The United States Navy began to think about battlecruiser construction even before HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible entered service. Prior to the construction of Dreadnought, the USN had built ...

The Prince of Wales was one of the Royal Navy's most important battleships but it, and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, had been sent to sea without any aircraft to protect them. The ships are ...

Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser. Big, fast and powerful, for the population at home, she was a symbol of Britain's supremacy in the world.

including Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, were reported to have been damaged or destroyed by thieves. The UK government "absolutely condemns" the ...

The Fuzhou-registered vessel was found to be carrying an artillery shell and scrap metal believed to be at least 80 years old.

When the Battlecruiser II arrived, the packaging was quite beaten up. Let's hope everything is okay inside, considering there are four tempered glass panels. Pulling the Battlecruiser II out of ...

They include HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, whose hulls had for decades served as graves for the 835 men who went down with the two ships. But the callous gangs of scavengers have now looted ...

Claude Choules, 107, a Royal Navy man, served on board HMS Revenge and now lives in Australia. Watch the UK ceremony » Fellow seaman, Bill Stone, 108, served as a stoker aboard the battlecruiser ...

A ROYAL Navy Petty Officer from Keighley, who survived the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales in the Second World War, has been honoured by having his uniform displayed on a new aircraft carrier ...

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