managed this Wednesday evening to recover the range finder of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sunk in the River Plate since December 1939. The salvage team headed by experienced Uruguayan ...

The "Graf Spee" was one of the first ships in the German navy to be equipped with radar - the rangefinder - which allowed it to measure the distance between the craft and its target, thereby ...

Admiral Sir Victor Alfred Trumper 'VAT' Smith led the first mass torpedo strike against a major warship at sea, survived ...

As of 2024, colossal ships like the Seawise Giant and Oasis Class cruise liners highlight remarkable engineering feats in global trade and luxury travel. These vessels range from oil tankers to ...

Last month, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska's Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone. On July 6 ...

The Philippines withdrew its Coast Guard vessel from a South China Sea shoal that’s recently been at the center of tensions with Beijing. BRP Teresa Magbanua “was compelled to return to port ...

The German battleship Bismarck, though often mythologized as a powerful warship, had significant flaws in design and capability. Built after the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles ...

A 300-year-old ship whose loss was controversially blamed on its drunken Irish crew has been found off the coast of Norway. Divers off Mandal, in the far south of the country, thought the wreck ...

Martina Navratilova has won the most WTA singles titles in the Open Era, Serena Williams has won the most Grand Slams, Steffi Graf holds the record for most weeks spent at No 1 in WTA Rankings. But ...