The battleship 'Balmoral' has gone missing, although it's not lost at all. Dirty Fred and a group of happy scoundrels 'borrow' it to rescue Tom Leven and his im

A young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surfa

On Wednesday 10 December 1941, the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not reques

This book, first published in 1982, brings together for the first time accounts of the fates of some of those extinct monsters of the seas – the battleships.