An archive of 22 Royal Nay telegram messages describing the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck is up for auction in the U.K. The Bismarck has been described as the largest and most powerful ...

GEORGE WHALLEYwrites about his experience at the sinking of the BISMARCK: “I was twenty-fire, a sublien tenant serving with the Royal Nary; it was less than a year sinceI had joined the service. My ...

Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck ...

Following the sinking of hms Hood in May 1941, the Royal Navy launched one of the largest naval hunts in history. The German ...

On this date in history: In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia. In 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for his adhesive tape, which was later ...

Barnsely, So. Yorks: Pen & Sword/Havertown, Pa.: Casemate, 2010. Pp. vi, 170. Illus., maps, diagr., appends., index. $32.95. ISBN: 1848842503 Albeit unfortunately ...

Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...

A pilot who grew up on Tyneside and is credited with launching the torpedo which crippled the German battleship Bismarck has died at the age of 97. John Moffat spent part of his boyhood in Low Fell, ...

The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler's small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck would join ...