Originally commissioned by the Chilean Navy as a super dreadnought battleship, the incomplete vessel was seized by the ...

ALTHOUGH she was built in peacetime, the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle had a busy life on the ocean. Laid down at Harland and Wolff in 1942 while World War Two was still raging, it was March 1946 before ...

The awesome starboard view of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, right, was sent in by Mike Nolan but he has little information about the occasion. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, ...

A COVENTRY man who survived the sinking of the illfated HMS Eagle has died at the age of 84. John George Clempson, known to everyone as Jack, died on Tuesday at Keresley Wood residential home after a ...

TRADITION, nostalgia and belonging - they are the key words used in the centenary celebrations of the Royal Naval Reserve on Merseyside. The RNR is embarking on a series of events to mark the occasion ...

Former Royal Marine and Afghanistan war veteran JJ Chalmers brought a unique perspective to the story of the Dunkirk evacuations last night. Mr Chalmers sustained severe injuries in a bomb blast while ...

Lend lease to the United States Navy 1943. His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the workings of an aircraft carrier with the aircraft etc ...

I was standing in the shade of No.1 starboard 6" gun, fifty feet above the waterline. The Eagle shuddered with four distinct lurches. For some reason I thought we had hit a school of whales! The deck ...

My father told me of the time when he was torpedoed off the Eagle in the Med. He was below decks and said his feet didn't touch the ladder because of the press of men trying to reach the decks. He ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Many of the carriers here were early efforts, although even these compared unfavorably to their competitors. Some were sunk; others were kept away from the main areas ...