The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern leader has ever seen.

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

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

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

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

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

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

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.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Ocean Race of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 96 No. 24 (June 1907), p. 493 doi:10.1038 ...

Describes a number of hard fought actions off the French coast just before D-Day, between German torpedo boats and British destroyers and cruisers. The author was a participant. The role of Ultra ...

Background: In the 1990s, congenital anomalies were reported among children whose fathers had served aboard a Norwegian missile torpedo boat (MTB). The Royal Norwegian Navy asked the University of ...

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 ...