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History Articles

Navy General Board was created to help share all aspects of naval history from throughout the ages. Here you will find our collection of history articles. It has come a long way and has something for everyone. Take your time and browse them all!

The origins of the American battlecruiser – part 3: Jutland lessons

by | March 6, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

America’s only battlecruisers,[1] the Lexington class, emerged from ideas flowing through the Naval War College, General Board and other US Navy circles before and during the First World War.[2] As we saw in the previous article, this thinking finally came together...
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Royal Canadian Navy have they missed an opportunity?

by | April 7, 2022 | History Article | 2 Comments

With new vessels on the horizon for the Royal Canadian navy is there something they have missed?

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The origins of the American battlecruiser, part 4: British infusion

by | March 23, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

Designs for the first American battlecruisers, the Lexington class, were developed across several major incarnations during and soon after the First World War. We traced the origins of the American battlecruiser – first as concept, then as designs flowing from the...
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Project 611 Zulu Class Submarines

by | January 15, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

With the conclusion of the Great patriotic war (World War Two), the allies set about rounding up all the advanced technologies the Germans had developed.   What the allies acquired in terms of Naval technology was leaps and bounds ahead of anything the allies had...
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What drove the Flight of the East Asia Squadron

by | April 26, 2025 | History Article | 0 Comments

During my years at school, (sadly now too many years ago to be comforting), Idiscovered the fascination of a naval world before the onset of submersibles and airmachines complicated it. Those brief months of 1914, when the war at sea had a setof rules the ‘gentleman’...
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CSS Manassas : A Hellish Machine

by | September 28, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

From the very onset of the Civil War, the Confederacy knew they were overmatched by the industrial might of the Union. The Union Navy operated with near impunity along the shores of Confederate territory. Seeking a way to challenge this mighty foe, the Confederacy...
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Admiral Kuznetsov: Russia’s Troubled Carrier

by | January 3, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

Russia’s troubled carrier

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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary

by | August 31, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

The Fleet that keeps the navy moving

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The Future Royal Australian Navy

by | June 12, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

An overview on the future composition of the Royal Australian Navy

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Did Admiral Sir John Fisher try to launch a battlecruiser revolution?

by | June 16, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

by Matthew Wright There is no question that Admiral Sir John Fisher, Britain's First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1910 and the effective head of the Admiralty, was instrumental in driving a sea-change in the nature of heavy warships. What has puzzled historians, though, is...
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USS Texas part Two

by | November 28, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

Going on board the USS Texas

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Were Britain’s battleships eggshells? Investigating the loss of HMS Victoria in 1893

by | December 12, 2019 | History Article | 1 Comment

The loss of the battleship HMS Victoria to a ramming accident in June 1893 sent shock waves across the British Empire. As we saw in the last article, she went down remarkably quickly after a collision with the battleship HMS Camperdown. There was very heavy loss of...
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The Sinking of HMS Victoria

by | November 18, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

In many ways the 1890s were the high noontide of Britain’s globe-spanning Empire. It was also when they suffered their worst naval disaster of the late nineteenth century with the sinking of HMS Victoria – and it occurred not as a dramatic outcome of some storm or...
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Speed and armour: Fisher’s battlecruisers vs Admiralty politics

by | December 19, 2024 | History Article | 0 Comments

In 1919 the embittered Admiral Sir John Fisher, former First Sea Lord and the long-standing champion of naval technology, summed up his recent thinking about heavy warships in three words: ‘speed is armour’.[1] The phrase has since been inextricably associated with...
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A Cold War Warrior: A Walkthrough of a Foxtrot Class Submarine

by | April 21, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

By Blair Shaw Looking quite out of place in a tiny marina in the town of Zeebrugge Belgium is the former Russian project 641 NATO code name Foxtrot class submarine B-821. B-821 and her seventy-four other sisters would become one of the most produced post World War 2...
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News and Current Events

A relatively new addition to the Navy General Board website. While we remain focused on sharing history, we also want to examine naval current events that are occuring across the world. This section is still new, but more articles are coming. 

China’s Newest Warship : The Type 55 Destroyer

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

At a time when the United States Navy is struggling to determine the future of its Navy, China has been quietly building up its naval forces. The People’s Liberation Army Navy has risen to be the second largest navy in the world by tonnage. It’s not just quantity that...
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The Navy’s FFG(X) Program : Foreign and Domestic Options

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

The Navy has all but admitted that the Littoral Combat Ships are a flop. Therefore, they have started looking at potential ships to fulfill requirements for a new frigate design known as the FFG(X) Program. Make makes things interesting is that this time the US Navy...
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Why China’s Island Bases are Not a Big Deal

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

Over the past few years, the media has made a big deal of the artificial island bases that China has built in the South China Sea. Several of these islands are well fortified, featuring harbors, airstrips, and formidable land-based weaponry. Some in the media have...
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Canada’s Next Generation Submarine

by | July 19, 2021 | History Article, News | 29 Comments

My own opinion and hypothesis on what class of submarine could become Canada’s next generation submarine

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