The grey skies above Chatham Naval memorial were appropriate for the sombre mood as Medway commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Jutland yesterday. The memorial in the Great Lines Heritage park, ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

For thousands of years, naval battles have been some of the most decisive military conflicts. Controlling the seas allows victors to dominate ports, trade routes, and encircle opponents. With such ...

The biggest naval confrontation of World War I, the Battle of Jutland in 1916, also has the distinction of being the first battle during which a plane was launched from an aircraft carrier. The pilot ...

In May 1916, Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought ...

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