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 ...
Naval technology
The Catapult Fighters
For two years during World War II, from 1941 to 1943, the Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ships, assisted by Fighter Catapult Ships of the Royal Navy, played an important role in ...
The Maxim was the Maximum
THE MAXIM GUN was adopted by the Royal Navy in the 1880s. It was used with good effect in the Benin Campaign (modern Biafra) in 1896. The two seamen of ...