In 1941, HMS Victorious, an imposing, Illustrious-class aircraft carrier, joined the hunt for the notorious German battleship ...

In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...

Kiel is a German city closely linked to the sea and, specifically, to the naval military history, first of Prussia and then of Germany. The Kiel Naval Base was established in 1864 to house ships of ...

THE BISMARCK EPISODE (219 pp.)—Captain Russell Grenfell — Macmillan ($3). It was the Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton ...

WHEN the German battleship Bismarck sank British battleship HMS Hood on May 24, 1941, it generated calls for revenge, sparking one of the great sea chases of the war — the hunt for the Bismarck.

Map adapted from Ludovic Kennedy’s ‘Pursuit’ (1974). Sixty years ago, on Sunday, 18 May 1941, Admiral Lutjens took the battleship Bismarck, the pride of the German Navy, out to sea from Gdynia in the ...

A composite of an aerial view of HMS Dido and other Royal naval ships docked at Copenhagen harbour, Denmark. Many German vessels also surrendered to the Allies in Copenhagen, including the Heavy ...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most ...

Expected to be snapped up for as much as £100,000 when auctioned next month are the medals of one of just five naval aviators to survive the Channel Dash. Chief Petty Officer ‘Don’ Bunce earned the ...