It was the HMS Warspite, a veteran warship of both world wars nearly destroyed months earlier by German warplanes in the Mediterranean. It not only needed emergency repairs at the Puget Sound ...

Warspite found a Soviet submarine and began to track her, quickly identifying the boat as an Echo II nuclear cruise missile submarine (SSGN). The Project 675 submarine boat displaced 5900 tons ...

Clearly as much fire power as possible was required for all this and WARSPITE now found herself proceeding through the Straits of Gibraltar en route for Malta. Our first assignment was to cover ...

Between August and October, We put to sea only three times, mainly covering convoys to Malta. Enemy battleships ... and two sister ships of the Warspite, HMS Barham and HMS Valiant.

Prussia Cove was for the most part unheard of, until in 1947 the famous battleship HMS Warspite broke her tow whilst on the way to the ship breakers, and went aground on the hazardous rocks.

To HMS Warspite went the honor of being the first ship to open fire on D-Day, with her shells pummeling a German gun battery that showed signs of life.At 5:30 AM the whole bombardment fleet roared ...

The greatest name in the history of the Royal Navy in the 20th Century will be resurrected in the 21st. The third next-generation nuclear deterrence submarine will be named HMS Warspite ...