Prince of Wales could have made an important contribution in the Pacific, had it not faced an impossible task. The Kongos were excellent ships, but no match for a modern battleship. The Japanese ...

The sinking of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images) An illegal Chinese salvage operation seized by Malaysian authorities Sunday is suspected to have looted two iconic ...

Amongst great fanfare and waving of flags the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (HMSPoW ... by one or two shells from the German battleship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait ...

The Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, just across the River Mersey, was the site where the previous HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class battleship, was constructed. Sections of both ...

What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of Wales while evading pursuit across the North Atlantic. -Yet ...