On August 9, 1780, Spain caused the worst debacle ever experienced by the Royal Navy. Rafael Torres analyzes in his latest ...

Changes in maritime technology, however minor, sometimes have been enough to change the course of history forever. So it was 422 years ago this week that the world witnessed one of those landmark ...

AN officer of the American navy has lately aroused widespread interest in the influence of sea power upon history. For England the subject has a very special significance. Supremacy at sea is the only ...

Picture of the recovery of a Spanish Armada cannon at Streedagh May 1985 by Colin Martin The discovery of the St Peter cannon of the Spanish Armada at Streedagh in 2015 by the Underwater Archaeology ...

Archaeologists plan to discover whether a myth-shrouded plot of land on Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast contains the remains of hundreds of Spanish sailors who drowned when the Armada floundered.

LONDON (Reuters) - A set of 10 hand-drawn, 16th century maps showing the progress of the Spanish Armada that attacked England in 1588, an event that shaped national identity, will remain in the ...

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Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles fought in the English Channel, ...

More than four centuries after it sank to the sea bed, the secrets of a Spanish Armada wreck are being uncovered off the west coast of Ireland. A number of cannons, timbers and an anchor from La ...