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 ...

A diver bought a shipwreck from World War One on Facebook Marketplace for £300 - because he "fancied owning one". Dom Robinson, 53, first found a passion for exploring shipwrecks as a child and has ...

Read the full lyrics of "Guns and Ships" from Hamilton's musical Broadway show, where Daveed Diggs raps 6.3 words per second.

For some tabletop alternatives, you might try our guides to the best WW1 board games, or best war board games in general. Naturally, we also have a list of the best WW2 games on PC, which similarly ...

Gun #3 of the USS Ward, which fired a round at a Japanese midget submarine and sank it outside the Hawaiian harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, about an hour before the infamous aerial sneak ...

A deactivated World War One German machine gun was stolen in August 2023 and an SA80 rifle the month prior, however both have since been found. In December 2021, a Glock 19 Pistol was stolen.

The ship exploded and sank in fewer than eight minutes with just 70 sailors surviving. The month before sinking HMS Hawke, the same U-boat sank three Royal Navy cruisers in one hour, killing more ...