When the First World War broke out, HMS Hawke helped form the 10th Cruiser Squadron and took part in blockade duties between the Shetland Islands and Norway. In October 1914, the squadron was deployed further south in the North Sea to stop German warships from attacking a tr...
Battle of Coronel:The first major naval battle of the First World War, fought on 1stNovember 1914: shocking Britain with the loss of her ships to Admiral Graf Spee’s Pacific Squadron and the death of Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. Battle of the Falkland Islands:The Royal Navy’s spectacul...
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The torpedo pierces the fore part of the ship. Its effects are terrible. Iron, wood, metal, parts of bodies, and smashed ships' implements are all intermixed, and the electric light, by chance spared, continues to shine upon this sight. Two decks lower, in the diesel dynamo room, there ...
This he proceeded to do on 21 June, with 66 ships in all destroyed, the event spectated by a party of schoolchildren who had travelled to see the ships at Scapa Flow. Upon his eventual return to Germany von Reuter was regarded as a national hero, the saviour of the honour of the Ger...
WORLD War IThis article examines the fates of Austro-Hungarian merchant ships that were stranded in ports in the United States at the beginning of the First World War. The wider context of the relationship between Austria-Hungary and the United States is also analysed. The ...
By the outbreak of theFirst World Warboth theRoyal Flying Corpsand theFrench Army Air Servicehad airships whereas the German government owned seven produced byFerdinand Zeppelin. In the war Zeppelins were used forair ridson Britain and France. However, being large and slow, they were an easy...
Among those whose story is told are Hannah Snell, who disguised herself as a man to serve in the Royal Marines, and Ann Hopping, who went to sea on Royal Navy ships in the 18thcentury. The exhibition also explores the role of women during two world wars and considers the realities of ...
possibly for his actions that day. He spent the rest of the war in the UK and got married in 1918. His brotherSidney Charles Squireswas already in the Royal Navy in 1914 and served as a sick-bay attendant through the war, on a variety of ships – including one that was involved in ...
He could see the ships coming: “As the moon descended, darkness shrouded the ships from view. The reserves were alarmed and they were ready for action. I was waiting for the outcome and watching the distance. Soon we heard the roaring of the guns.” Troops going ashore during Gallipoli ...