The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

It’s December 1943. The intrepid German battleship Scharnhorst sails through the freezing cold waters of the Barents’ Sea, ...

It’s 1943. The intrepid German battleship Scharnhorst sails through the freezing cold waters of the Barents’ Sea, hoping to ...

Two hours into the engagement, an explosion rocks Tirpitz; the crippled battleship soon capsizes and sinks. The Japanese concentrate their fire on Bismarck, which has slowed to a stop and ceased ...

"Pocket battleship" was the nickname given by the British to a very unique German weapon of war: the Panzerschiffe, or armored ship. Created as part of the nation's efforts to bolster its military in ...

Outgunned and isolated, HMS Glowworm engaged a far superior German battleship and chose to ram rather than surrender. The ...

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf War.

It was all too late. The German battleships opened fire with their eleven-inch guns at a range of fifteen miles. If you are the captain of an aircraft carrier, these are the words you do not want to ...