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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!

Skegs? What do they do? – Warship Tech

by ChrisKnupp | August 22, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Skegs are an unusual feature of warship construction. Some warships had them, others did not. Some warships buried only a few of their shafts inside of skegs, others buried all of them. This seemingly random use of skegs has made them the subject of considerable...

Aircraft launching devices of the Imperial Japanese Navy Vol 1A – Flying-off platforms

by Guest Writer | March 12, 2023 | History Article | 0 Comments

By Joseph Ed. Low, and Sander Kingsepp This is the first of a series of articles that explores the history of aircraft launching devices used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The series will start with flying-off platforms and will eventually also cover catapults....

The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Part 2: the air attack

by Matthew Wright | December 6, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

At 5.35 pm on 8 December 1941 the battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse, with supporting destroyers, left Singapore to attack a Japanese seaborne invasion force that was landing in Malaya. By the early afternoon of 10 December, both ships had been sunk,...

Edwin Moore : A Texas Pirate

by ChrisKnupp | June 12, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Edwin Ward Moore was a great many things in life. An officer in the United States Navy, A commodore in the Republic of Texas Navy , and was even labeled a Texas pirate by Sam Houston himself. He was the only commander to ever lead wind driven wooden sailing ships in...

What the Second London Naval Treaty ‘escalator clause’ Really Meant

by Matthew Wright | October 9, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

One of the common misconceptions in naval history is the idea that the so-called 'escalator clause' of the Second London Naval Treaty - which allowed main gun calibre to automatically revert to 16-inch if any signatory failed to ratify the treaty - also enabled agreed...

HMS Vanguard: Britain’s Last and Greatest Battleship

by Matthew Wright | January 12, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Britain’s last, largest and fastest battleship, HMS Vanguard, was commissioned in May 1946.[1] She was technically the best battleship the British ever built, but was completed too late for the Second World War, never tested in combat, and entered service at a time of...

The First Submarine of the Civil War:The Story of “Alligator Junior”

by Guest Writer | June 3, 2024 | History Article | 0 Comments

Chuck Veit(www.chuckveitbooks.com) excerpted from the author’s bookNatural Genius:Brutus de Villeroi and the U. S. Navy’s First Submarine We are taught that USS Holland (SS-1) in 1900 was the first modern submarine in the U.S. Navy. This is true—but this was not...

Triple Turrets vs. Three-Gun Turrets : Quick Read

by ChrisKnupp | January 13, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Perhaps one of the most common simplifications when discussing warships occurs when discussing their turret styles. For instance, a battleship might be described as having twin turrets, triple turrets, or even quadruple turrets. This of course refers to the number of...

Is the submarine the perfect stealth warship?

by Matthew Wright | July 23, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

Over a century ago, Admiral Sir John Fisher (1841-1920) – one of the main forces behind both the dreadnought and the battlecruiser – declared that both were obsolete. The ideal warship of the future, he insisted, was the submarine – the perfect stealth warship that...

The United States Navy, Albert Michelson, and the ‘aether’

by Matthew Wright | October 5, 2025 | History Article | 0 Comments

One day in January 1879 a 25-year old physics instructor at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis began experiments with a curious apparatus set up along the north sea-wall of the academy grounds. This consisted of a rapidly spinning mirror, set up some 2000...

Largest Cruisers of World War 2

by ChrisKnupp | July 16, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

After the success of our article on the largest battleships of all time, we received a lot of requests for a similar article on cruisers. So without further delay, Navy General Board presents the twelve largest cruisers of World War 2 ! 16. USS Wichita (13,015 Long...

Eggshells and hammers: Fisher’s last battlecruisers

by Matthew Wright | April 5, 2025 | History Article | 0 Comments

In 1919 an embittered Admiral Sir John Fisher published a trenchant criticism of the British Admiralty’s latest heavy warship. He did not name her, but he didn’t have to: there was only one. To Fisher, HMS Hood had too much weight devoted to armour. ‘And so bang went...

Aircraft Launching Devices of the Imperial Japanese Navy: Vol 1B – Flying-Off Platforms on Wakamiya and Yamashiro

by Guest Writer | March 27, 2023 | History Article | 0 Comments

By Joseph Ed. Low, and Sander Kingsepp. This is the second of a series of articles that explores the history of aircraft launching devices used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) that will be featured on the NGB (Naval General Board) website. The series started with...

What drove the Flight of the East Asia Squadron

by Andy South | 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’...

The Future Royal Australian Navy

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | June 12, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

An overview on the future composition of the Royal Australian Navy

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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.

The Navy’s FFG(X) Program : Foreign and Domestic Options

by ChrisKnupp | 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...

Canada’s Next Generation Submarine

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | 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

Why China’s Island Bases are Not a Big Deal

by ChrisKnupp | 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...

China’s Newest Warship : The Type 55 Destroyer

by ChrisKnupp | 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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Skegs? What do they do? – Warship Tech

Aircraft launching devices of the Imperial Japanese Navy Vol 1A – Flying-off platforms

The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Part 2: the air attack

Edwin Moore : A Texas Pirate

What the Second London Naval Treaty ‘escalator clause’ Really Meant

HMS Vanguard: Britain’s Last and Greatest Battleship

The First Submarine of the Civil War:The Story of “Alligator Junior”

Triple Turrets vs. Three-Gun Turrets : Quick Read

Is the submarine the perfect stealth warship?

The United States Navy, Albert Michelson, and the ‘aether’

Largest Cruisers of World War 2

Eggshells and hammers: Fisher’s last battlecruisers

Aircraft Launching Devices of the Imperial Japanese Navy: Vol 1B – Flying-Off Platforms on Wakamiya and Yamashiro

What drove the Flight of the East Asia Squadron

The Future Royal Australian Navy

The Navy’s FFG(X) Program : Foreign and Domestic Options

Canada’s Next Generation Submarine

Why China’s Island Bases are Not a Big Deal

China’s Newest Warship : The Type 55 Destroyer

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