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 ...

Archaeologists have set out to discover whether hundreds of Spanish Armada sailors are buried on a plot of land near Dunluce Castle on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast. According to legend, more than ...

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 ...

Four hundred and twenty eight years ago, three Spanish Armada ships en route home from a failed attempt at invading England sank off the Sligo coast at Streedagh Beach, claiming more than 1,100 souls.

LONDON, Jan 27 (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 ...

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, ...

A Spanish Armada cannon is delicately directed through a window at Derry’s Tower Museum ahead of becoming part of a new exhibition. The naval artillery piece was shifted from its original home by a ...

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 country after a museum ...