Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

The Japanese Yamato-class battleships were the most significant vessels ever to steam the high seas. They were gargantuan ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

Don’t you want me to die in battle?” Hiroshima City resident Reiji Fujimoto, 93, recalled the evening in 1945 when his father ...

About 300 people attended a memorial service Monday to remember the crew of the battleship Yamato, who died when the U.S.

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that ...

America’s largest military shipbuilder has signed a deal with a South Korean company that experts say could be a big step in ...

The biggest cruise ship in the world today is nothing short of a floating city. The Icon of the Seas weighs in at 248,663 tonnes and stretches 365 metres from bow to stern. At three times the ...

USS Iowa (SSN-797), the 24th submarine of the Virginia-class, was commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday. The 7,800-ton nuclear attack boat is at least the ...

The 377-foot vessel can dive to depths of more than 800 feet below the surface and maneuver at speeds of over 25 knots.