For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods t[...]

The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the [...]

From lightning-fast engagements and bloody, smoke-clouded naval battles to survival on the storm-lashed seas, the ongoing saga of Nathaniel Drinkwater is an action-packed journey through the glorious age of the woodhulled sailing warships, when courageous young men fought the balttles that chaged th[...]

Presents the extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries - some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood who are still renowned, others who are almost unknown.[...]