Concerned about Russia's growing influence in Korea, three British warships sailed into Geomun-do, a small group of islands off the southern coast of Korea, on April 15, 1885, and began a two-year ...

She was launched at Limehouse in 1694 and served in the Caribbean and Mediterranean before her disastrous final voyage. ... The four ships - HM Firebrand, HMS Association, HMS Eagle, and HMS Romney - ...

The Ministry of Defence is in secret negotiations with an American salvage firm over a sunk 17th-century British warship, the Sussex, and its cargo of gold and silver thought to be worth billions.