Month: May 2016

United Kingdom vs. Germany Prelude and context Since the starting of hostilities, both fleets had been wisely kept out of…

Lion class Battlecruisers (1910) HMS Lion, Princess Royal, Queen Mary Beatty’s “splendid cats” at Jutland were a source of pride…

United Kingdom – Battlecruisers – Indefatigable, Australia, New Zealand Development and design This second-class of battle cruisers (1908 plan) was…

Invincible class Battlecruisers (1907) United Kingdom (1907) – Battlecruisers – Invincible, Indomitable, Inflexible Introduction: The world’s first battlecruisers Cruisers, naturally…

Deutschland class battleships (1906) Germany (1906) Battleships Deutschland, Hannover, Pommern, Schleisen Schleswig-Holstein The last German pre-dreadnoughts The five battleships of…

Admiralty M-class destroyers United Kingdom (1915) Destroyers – 85 Emergency War Construction Programme At the outbreak of war, the Admiralty…

Colossus class Battleships (1906) United Kingdom (1906) HMS Colossus, HMS Hercules HMS Neptune, launched in 1909 experimented with a main…

HMS Neptune (1902) United Kingdom (1908) Battleship A brand new league The Neptune was supposed to be the leading ship…

Bellorophon class battleships United Kingdom (1906) – Bellorophon, Superb, Temeraire Direct successors to the Dreadnought By december 1906, after the…

HMS Dreadnought (1906) United Kingdom (1906) Battleship – 1 built An historical landmark HMS Dreadnought in auld English “fear nothing”,…