Manufactured by Fairey Aviation (eventually acquired by Westland Aircraft in 1960)—the same company that produced another famous WWII “flying fish” (so to speak), the Swordfish biplane ...

A 103-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant commander has been sharing stories with Guernsey's Lieutenant Governor of his service ...

The Battle of Taranto occurred on the night of November 11, 1940, as a strategic British assault on the Italian fleet anchored in the port of Taranto, Italy. Concerned about Italian naval power ...

The Fairey Barracuda made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and torpedo-bombing purposes. The plane was ordered as a replacement for both the Swordfish ...