Battleships were among the largest, most complex, and most powerful weapons of their day. Combining the largest guns and the thickest armor, they were impressive warships. While battleships were already powerful, some navies sought new designs that were even more...
Like many of the world’s navies the auxiliaries play a key role for any naval force large or small, enabling them to remain on station anywhere in the world. Every major navy has an auxiliary force of some kind operating in conjunction with their navies, ship...
USS Texas is currently closed to the public while she undergoes restoration work, to find out more about her status and to donate to the ship please visit https://battleshiptexas.org/ This article was written with help from Travis Davis and Gabe Shuffield from the...
NOTE: The opinions and writings in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Canadian government or armed forces. The Canadians have one of the longest and most inhospitable coast lines in the world, this makes policing the...
Hotel class With the successful operation of the worlds first dedicated ballistic missile submarine B67 known as project AV611 (NATO Zulu IV) in 1955 the race was on between the USA and the Soviet Union to do more.The United States started to deploy the Regulus...
by Matthew Wright There is no question that Admiral Sir John Fisher, Britain’s First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1910 and the effective head of the Admiralty, was instrumental in driving a sea-change in the nature of heavy warships. What has puzzled historians,...
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