Talk about timing. In January, 2022, author Ranulph Fiennes released his new book, Shackleton: The Biography. The book is another treatment of the exploits of the famed Irish adventurer, Ernest Shackleton….
Mishaps and malfunctions happen during military training exercises. Sometimes, these events lead to military aircraft making emergency landings at civilian airports and giving travelers something to look at. However, in…
On May 27, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by the Royal Navy after a three-day chase. Three days earlier, Germany destroyed the HMS Hood, the pride of the…
The show-stopping pinnacle of battleship that King Edward VII and his ministers had launched on February 10, 1906, was what the world subsequently recognized as the epitome of British technology….
Endurance was a three-masted ship launched in Norway in 1912. Originally christened Polaris, she was built with great hull strength and fitted with a 350-horsepower coal-fired engine to help her…
It’s pretty unbelievable that in a day and age where the ability to project real power is determined by the number of aircraft carriers and support ships in a country’s…
In 1975, a political commissar aboard the Soviet Union’s Burevestnik-class frigate Storozhevoy decided something had to be done about the rampant corruption and theft of the ruling communist party under…
On November 8, 2008, the Navy commissioned USS Freedom (LCS-1). The lead ship in her class, Freedom was designed by Lockheed Martin for shallow water operations like minesweeping, humanitarian relief,…
When the last Perry-class frigate, the USS Simpson, lowered her flag for the last time in 2015, it left only one ship in the active fleet which sank an enemy in combat. The USS Constitution sank an enemy ship, the British HMS G…
While the United States was fighting for its existence, the world kept turning and other countries continued acting in their own self-interest. Just because the United States military was preoccupied…