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 ...
The time is 9 PM approx. The Captain spoke to the ships company telling Us that the great assault was at last to take place and that we were Steaming to take part in it. Sat 3rd That we were on our ...
Feb. 25 (UPI) --Britain's third dreadnought-class nuclear submarine will be named the HMS Warspite, the defense secretary announced on Monday. Secretary Gavin Williamson revealed the name as he toured ...
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 ...