Submarines and aircraft carriers embody the offensive spirits of their nations in very different ways. Aircraft carriers bring "4.5 acres of sovereign American territory" anywhere they go. And ...
A former nuclear hunter-killer submarine which is to be the centrepiece of a new Cold War museum in Plymouth could be opened to the public as early as next year – but a visitor centre could take up to ...
The black and white snaps were taken in 1939 and show Royal Naval biplanes coming a cropper while practising take-offs and landings on HMS Courageous, a converted battlecruiser. Commodore Edwin ...
My father John was in the Navy from the age of 14 on the HMS Courageous which was a n early battle ship converted to an aircraft carrier, it was the first Naval ship to be sunk in September 1939, many ...
In the years leading up to the conflict the Dockyard had also been responsible for the refuelling and refitting of the Royal Navy’s Nuclear submarines which were sent to the Falklands: HMS Conqueror, ...