HMS Onslow and her convoy were on the brink of annihilation in the freezing black void of Arctic waters. Robert Sherbrooke’s small destroyer was ambushed by a massive German heavy cruiser, her opening ...

December 31st, 1942. As German heavy cruisers closed in on a small Allied convoy in the Barents Sea, the destroyer HMS Achates made a desperate charge. She laid a smokescreen and drew the enemy’s fire ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Nazi government needed time to negotiate the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which allowed new battleship construction. Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of ...