Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

This image shows four gun turrets on the USS Nevada as seen Monday, March 24, by NOAA Ocean Exploration researchers. The ship ...

On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...

The French battleship Bouvet was sunk during the Battle of Canakkale (Gallipoli Campaign) on March 18, 1915, by Turkish troops, causing a major defeat for the allied forces including Britain and ...

THUSS Nevada is famous for being “the only battleship able to get underway ... USS Nevada was towed to sea off the Hawaiian islands and sunk by gunfire and torpedoes,” the command reports.