by Matthew Wright | Apr 23, 2026 | History Article
Britain’s naval relationship with the United States during the First World War was surprisingly complex. On the one hand the US began constructing naval forces of scale to rival Britain’s, a process that gained diplomatic import and has been referred to by historians...
by Matthew Wright | Dec 4, 2025 | History Article
One of the major challenges faced by the combatants of both sides during the First World War was finding submarines underwater. The issue was particularly important for the Allies because Germany turned to U-boats as an equaliser. If they could whittle down British...
by Matthew Wright | Jul 19, 2022 | History Article
The naval treaty of 6 February 1922 negotiated in Washington – technically the ‘Five Power Treaty’, but afterwards simply called the ‘Washington Treaty’ – included lists of the ships that signatories were required to dispose of. The longest was British. A...
by Matthew Wright | Jan 26, 2022 | History Article
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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