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 ...

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 ...

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 ...