As part of its recently published strategic direction, "Kurs Marine," the German Navy is considering Joint Strike Missile – ...

Torpedo boats rose to prominence toward the end of the 19th century, when torpedoes proved an effective means of sinking large, often well-armed and armored water vessels.

85 years ago, 11 Sunderland children set sail for Canada as they fled to safety - only two came home. Having waved goodbye to ...

On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...

On March 24, 1916, the French steamer Sussex was struck by a German torpedo during a cross-Channel voyage, initially mistaken ...

Years of the Lusitania Museum and Old Head Signal Tower’ celebrates a decade since the Old Head Signal Tower restoration has ...

There was a further stipulation: Those torpedo boats, battleships, and other vessels the German navy was permitted to retain couldn't be any heavier than 200 tons in the case of the former, and ...

While Hubert Smoak succumbed to combat wounds on land that day, his distant cousins, Master Sgt. William Roy Smoak, 40, and Pfc. Crandell Whaley Smoak, 25, died at sea when German torpedo boats ...

Ed Kelly, a World War Two veteran who lives in St Ives, was presented with a VE80 Mess photo from RAF Wyton to thank him for his service.

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ships that brought oil and other foreign resources from their far-flung ...

It was April 24, 1945, and the Davis had just been torpedoed by a German U-boat, becoming the last warship sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. “The torpedo’s sudden impact was quite a shock ...