When I was a boy the picture on my bedroom wall was not of Bobby Moore in his England football shirt or Ursula Andress in her bikini. It was a print of British battleships.

After France signed an armistice in June 1940, Britain feared the French Navy could be seized or forced into Axis service. At ...

Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...

British Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon is now well underway for the Eastern Mediterranean , steaming towards the region as the Iran crisis worsens. And not before time - Dragon is one of six warfighting ...

Many people think Britain has never been invaded since 1066. They recall Shakespeare’s lines about the sea being like “a moat ...

‘We should have seen this coming’: Why a Royal Navy ship still hasn’t reached Cyprus after Iran strike - HMS Dragon is still docked in Portsmouth and is not expected to sail until next week ...

The assertion from President Trump that our current Prime Minister is no Winston Churchill is hardly shocking. After all, in ...

From Le Bon Marché in Paris to Macy’s in New York, we delve into the history of the world’s most iconic department stores.

The sinking of the IRIS Dena by an American submarine in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Sri Lanka marks the first time the US sunk a ship with a torpedo after World War Two. What are torpedoes, ...

IN my last letter to The National I rather sarcastically suggested how our Prime Minister could appease President Trump.

Montgomery County resident Sandra Blue was the lucky recipient of one of three iPad minis recently given away by the Sandhill Regional Library System for her participation in the library services ...

China and the US are two imperialist powers jockeying for position, but the Iran War proves that Beijing is not in the same ...