World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly ...

TO millions of Only Fools And Horses fans, Del Boy and Rodney’s Uncle Albert was the Royal Navy’s unlucky Jonah. Captain Birdseye lookalike Albert Gladstone Trotter, played by Buster Merryfield, ...

The British navy tracked a Russian spy ship in the English Channel this week, the UK's defence secretary has said, amid concerns about the sabotage of undersea cables. Defence Secretary John ...

The British navy tracked a Russian spy ship in the English Channel this week, the UK's defence secretary has said, amid concerns about the sabotage of undersea cables. Defence Secretary John Healey ...

These navy ships sailed independently or in pairs, hunting British commerce ships and transports. Two years after the end of the war, the money-poor Congress sold off the last ship of the ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

The UK has tracked a Russian spy ship in its waters twice in recent ... was in the North Sea after passing through British waters. Two Royal Navy vessels, the HMS Somerset and HMS Tyne, were ...

The British navy said Wednesday that it is ramping up ... vessel in UK waters for the second time in weeks. The Russian spy ship, called Yantar, sailed through the English Channel this week ...

The U.S. Navy has always been one of the world's most sophisticated armed forces. With its top-of-the-line equipment and ships — including the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the largest ...

Names have power. It's common practice for the U.S. Navy to name its warships after the country's principles, such as Freedom or Independence, or admirable character traits like Diligence.