The head of the British... Key Point: Among the nations that sought to upgrade its aging fleet was the Ottoman Empire… After the construction of the Royal Navy’s HMS Dreadnought, navies around ...

The head of the British... Here’s what you need to remember ... While HMS Queen Elizabeth may be the flagship of the Royal Navy, her sister ship HMS Prince of Wales has assumed command of ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

Royal Navy battleships bristling with enormous ... American commanders feared a new war - with their enemy being the British Empire. These are just some of the declassified pages from the once ...

Many men from the Caribbean did join the Merchant Navy, but sailors from the British Empire were paid about ... The Battle of Britain: The Royal Canadian Air Force provided support for the RAF ...

The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family ... Prince Albert (later King George VI) served in the Navy and Army. He was not heir to the throne at the time so was ...

A Royal Navy submarine surfaced just yards from a Russian spy ship in a dramatic show of force to protect British waters. The nuclear-powered HMS Astute emerged from the depths after the Kremlin ...

A British submarine drove a Russian 'spy ship' out of UK waters in a dramatic confrontation over critical undersea cables.

Crew members Sailors from Ice Patrol HMS Protector, A173, and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost ... an outgunned and obsolescent Royal Navy squadron led by Rear Admiral ...

The British navy tracked a Russian spy ship in the English Channel this week ... The ship entered the UK's waters on Monday — the second time it had done so in three months. Two Royal Navy ships were ...

British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a "Russian spy ship" that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin ...

RAF maritime patrol aircraft were deployed, as were two Royal Navy warships and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Proteus to follow it. “Today, I also wanted to confirm to the House that I ...