Naval technology

IN 1905 JAPAN, WITH HER VICTORY over the Russian Pacific and Baltic Fleets, had become the major naval power in the Pacific. When HMS Dreadnought was launched in February 1906, ...

IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING their conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had dominated the Mediterranean with their fleets of galleys. For a hundred years they had raged unchecked, subjugating ...

The emergencies of war and the unpreparedness of Britain for a world war have tested the inventiveness of the nation to build new and often quite bizarre weapons. World War ...

‘I have not dwelt on the strategic value of a (RAN) capital ship at Singapore as that is so obvious from our point of view. The presence of the battle ...

THERE ARE SEVERAL MYSTERIES about the design, construction and eventual fate of the British Naval airship R31. Completed at Bedford, England, just before the Armistice in 1918, the R31 Class ...