At the time, the backbone of the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet consisted of dozens of dreadnought battleships. The HMS Dreadnought, commissioned in 1906, was the latest in a line of warships ...

In order to further redress the imbalance, the Italians conceived a daring operation to attack British ships directly. They borrowed a page from their own history in World War I, ...

British warships and bombers hunted the ships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, across the North Atlantic. Early on November 12, 1944, 29 Lancaster bombers of the British Royal Air Force took off from their ...

In addition to the eighth British battleships, update 0.11.6 adds a temporary event called Industry Titans where The Chatham, Elswick, and Clydebank shipyards will compete for the right to be ...

The British warships have been painted in the World War I-style "dazzle" manner, which was meant to make the ships harder to track at the time. LPhot Lee Blease/Royal Navy.

And on the upside, the Royal Navy had lost one of its battleships, HMS Barham, to U-boat attack in late November. In anticipation of war with Japan, additional Royal navy warships were headed to ...