In February 1942, German battleships Shanho and Gnisau executed the audacious Channel Dash, evading the Royal Navy and RAF in ...

The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau terrorized Allied shipping with unmatched ferocity while navigating the ...

3 Key Points: The Bismarck, Germany’s pride and the largest battleship built in Europe, was launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1940, only to meet a tragic end within eight months of service. Known ...

More than 60 battleships, including 23 from the United States alone, took part in combat operations during the Second World War. They were among the largest capital ships ever built, yet the conflict ...

As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U-boat in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1943, the sailors on the Navy destroyer braced for impact. Turbulent waters in the north Atlantic Ocean negated ...

The Imperial German Navy was, in large part, the creation of two men: Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930.) The Kaiser’s mother was an English princess ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...