On December 31st, 1942, six British destroyers charged directly at a German heavy cruiser and pocket battleship in the Arctic ...

Nothing short of an act of war will cause the British Navy to interfere with the sailing of two Egyptian destroyers now loading ammunition and other stores at Portsmouth harbor, a Royal Navy spokesman ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German battleships closed in at more than at thirty knots. The British destroyers attempted to lay smoke to cover the carrier’s withdrawal, but it was too late.

Special precautions were ordered by British security authorities in Haifa today as two refugee ships carrying more than 1,300 Jewish immigrants arrived in the harbor under escort of several destroyers ...

Key Points and Summary - In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster ...