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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!

F-14 vs F-15 : Tomcat vs Eagle

by | August 29, 2023 | History Article | 1 Comment

It's interesting seeing how naval aircraft compare to their contemporaries ashore. Not only does the operating environment impact aircraft design, but the rigors of operating in a maritime environment can also radically influence design as well. This can result in...
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How battleship secondary armament evolved

by | July 13, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

The mastless steel battleship essentially emerged from the engineering chaos of mid-nineteenth century technological change and evolved – fairly steadily, but with occasional jumps – through to the end of the classic battleship era after the Second World War. One...
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HMAS Sydney : The Pre-War Years (1913-1914)

by | September 3, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Special thanks to Andy South for sharing a snippet from his books detailing the career and design of HMAS Sydney. Andy has delved deep into the history of this ship and produced an entire series. If you enjoy the article, you will definitely love his book. You can...
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HMS Vanguard: Britain’s Last and Greatest Battleship

by | January 12, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Britain’s last, largest and fastest battleship, HMS Vanguard, was commissioned in May 1946.[1] She was technically the best battleship the British ever built, but was completed too late for the Second World War, never tested in combat, and entered service at a time of...
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12″/50 Mark 8: How Powerful were the Alaska Class Cruisers?

by | March 26, 2023 | History Article | 0 Comments

How powerful were the Alaska class cruisers? That question could not be answered without first looking at its weapons. Serving as the primary armament for the Alaska class large cruisers, the 12"/50 Mark 8 naval gun was one of the most advanced naval guns developed by...
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Navy General Board Naval History Questions: Volume 1

by | January 7, 2023 | History Article | 0 Comments

Over the years, I have been asked a great many naval history questions by curious readers. It's actually quite an honor to have people reach out to me and I love getting to chat to people and answering the questions that I can. Even those that escape me are no problem...
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Where did the term ‘battleship’ come from?

by | April 8, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Think ‘battleship’, and you might think of the steam-driven steel warships that emerged during the last decade or so of the nineteenth century, and which remained an important measure of sea-force until the Second World War. In that, you would be right. The word...
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Scharnhorst vs Invincible

by | March 3, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

On the first day of November 1914, the Royal Navy was to suffer its firstdefeat in over a century, denting both its pride and the hard fought for,Nelsonic image. But thirty-Seven days later, retribution in the form ofseven Royal Navy cruisers was to be delivered in an...
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A decisive episode: the strategic stakes of the Bismarck sortie

by | August 28, 2025 | History Article | 0 Comments

The events surrounding the brief Atlantic sortie of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, have been told many times. Analysis often focuses on engineering and combat performance,[1] or on the tactical issues associated with finding a lone warship in the North...
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Britain’s Majestic class battleships, part 2 – the politics

by | July 22, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

Britain’s nine Majestic class battleships of the 1890s were the largest single class of battleships ever built. As we saw in the previous article, the class introduced a range of key technologies, and the Admiralty wanted them in order to maintain the ‘two power...
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Naval heroism, politics and Jutland: the story of Jack Cornwell VC

by | June 17, 2025 | History Article | 1 Comment

One of the most poignant human stories to come out of the Battle of Jutland was that of sixteen year old John Travers Cornwell, J/42563. He was a Boy, 1st Class, aboard HMS Chester during that clash of fleets at the end of May 1916, and he became one of the youngest...
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Iowa Class Battleships over the Years

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

From the time that USS Iowa was laid down in 1940 until today, the Iowa class battleships have been around for 78 years. During that time, the ships underwent many changes to help them adapt to the type of conflict they were engaged in. In this article, I gathered a...
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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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Battleship Evolution : From the first Dreadnought to the Last

by | July 29, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

This series on battleships originally began on the Navy General Board Facebook page. It got to be so popular that we combined all of the posts into one article on battleship evolution. In this article we will see how each Navy's first dreadnought differed compared to...
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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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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. 

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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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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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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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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