Key Point: She changed naval warfare–forever. State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth century involved a mix of large- and small-caliber weapons. Naval architects believed that ...

The British Royal Navy is building a new class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines. The British subs will have the same missile compartment as the US Navy's new missile subs. The name of ...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...

As an island nation with a global maritime empire, it was vital that Britain had the best navy in the world. But it wasn't enough just to have the most ships. It also had to have the biggest. That was ...