Rodger offers close attention to the somewhat impossible act of prognostication that is ship design over these 130 years.

Admiral Nakhimov is now on track to become the Russian Navy's flagship, as Moscow has scrapped plans to see its sister ship Pyotr Velikiy undergo a similarly expensive refit.

From the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship Gribshunden, archaeologists have uncovered a rare glimpse into the naval power of the late Middle Ages. This warship, lost in 1495, carried an ...