Can we imagine a scenario in which two titans of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese battleship Yamato, would come into conflict?Difficult, but not impossible. Had the ...

The Tirpitz’ Specifications. Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built by Germany. Its main armament consisted of eight 15-inch guns ...

The new plan by German high command was to use the mega-battleship to ravage British Arctic convoys delivering desperately needed military aid to the Soviet Union. This plan utterly failed for ...

There was a further stipulation: Those torpedo boats, battleships, and other vessels the German navy was permitted to retain couldn't be any heavier than 200 tons in the case of the former, ...

Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf Spee during World War II.He is buried in Argentina’s National Cemetery in Buenos Aires, the city where he ...