Wikimedia Commons/USN photo courtesy of Photo i.d. courtesy of Chuck Norris ETC, Retired. The USS Cavalla USS Cavalla left ...

The U.S. Navy’s WWII-era Alaska-class ships were unique and powerful warships, essentially a hybrid of a battlecruiser and a heavy cruiser. -Armed with nine 12-inch guns, they were faster than ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were lost to history — until now.

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

A bell, a gun badge, and a tampion were recovered from the wreckage of HMS Vanguard and will be loaned to the Scapa Flow ...

It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.

On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered a chain reaction that lead to World War ...

Still reeling from the horrors of World War 1, France vowed never to be vulnerable to German invasion again. This determination led to the creation of the Maginot Line, one of the most imposing ...

This article was originally published with the title “Woodbury's Improved War-Ship and Submarine Guns” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 10 No. 25 (June 1864), p. 385 doi:10.1038 ...

A woman in Shandong, China, was allegedly attacked by a man with a high-pressure water gun on Jun. 7, 2025. The pressure from the water gun spray apparently caused severe injuries to her right eye ...

Drawing on inventories and other evidence, some old and some new, this paper examines the nature and distribution of the guns on board ship between 1485 and 1515. The schedules available for ...

Royal Navy ships, formed in two lines, sailed directly towards the enemy thus bringing the whole of their strength to bear on the centre and rear of the enemy fleet of thirty-three ships. Leading one ...