Warspite found a Soviet submarine and began to track her, quickly identifying the boat as an Echo II nuclear cruise missile submarine (SSGN). The Project 675 submarine boat displaced 5900 tons ...

Key Point: The shells of Warspite and other Allied naval guns followed the torpedo boats back through the smoke. One of Warspite’s scored a hit and instantly sank a trawler. To HMS Warspite went the ...

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 The ceremony at Devonport was a celebration of Plymouth's ...

During the Battle of Calabria, HMS Warspite engaged the Italian flagship Giulio Cesare from more than 15 miles away. The hit triggered a violent blast aboard the battleship and helped force an Italian ...

After two world wars, HMS Warspite was decommissioned and sent for dismantling, but a storm tore her loose from her tugs in 1947. She ran aground near Saint Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and resisted ...

Prussia Cove was for the most part unheard of, until in 1947 the famous battleship HMS Warspite broke her tow whilst on the way to the ship breakers, and went aground on the hazardous rocks. A piece ...

Image caption, Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 Image caption, The ceremony at Devonport was a ...

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 One of Britain's "deadliest ships" has been honoured at a ...