One of the many myths about the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand – the ship built as a gift from New Zealand to Britain in 1909 – is that she was unaffordable for a small Dominion of just under a million people. In the previous article I showed that this was simply...
NOTE: This is an opinion piece created for discussion purposes and does not reflect the views or opinions of the Canadian government or the Royal Canadian Navy. A Brief History The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the youngest naval forces in the western world. It was...
This will be the first in a new series where we examine the armor schemes of various battleships throughout history. We will start off this series with the never-built American super dreadnoughts, the Montana class battleships. During the Montana class armor post we...
The General Belgrano started life as the USS Phoenix , a Brooklyn class light cruiser and named for the capital of Arizona. She was ordered on February 13 1929 with the contract being awarded to the New York Ship building company of Camden New Jersey on August...
Logistics is the key to victory in war, if you can cut your enemy supply lines and maintain your own you can effectively reduce or eliminate the enemies ability to continue hostilities.Since before biblical times waring peoples, tribes and nations have laid siege to...
One of the many mythologies surrounding the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand – the gift that the New Zealand government made to Britain in April 1909 – is that she was unaffordable. According to legend, New Zealand was too small to afford her, had no money and the ship...
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