by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 2, 2022 | History Article
The General Belgrano started life as the USS Phoenix , a Brooklyn class light cruiser and named for the capital of Arizona. She was ordered on February 13 1929 with the contract being awarded to the New York Ship building company of Camden New Jersey on August...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Mar 24, 2022 | History Article
Logistics is the key to victory in war, if you can cut your enemy supply lines and maintain your own you can effectively reduce or eliminate the enemies ability to continue hostilities.Since before biblical times waring peoples, tribes and nations have laid siege to...
by Matthew Wright | Feb 8, 2022 | History Article
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...
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...
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