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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!

HMS Agincourt – The Gin Palace

by | August 28, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

HMS Agincourt, the one ship class dreadnought, was affectionately known amongst her crew as 'The Gin Palace', in a reference to her luxurious fittings and as a corruption of her name, 'A-Gin-Court', pink gin then being a popular drink amongst Royal Navy officers. She...
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German Aircraft Carrier Of World War 1

by | August 6, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

By 1919 the Great War had dragged on for five long blood-soaked years. Even with the USA havingjoined the Allies in 1917, victory had been elusive for any of the combatants. For the two years that hadfollowed that declaration, a flood of war materials had poured from...
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Super Battleships of the World

by | September 1, 2021 | History Article | 1 Comment

Battleships were among the largest, most complex, and most powerful weapons of their day. Combining the largest guns and the thickest armor, they were impressive warships. While battleships were already powerful, some navies sought new designs that were even more...
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Myths about the Montana Class Super Battleships

by | August 5, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

A stretched Iowa with an extra turret. A ship designed to kill the Yamato class. Many myths surround the Montana class, the immensely powerful super battleships of the United States Navy. Designed to be larger and more powerful than any previous dreadnought, these...
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Edwin Moore : A Texas Pirate

by | 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...
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The Soviets Troubled first generation SSBN

by | June 21, 2021 | History Article | 1 Comment

Like most of the first generation boats the Hotels had their issues

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The origins of the Washington Treaty of 1922

by | January 26, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

It is a century since the world’s leading powers negotiated the ‘Washington Treaty’. This agreement of 6 February 1922 – called the ‘Five Power Treaty’ at the time[1] – required signatories to scrap numerous ships, including some as yet unfinished, dictated strict...
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How Britain gained two new battleships from the Washington conference of 1921-22

by | February 8, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

Between 12 November 1921 and 6 February 1922 the world’s major powers met in Washington to resolve a wide range of international issues. Outcomes included a naval treaty – the ‘Five Power Treaty’, afterwards known as the ‘Washington Treaty’ – which ended a naval race...
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How do Torpedoes Damage a Ship?

by | September 15, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Nothing shook warship designers so much as the arrival of the torpedo. Striking the ship below the water line, torpedoes could deliver an incredible amount of explosive power to a part of the warship that is not easily protected. Designers would learn that there was...
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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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Japanese Attack on the United States Coast

by | May 22, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Over the course of the Second World War, the continent of North America was largely spared the destruction seen elsewhere. Just as a moat protects a castle, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans protected the United States. American industry was able to support the war...
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Rudders: Warship Tech

by | January 10, 2021 | History Article | 2 Comments

Rudders. Just about every warship has them, but rudders vary considerably from one design to the next. Extraordinarily little thought is given to these devices that are hidden away from view underwater. However,  rudders are a critical component of warship...
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The Fastest Warships of World War 2

by | June 6, 2019 | History Article | 2 Comments

Do you have the need for speed? The warships in this article certainly do! We have previously done articles about the largest cruisers and the biggest battleships. For this article we are breaking the fastest warships of World War 2 based on class. We will examine the...
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Russia’s Oscar class & the Kursk Tragedy

by | February 20, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

Russia’s huge Oscar class and the tragic loss of Kursk

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A look at British B.VIII naval gun machinery and variants

by | October 8, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

By the early twentieth century one of the problems the British had with their heavy naval guns was that existing gun machinery could not elevate or depress the guns quickly enough to compensate for the roll of the ship. In some conditions the turntables could not...
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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. 

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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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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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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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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