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 ...

The most famous of the pocket battleships was Admiral Graf Spee. Serving in the South Atlantic as a commerce raider, she sunk nine ships totaling 50,089 GRT between September and December 1939 ...

THE Commodore then stressed the fact—which he was to emphasize again in Germany later that his voyage in the Graf Zeppelin had shown him that speedier ships will be required for regular ...

SAFELY stored in its home hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Graf Zeppelin ... while confident of a rosy future for great aerial ships, did not appear to share the unqualified enthusiasm ...

In some cases, trouble will even follow you off-planet. That's where your ship, the Trailblazer, comes into play. She might be worn out, but she still packs a punch, especially once you've ...

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 ...

China’s coastguard says it has rescued Filipino “personnel” who fell overboard after a Philippine vessel collided with one of its ships near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.