BBC

HMS Warspite centenary marked at Devonport Dockyard

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 The ceremony at Devonport was a celebration of Plymouth's ...
The National Interest

Warspite: How a British Nuclear Submarine Smashed Into a Russian Missile Sub

Warspite found a Soviet submarine and began to track her, quickly identifying the boat as an Echo II nuclear cruise missile submarine (SSGN). The Project 675 submarine boat displaced 5900 tons ...
The National Interest

HMS Warspite: The Battleship That Fired First on D-Day

Key Point: The shells of Warspite and other Allied naval guns followed the torpedo boats back through the smoke. One of Warspite’s scored a hit and instantly sank a trawler. To HMS Warspite went the ...
Daily Express

Royal Navy came seconds from nuclear disaster after secret ‘collision with Soviet sub’

The incident came just six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It involved HMS Warspite, the third British nuclear-powered submarine ...
BBC

HMS Warspite centenary marked at Devonport Dockyard

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was among 30,000 people who watched the launch of HMS Warspite on 26 November 1913 One of Britain's "deadliest ships" has been honoured at a ...