by Matthew Wright | Feb 8, 2022 | History Article
Between 12 November 1921 and 6 February 1922 the world’s major powers met in Washington to resolve a wide range of international issues. Outcomes included a naval treaty – the ‘Five Power Treaty’, afterwards known as the ‘Washington Treaty’ – which ended a naval race...
by Matthew Wright | Jan 26, 2022 | History Article
It is a century since the world’s leading powers negotiated the ‘Washington Treaty’. This agreement of 6 February 1922 – called the ‘Five Power Treaty’ at the time[1] – required signatories to scrap numerous ships, including some as yet unfinished, dictated strict...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Jan 3, 2022 | History Article
Russia’s sole “aircraft carrier” the Admiral Kuznetsov, eventually named for the former Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, has over the years been the butt of many jokes and for good reason in many cases. Admiral of the Fleet...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Dec 28, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Sitting in a cold windswept harbour on the east coast of Canada is one of the most under rated and over looked and very often under appreciated ships ever to go to sea. Churchill called them Cheap and Nasty, a phrase we usually...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Nov 30, 2021 | History Article
Project 1155 Fregat known in the west as the Udaloy class These ships are the work horse of the surface fleet for the Russian navy, despite their age they have proved reliable and quite versatile they are often deployed on the longer-range operations such as the Gulf...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Nov 28, 2021 | History Article
USS Texas is a museum ship and relies on donations to donate to USS Texas please visit their website: www.battleshiptexas.org This Articles content is bought to you in large part by Gabe Shuffield id like to thank him and the foundation for allowing me onboard USS...
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