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History Articles

Navy General Board was created to help share all aspects of naval history from throughout the ages. Here you will find our collection of history articles. It has come a long way and has something for everyone. Take your time and browse them all!

A U-boat attack in strange waters

by | July 25, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

By January 1945 the Second World War had long turned in favour of the Allies. Germany was on the retreat across Europe, and Japan had been pushed back to a shrinking perimeter around the Home Islands. The idea of a U-boat turning up off the New Zealand coast that...
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Iowa Class Battleships – A Departure from Traditional Design

by | August 3, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

The Iowa class battleships were the last dreadnoughts put to sea by the United States. In many ways they incorporated all of the lessons learned by the US Navy throughout the dreadnaught age. They were powerfully armed, decently armored, and very fast. It is no doubt...
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Brooklyn Class Cruisers: Warship Spotlight

by | November 11, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

The United States Navy produced a large number of cruisers in the years before and during the Second World War. Many of these ships were highly successful designs, providing excellent service during the War years and became well known such as the Baltimore and...
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The First Soviet Nuclear Submarines

by | January 27, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

With the USA leading the way in submarines the Soviet Union had to catch up

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Were the ‘Admirals’ Britain’s first class of battleships?

by | August 27, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

In an earlier article we explored the story of HMS Collingwood, a British battleship that the Royal Navy’s Director of Naval Construction, Nathaniel Barbaby, sketched in 1880 and which was detailed by his assistant, William White.[1] Collingwood was soon followed by...
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The other HMS Hood – Britain’s last turret ship

by | June 18, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Mention HMS Hood and just one ship usually springs to mind. However, there was another HMS Hood, a battleship laid down for the Royal Navy in August 1889, which survived long enough to be given one last - and decisively final - role a few months after the outbreak of...
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The Malta class: the carriers that never were

by | February 17, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

During the 1930s, as the world’s major navies began rearming, it was clear that aircraft carriers were going to play a significant role in any future combat. Just how significant was not wholly anticipated at the time – but there was no question that carriers were...
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Did Admiral Sir John Fisher try to launch a battlecruiser revolution?

by | June 16, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

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, though, is...
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A walkthrough of an SSBN

by | January 31, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

Take a tour onboard the worlds only publicly open ballistic missile submarine

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The Washington Treaty and the Royal Navy’s scrapping programmes

by | July 19, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

The naval treaty of 6 February 1922 negotiated in Washington – technically the ‘Five Power Treaty’, but afterwards simply called the ‘Washington Treaty’ - included lists of the ships that signatories were required to dispose of. The longest was British. A significant...
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Admiral Kuznetsov: Russia’s Troubled Carrier

by | January 3, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

Russia’s troubled carrier

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“Thank God for the Navy!” – HMS Veronica and the Hawke’s Bay quake of 1931

by | January 30, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

It’s not often that a city’s memorial to a warship is larger than the ship itself. Or that the ship’s bell continues to be rung in that city to this day, honouring the way the navy came to the rescue when tragedy unfolded. But that’s true in Napier, New Zealand, where...
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The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse – Part 3: the 70-year mystery

by | December 15, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse off the Malayan coast on 10 December 1941 – described in the previous two articles - set alarm bells going in Britain. It marked the first time heavy ships had been lost to air attack, while fully operational and manoeuvering at...
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Top 10 Biggest Battleships of All Time

by | May 15, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Battleships were the largest warships that utilized gun based weaponry as their main armament. Hundreds of feet in length and displacing tens of thousands of tons, their size allowed them to carry the largest guns and the thickest armor. While battleships are massive...
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The Battle of the River Plate and USS Salem

by | July 31, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

Today's article will go a little off track compared to our typical articles. That's because we are looking at the American Des Moines class heavy cruiser USS Salem (CA-139) and her portrayal of the German raider Admiral Graf Spee in the classic 1956 film The Battle of...
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News and Current Events

A relatively new addition to the Navy General Board website. While we remain focused on sharing history, we also want to examine naval current events that are occuring across the world. This section is still new, but more articles are coming. 

China’s Newest Warship : The Type 55 Destroyer

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

At a time when the United States Navy is struggling to determine the future of its Navy, China has been quietly building up its naval forces. The People’s Liberation Army Navy has risen to be the second largest navy in the world by tonnage. It’s not just quantity that...
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Why China’s Island Bases are Not a Big Deal

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

Over the past few years, the media has made a big deal of the artificial island bases that China has built in the South China Sea. Several of these islands are well fortified, featuring harbors, airstrips, and formidable land-based weaponry. Some in the media have...
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The Navy’s FFG(X) Program : Foreign and Domestic Options

by | July 16, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

The Navy has all but admitted that the Littoral Combat Ships are a flop. Therefore, they have started looking at potential ships to fulfill requirements for a new frigate design known as the FFG(X) Program. Make makes things interesting is that this time the US Navy...
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Canada’s Next Generation Submarine

by | July 19, 2021 | History Article, News | 29 Comments

My own opinion and hypothesis on what class of submarine could become Canada’s next generation submarine

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