A historic Fleet Air Arm squadron was this week reformed to test the latest weapons and sensors. First established in 1943, the reformed … Read More

As Axis forces fell from the Cretan skies and emerged from the Aegean, a battered and weary Anglo-Commonwealth force could only hold … Read More

Plans to land a 200-foot long landing craft tank – the last known remaining D-Day landing craft – on Southsea beach towards … Read More

It’s photo of the week time from Britain at War. Our archive image for late October is of the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. … Read More

Defence secretary Gavin Williamson has demanded an immediate investigation into fresh allegations of illegal salvage from Royal Navy … Read More

The venerable paddle steamer, PS Medway Queen, is perhaps best remembered for the part she played during the evacuation of British … Read More

This footage from British Pathé shows one of the 78 convoys to sail to and from the Soviet ports between August 1941 and May 1945. … Read More

This incredible footage from British Pathé (no sound) shows the battlecruiser HMS Hood as she passes through the Panama Canal. The … Read More

The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, left her home port, Portsmouth, last weekend for exercises in the … Read More

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s (RFA) newest replenishment tanker, the fourth and final of the Tide-class vessels, arrived in Falmouth … Read More