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The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these...
With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a special...
For more than 30 years the Nile river gunboat was an indispensable tool of empire, policing the...
Days before the outbreak of World War II a handful of German commerce raiders put out to sea to...
For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of...
The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare. It was the decisive...
At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British...
In the early 20th century Britain's largest colonies established their own small naval presence,...
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast...
For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic...
Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From...
In 1906, the Germans began building their own dreadnought fleet armed with larger guns, word of...
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of...
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of...
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. The first half-dozen...
The light cruiser was a natural development of the sailing frigate - a fast multi-purpose...
The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of World War I, and was closely linked to...
Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing...
This book describes the life of a pirate in the early 18th century, the 'Golden Age of Piracy'....
The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure...
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