The legendary British Admiral Sir John Fisher was the mind behind the Dreadnought. He sought to make all previous battleships obsolete by designing the ship to have unprecedented firepower ...

For the Germans (who had just triumphed over the British off Coronel) it was their worst defeat at sea since the foundation of their navy; for the British it was their greatest victory since ...

This superficially resembled British practice of the day, in which battleships and battlecruisers shared core design elements in order to save time and expense. The Lexingtons were to be a class ...

The British ships on which the brunt of the fighting fell were the battlecruiser fleet and some cruisers and light cruisers, supported by four fast battleships. Among these the losses were heavy.

The British Empire began in the 1500s, under Elizabeth I’s rule. The empire grew to rule over 400 million people, having a significant impact on people in Britain and the colonies. British ...

Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Immingham has welcomed the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) strategic equipment transport ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War. With more horsepower and less armour, they were faster than battleships and were designed to outrun ...