Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 The ceremony at Devonport was a celebration of Plymouth's ...

Admiral Andrew Cunningham steered HMS Warspite straight into the lion’s den, gunning to corner the Italian Royal Navy in a fierce clash right off their own coastline. It was a bold gamble that ...

Cannon inspecting a passing-out parade for recruits of the Prince of Wales’s Division (in which his son was an officer) Commander Tim Cannon, who has died aged 81, helped to put out a fire in a ...

THE ROYAL NAVY came just seconds from a nuclear disaster after colliding with a Soviet submarine in the Barents Sea, a historian has claimed. The incident came just six years after the Cuban Missile ...

Warspite, despite its flaws, became an emblem of hope and resilience. From the Battle of Jutland in World War 1 to the pursuit of German destroyers in Narvik and the amphibious landings at Normandy in ...

Children have commemorated their primary school’s historic links with a famous ship sunk in one of the great disasters of the Second World War by building a scale model of the vessel. The Cobi model ...

Prussia Cove was for the most part unheard of, until in 1947 the famous battleship HMS Warspite broke her tow whilst on the way to the ship breakers, and went aground on the hazardous rocks. A piece ...

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 One of Britain's "deadliest ships" has been honoured at a ...