Key Point: The shells of Warspite and other Allied naval guns followed the torpedo boats back through the smoke. One of Warspite’s scored a hit and instantly sank a trawler. To HMS Warspite went the ...

At the end of 1939 I had said farewell to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and in January 1940 set forth to join my first ship, HMS Southampton, a cruiser of 10,000 tons undergoing a short refit at ...

The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the construction of a series of warships that could carry and independently aim heavy guns external to the hull. In 1905, HMS ...