In June 1897 he had a his personal yacht experimenting a turbine, named “Turbinia”. He made a publicity stunt by turning up unannounced at the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee, and made a splash by being spotted by all present at the Navy Review in Spithead, this 26 June 1897. He attrac...
Despite its ambitious construction plans, the UK Navy faced the war with a little more than 200 destroyers, but with only 75 of them being up-to-date ships with oil boiler heating, while the rest were suited only for coastal service. The majority of the destroyers could hardly keep up wit...
WW1 British Prototypes General Jackson’s Pedrail United Kingdom (1915-1918) Prototype – 1 Partially Completed Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton had been there right at the birth of the British plan for the machines which were to become known as tanks. In 1915, this veteran of Victorian ...
British Blockade of Germany While a so-called close blockade, where a belligerent stopped traffic with its enemy’s ports by stationing ships within a three-mile limit, was considered legitimate, a distant blockade of the kind in which Britain was engaged was not. In a distant blockade, one ...
Died in WW1 as a commander in the navy.Dailey, Frederick E. (28) - Carpenter, R.N. Joined the expedition from H.M.S. Ganges. Apprentice in a wooden shipyard at a time when wooden ships were being replaced by iron and then steel hulled ships. In Antarctica he was responsible for ...
Lionel Greenstreet served in the merchant navy and joined the Endurance just 24 hours before it left Plymouth, England. The original first officer had resigned in order to join the war effort (WW1). A master Mariner and eventually the last surviving member of the expedition.Hubert...