The largest battleship ever built by a European power, the Tirpitz spent most of World War II anchored in Norwegian fjords forcing the Allies to divert entire fleets just to contain the threat she represented....

The largest warship in the world for over twenty years and the pride of the Royal Navy! The HMS Hood was sent to intercept the Bismarck in May 1941 and was destroyed in seconds at...

Launched in 1939 and sunk nine days into her first and only combat mission. The Bismarck destroyed HMS Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait on May 24, 1941, killing 1,418 of her 1,421...

The sister ship of HMS Nelson and the only capital ship of World War II confirmed to have torpedoed another battleship! HMS Rodney delivered one of the most decisive broadsides in naval history on May...

One of the most distinctive battleships ever built: the HMS Nelson. She was the product of a design team forced to fit nine 16-inch guns into a 35,000-ton Washington Treaty limit, resulting in an unmistakable...

The only surviving Type VIIC U-boat you can visit in Germany, U-995 served with the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic before being handed to the Royal Norwegian Navy postwar and preserved since 1971...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot Great Lakes taconite freighter, the largest and fastest ship on the lakes when she launched in 1958, before vanishing beneath Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, with all...