Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. ... It made the crew on these spectacular ships feel safer from attack. The US Navy continued to use dazzle into World War Two, ...

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study.. Instead, the ...

As rusting war-era ships decay on the seafloor, their toxic cargoes pose an urgent but often overlooked environmental risk.

A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship in 1917. Henrietta Sandford, from Helston, shared diaries and letters ...

The ship's bell from a Word War One wreck has been raised from the sea bed off the Isles of Scilly. The USS Jacob Jones was the first US Navy destroyer to be lost to enemy action when it was ...

The Royal Navy warship caught fire and sank in fewer than eight minutes, according to CBS News partner the BBC, with just 70 sailors surviving. In total, 524 sailors died when the ship sank near ...