by Matthew Wright | Jan 20, 2026 | History Article
The recent announcement from the United States that it would resume building battleships – not the classic big-gun variety of the twentieth century, but a modern concept with advanced technology[1] – came as a surprise at a time when the largest surface combatants...
by Matthew Wright | Oct 5, 2025 | History Article
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...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 5, 2025 | History Article
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...
by ChrisKnupp | Jan 7, 2023 | History Article
Over the years, I have been asked a great many naval history questions by curious readers. It’s actually quite an honor to have people reach out to me and I love getting to chat to people and answering the questions that I can. Even those that escape me are no...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Aug 8, 2022 | History Article
One of the most successful British post war submarines was the Oberon class submarines.Quiet and capable these boats were the backbone of the Royal navy through the 1970’s and 1980’s. Today you will find many of these boats as museums around the world and that’s not...
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