WW1 Naval History

When They Put a P-39 Nose on a Tiny Boat — Japanese Called Them “Devil Boats”

Why PT boat crews stripped guns from crashed P-39 Airacobras during WW2 — and destroyed over 800 Japanese vessels. This[…]

Canadian liner Empress of Ireland On a foggy night on May 29, 1914, the Canadian liner Empress of Ireland was[…]

Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 Today we look in brief at a sometimes overlooked aspect of the First World War, the[…]

HMS Audacious HMS Audacious was the fourth and last King George V-class dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in[…]

First Naval Battle between Ocean Liners In the run up to the First World War, many ocean liners were designed[…]

Battle of Jutland Today we look at the Battle of Jutland, from the start of the shooting to the end[…]

High Seas Fleet Accompanying two books (The The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet and the Story of the[…]

Battle of Jutland A full account of the Battle of Jutland narrated by Admiral Jellicoe’s grandson as part of the[…]

Changed The Tide of Battle When the two greatest Navy’s in the world at the time made for was the[…]

U-89 The German U-boat U89 was on active service during WW1 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.[…]