World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...

While the difference may seem pretty insignificant, the larger guns were associated ... In April 1947, the lead ship sank to the ocean floor after receiving 10 torpedo and 7 bomb hits from ...

“Apparently mistaking the Maddox for South Vietnamese, three DRV patrol boats launched a torpedo and machine gun attack on her ... an American naval ship, the destroyer USS Maddox, was ...

a small-caliber automatic gun, two missile launchers and four 324mm torpedo tubes. This weapons suite makes the Strazh a formidable enemy even for far larger surface ships," the company said.