This is the fifth and final post in a series commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionPart III: SMS Friedrich Der GrossePart IV: HMS Iron DukeThese ships also participated in the battle:HMS BarhamHMS WarspiteHMS New ZealandHMS CanadaHMS...
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Part IV of a five part series on the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionPart III: SMS Friedrich Der GrosseHMS Iron Duke was the second battleship named.
Part III of a four part series to commemmorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionThe first eight German dreadnoughts followed the naming.
This is the second of a four part series commemmorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowHMS Lion was the first of the Big Cats (also known as the "Splendid Cats"), and the sixth battlecruiser constructed for the Royal Navy. The...
Part I of a four part Jutland Series, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.German shipbuilding was deeply affected not only by the construction of Dreadnought,.
HMS Warspite was the second of the magnificent Queen Elizabeth class battleships. She carried 8 15" guns, displaced 28000 tons, and could make nearly 25 knots. Warspite and her sisters.
Lord Fisher was not content with the invention of Dreadnought, the all big gun battleship which would render the fleets of the world obsolete. The mission of the Royal Navy was not limited to the destruction of the enemy battlefleet. Fisher was worried that smaller,...
Chile was the final entrant into the South American battleships race. Chile ordered Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane from Armstrong-Whitworth in 1911. The ships were very similar to the excellent.
Recall that in the early 1910s Canada considered contributing three Queen Elizabeth class battleships that would be owned and crewed by Canadians but serve in the Royal Navy. Winston Churchill's.
Winston Churchill was rather fond of Oliver Cromwell. While he was First Sea Lord, Churchill repeatedly tried to recognize Cromwell by naming a battleship in his honor. Churchill settled on one of the Queen Elizabeth class, a squadron of powerful new fast battleships that would...