HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers, Ardent and Acasta, broke away from the main British carrier squadron during the evacuation of Allied forces from Norway. Sailing alone across the hostile ...

The British Navy knew it couldn't completely disguise a ship to protect it from attack during WWI. So they turned to 'Dazzle Painting' which sought to disguise a ship's speed and direction.

But in the spring of 1940, the Battle of Dunkirk turned out to be one of the most successful military evacuations in history, as the British Navy ... the middle of World War II with only the ...

Another favorite, the HMS Argus from the British Royal Navy was one of the earliest ... to identify abandoned vessels. During World War II, thousands of ships were disabled, sunk or partially ...

The Royal Navy has ... escort survey ship Admiral Vladimirskiy after detecting the vessels movements in the southern North Sea on March 20, the Royal Navy said on Tuesday. The British minehunter ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that delivered ... and the most advanced in the British fleet, with the latest ...

For a land-locked state, Wyoming has its share of naval history, including two battleships that served in the Civil War, ...

If the Germans could use their brand-spanking new navy to stop that, sinking ships and cutting off supply lines, they could starve Britain out of the war. So, the British Navy had one clear goal ...