A convoy of merchant vessels being escorted into a British port under the protection of the fleet of the Auxiliary Patrol Service, WW1. By April 1917, Britain had lost 373 ships carrying much ...
On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...
When the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941, battleships were already on the wane. Aircraft ...