A red dawn broke over the Pacific as the Maya sliced through choppy waters, her steel hull gleaming with menace. At the outbreak of World War 2, this Takao-class heavy cruiser embodied Imperial ...

Gautam Hazarika explores the hesitation and the fate of the Indian soldiers and officers who did not join the INA in his ...

The “tin can” myth: why Germans underestimated British destroyers – The man-overboard incident that separated Glowworm from ...

The U.S. Navy’s Lexington-class battlecruisers were authorized in 1916 as America’s answer to the global naval arms race.

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

Twenty passengers were forced to leave a British Airways flight before take-off when extreme heat made the aircraft too heavy to launch into the air. The passengers were removed from the aircraft in ...

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Terry Reid, a British powerhouse once courted by rock titans Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died. He was 75. Reid's death was confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday, Aug.

A British veteran has spoken about how he witnessed Japan's wartime surrender up close as a 20-year-old sailor. Reg Draper was off Japan's coast on the HMS Duke of York when the captain announced the ...

Among the different types of motorcycles, cruiser motorcycles are the ones that are picked by riders for long-distance and comfortable riding. Back in the day, a custom motorcycle was called a cruiser ...

The Open Champion (or British Open, if you prefer) is one of the most fascinating tests in all of professional golf, and this week will be no different at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. No ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

The severed bow of the famed American warship USS New Orleans has been found by researchers during seafloor mapping operations in the Pacific Ocean. The bow was discovered resting about 675 meters ...