Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

It was a frigid December night in the Arctic Sea. Aboard the Scharnhorst, the forecast of harsh weather had everyone on edge.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...

Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...

Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector ...

Romans Athena bowl: A silver and gold vessel of the goddess and her owl, buried in a German forest 2,000 years ago Archaeology Gold sword scabbard discovered under toppled tree in Norway was likely ...