But it was the ship’s more nefarious purposes that prompted a rare display of British naval power on Jan 20, when the Yantar was confronted by a British warship, HMS Somerset, and patrol vessel ...
Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in ...
If the Germans could use their brand-spanking new navy to stop that, sinking ships and cutting off supply lines, they could starve Britain out of the war. So, the British Navy had one clear goal ...