by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Dec 28, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Sitting in a cold windswept harbour on the east coast of Canada is one of the most under rated and over looked and very often under appreciated ships ever to go to sea. Churchill called them Cheap and Nasty, a phrase we usually...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Aug 31, 2021 | History Article
Like many of the world’s navies the auxiliaries play a key role for any naval force large or small, enabling them to remain on station anywhere in the world. Every major navy has an auxiliary force of some kind operating in conjunction with their navies, ship...
by Matthew Wright | Jun 16, 2021 | History Article
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,...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 28, 2021 | History Article
by Matthew Wright One of the received truths of naval history is the idea that HMS Dreadnought of 1905-06 was a game-changer, the ship that divided naval construction between ‘before’ and ‘after’.[1] And in many respects, that is true. She was the first all-big-gun...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 18, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Designed in the 1970’s along side the more numerous Project 667B BD BDR BDRM NATO Delta I II III IV boats, the Project 941 Akula NATO codenamed Typhoon was a radical departure from anything that we have seen before or since. In nearly every design...
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