The Royal Navy came into its own during the "Age of Reason," in which ancient Greece was seen as a virtuous and exemplary ...

Can you believe it? In a stunning twist of history, ancient ships older than the pyramids have been unearthed in the Egyptian desert! These remarkable vessels, dating back over 5,000 years, were found ...

The naming choice for the lead-ship and thus a class of the battlewagons was unique – as it was essentially a do-over for the 40th state. During the First World War, the U.S. Navy began to move ...

The idea for the HMS Vanguard came in response to a strategic assessment that by the early 1940s, the Royal Navy would be outnumbered in battleships by the German Kriegsmarine and Japanese Imperial ...