite the odds heavily against him, Cradock went into battle and Graf Spee had an easy victory, destroying two armored cruisers for just three men injured. The Royal Navy lost HMS Good Hope and ...
A force including the American and British heavy cruisers USS Houston and HMS Exeter and the Australian and Dutch light cruisers HMAS Perth, HMNS De Ruyter and HMNS Java set out to destroy the ...
Sections of HMS Birmingham was spotted being towed up the River Clyde towards BAE Systems in Govan where it will be constructed.