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 Allied squadron’s surprise attack ended with the loss of several Italian cruisers and destroyers, as well as the crippling of the pride of their fleet, the battleship Vittorio Veneto. On April 7, ...

The centrepiece of the museum is an impressive model of the battleship “Yamato,” which provides visitors with a close-up look at one of the most famous ships in Japanese naval history. The museum also ...

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 ...

Battleship North Carolina will be lit with spring colors from April 3-6 to celebrate the N.C. Azalea Festival. The lights will be illuminated from 7:30-9 p.m. and can best be viewed from downtown ...