At the Battle of North Cape, the light cruiser HMS Belfast faced Scharnhorst, a ship far larger, faster, and powerful enough ...

Undisturbed at a depth of 82 meters, the wreck of HMS Nottingham bore a tragic human toll - 38 crew members perished when the cruiser was torpedoed by the German submarine U-52 on August 19, 1916. A ...

In April 1942, just days after crippling two British cruisers off Ceylon, Japanese carrier-based dive bombers struck again.

George Coyne of Lightwater, Surrey. In 1945 I was serving in cruiser HMS Sussex. My ship was part of a task force (Operation Livery) in action at Phuket Island in what is now Thailand. The Japs ...

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...

On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck was on a roll. The largest and most powerful ship in the German Navy, the mighty Bismarck had broken out into the Atlantic Ocean, sunk a Royal Navy ...