Video of a US submarine sinking an Iranian warship looked "remarkably similar" to a 1945 US submarine attack, a World War II expert said.

The IRIS Dena was headed back to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India, where it participated in a multination naval exercise.

India sees itself a security provider in the Indian Ocean. On Wednesday, it couldn’t save even its own guest.

He said: “Even at the time, the disaster nationally was yet another tragedy of WWI, which was buried in the terrible things happening in the trenches. This happened three years after the Titanic. The Titanic took two hours and 20 minutes to sink, so a lot more drama happened on board than in the 20 minutes it took for Luistiana to sink.

A former Royal Navy officer will face a court martial following the sinking of a New Zealand ship she was commanding.

The SS United States, the cruise liner that once ruled the waves, is being prepared for deliberate sinking off the Florida coast in the coming weeks

US Central Command says it sank an Iranian Jamaran-class corvette in the Gulf of Oman during coordinated strikes targeting Iranian military infrastructure.