During the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, British and Italian fleets maneuvered to protect convoys and gain control of the central Mediterranean. The transcript follows Admiral Andrew Cunningham’s ...

Key Point: The shells of Warspite and other Allied naval guns followed the torpedo boats back through the smoke. One of Warspite’s scored a hit and instantly sank a trawler. To HMS Warspite went the ...

Today in a special collaboration with World of Warships our favourite naval historian Dan Snow ranks his favourite battleships of WW2. From the gigantic Yamato, to the humble yet deadly HMS Warspite.

At the end of 1939 I had said farewell to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and in January 1940 set forth to join my first ship, HMS Southampton, a cruiser of 10,000 tons undergoing a short refit at ...