The United Kingdom has sent the HMS Anson, an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, to Australia as part of the AUKUS partnership’s rotational submarine presence initiative. The submarine departed from its base at Faslane, Scotland, and made its first port call in Gibraltar en route to the Indo-Pacific region under the framework of Submarine Rotational Force–West (SRF-West). The move reflects longstanding cooperation through the Australia–UK–US (AUKUS) security pact, which includes comm

This is extremely rare colour footage of the battle-cruiser HMS Hood and its crew at sea in 1939. Two years later, the ship and some of the men in this footage were at the bottom of the Denmark Strait after a fateful encounter with Hitler's flagship, Bismarck. Eighty years ago today, the mighty Hood was sunk with the loss of 1,415 lives - just three men survived - as she and brand-new battleship HMS Prince of Wales attempted to stop the Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen raiding Britain's supply l