The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Up until World War II, these seven countries led the way in battleship construction. The late 1930s promised a renewed era of battleship construction, similar in some ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

Summary: This article traces the evolution and significance of steel line-of-battleships from the 1880s, culminating in the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought of 1905, which epitomized naval dominance ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...