The HMS Ark Royal gained a near-mythical reputation as an unsinkable carrier early in World War II, surviving multiple German claims of her destruction. That illusion was shattered on November 13, ...

A 103-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant commander has been sharing stories with Guernsey's Lieutenant Governor of his service ...

When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

German U-boats had been laying waste to American vessels ... sank eight cargo vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. German submarine commanders called this period eine glückliche Zeit—“a happy ...