Tag Archives: navy
An overview of the decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada
The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of Flanders.
An overview of Sir Francis Drake and the ‘Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard’
On the 29th April 1587, Sir Francis Drake entered the Bay of Cádiz and attacked the Spanish naval fleet in an event known as ‘Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard’.
Why did the Germans scuttle their fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919?
On the 21st June 1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the German High Seas naval fleet in Scapa Flow, a large natural harbor in the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
The launch of the Dreadnought
On the 10th February 1906 the British King, Edward VII, launched HMS Dreadnought – a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete.
Why was there a Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911?
The German gunboat SMS Panther was sent to the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Second Moroccan Crisis.
The German naval bombardment of Scarborough in WW1
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
The sinking of the Lusitania and its role in the First World War
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland on 7 May 1915.
What triggered the Russo-Japanese War? Overview of the attack on Port Arthur.
On the 8th February 1904, the Russian-controlled Port Arthur was attack by Japanese torpedos.
Russian mutiny on the battleship Potemkin
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied on the 27th June 1905, an uprising that was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film.
