THE UK’s most remote island measures just five kilometres by three kilometres – yet has a lot to boast about. The ...

In July 2025, the Spanish Navy frigate Méndez Núñez made port calls at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) bases in Yokosuka and Kure.

The Spanish ships were first sighted in the English Channel on 29 July 1588. This was the Spanish Armada, a fleet of armed ships sailing towards England in a crescent formation.

The Armada had set sail from Lisbon in late May with around 130 ships carrying nearly 20,000 soldiers and seamen, along with 2,500 guns. However, a devastating mixture of delays, English naval ...

The drama is set in 1588 during the attack of the Spanish Armada. A young boy - Thomas Harte - and his father have just arrived onboard one of the English ships. They are not expecting to stay ...

The Spanish ships were slower and less well armed than their English counterparts. Delayed by storms that temporarily forced it back to Spain, the Armada did not reach the southern coast of ...

Two men have received awards from King Felipe VI of Spain for their promotion of historical ties between Spain and Ireland.

Armada table sold at auction for over €430,000 A table constructed in part from the wood from the wreck of a Spanish Armada ship from 1588 was sold for €360,000 at Adams Auction, with fees ...

On a frosty and unseasonably sunny Galician morning, the crew of Spanish Armada ship F-105 ESPS Cristóbal Colón, embarked with a detachment of five Royal Australian Navy personnel, departed the ...

The Armada and the Fate of England Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles ...

The Government was accused of creating a “new Spanish Armada” after it was announced that part of the construction work on the Royal Navy’s £1.6 billion new supply ships will be carried out ...