Category: battleships
The commissioning of Dreadnought set the navies of the world to zero, or close enough. The reasons for this remain unclear. Dreadnought represented no great technical revolution; she was simply larger
The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine. Germany would not be allowed any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep pre-dreadnought vessels of 10000 ton
The service of the French Navy in World War II was undistinguished. As inevitability of German victory in May 1940 became apparent, the French Navy decided to move as many ships as possible first to G
The first USS Louisiana (BB-19) was a vessel of no great note. Commissioned in 1906, Louisiana was one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships. The completion of the British Dreadnought in 1907 render

Naming a battleship is more complicated that it might seem. A dreadnought battleship was more than just a weapon; it represented national power in its purest and most visible form. Names, therefore, c
The battleship building fever that gripped the world in the wake of Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power Upon History extended to small navies as well as large. Of course, small navies couldn’t

Part I Part II Part III On August 10, Goeben faced Turkish shore batteries on one side and British battlecruisers on the other. Admiral Souchon feared that he would be forced to fight the cruisers, th
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