HMS Tiger, launched in 1913, was one of the Royal Navy’s battlecruisers, representing the pinnacle of early 20th-century naval design and ambition. Most…

The USS Macon, a massive rigid airship commissioned by the US Navy, was renowned for its innovative design, allowing it to serve as…

The Liberty Ships were a class of cargo vessels built in the United States during World War II, designed for quick and inexpensive…

The Gneisenau was a German battleship that served as a key instrument in World War II naval operations, undertaking notable missions like Operation…

Operation Catechism was a decisive Royal Air Force (RAF) mission in November 1944, targeting the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in Tromsø, Norway.Utilizing Lancaster…

On May 6, 1956, the USS Wisconsin, a massive Iowa-class battleship, collided with the USS Eaton, a smaller Fletcher-class destroyer, during a training…

The Panama Canal’s history began with an early 20th-century engineering feat, where the United States completed the canal in 1914 after France’s unsuccessful…

In Georgian and Victorian Britain, convicts faced exceptionally grim circumstances, with those imprisoned on prison hulks facing the most severe hardships. Introduced in…

Project Habakkuk was an audacious and innovative British plan during World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a frozen…

The Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted schooner, was found abandoned under mysterious circumstances off the coast of North Carolina in 1921, with its…