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Prussia Cove was for the most part unheard of, until in 1947 the famous battleship HMS Warspite broke her tow whilst on the way to the ship breakers, and went aground on the hazardous rocks.

A High Court battle over the artefacts on the wreck of a British warship has ruled they should remain with the ship. HMS Victory, was lost in a storm off the Channel Islands in 1744 and found in ...

More than 200 guests attended the celebration of HMS Warspite at Plymouth's Devonport Dockyard. The ship, launched in 1913, holds more honours than any other in British naval history and served in ...

The wreck is a familiar sight to people in the area, as it appears from beneath the sand most winters. ... HMS Warspite ran aground near Prussia Cove whilst being towed to be scrapped in 1947.

The events of November 9, 1968, remain classified by the Ministry of Defence, but several members of the crew on board HMS Warspite have echoed the story told by Mr Ballantyne in the years since.

In July 1940, Admiral Andrew Cunningham led a daring assault with HMS Warspite and a powerful Royal Navy fleet into waters near Italy, aiming to cripple the freshly mobilized Italian Navy before ...