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Richelieu Class Battleship : A suprisingly successful design

by ChrisKnupp | July 16, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

In the spirit of Matthew J Wright’s excellent article on the King George V class battleships, I decided to examine another battleship that also suffers from an undeservedly bad reputation. In this article we will talk about the surprisingly successful design that was...

The Kaisers Pirates

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | June 6, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

SMS Wolf the Kaisers most successful Surface commerce raider

The Oberon class quiet and capable

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | August 8, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

The distinguished O boats over 40 years of service

The All Big Gun Race

by Andy South | September 6, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

Before we start a quick explanation on the all big gun race. I have deliberately avoided of the use of the term "Dreadnought" before the date of her launched, as it was a term not in use before that day. Instead I have used the name Fisher created, "Untakeable" I...

A walkthrough of an SSBN

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | January 31, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

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

A look at life ARA General Belgrano

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | April 2, 2022 | History Article | 1 Comment

From USS Phoenix to ARA General Belgrano and her part in two wars and one coup d’etat

HMS Collingwood and the ‘Admirals’– shining lights in the Royal Navy’s ‘dark ages’?

by Matthew Wright | August 6, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

During the early 1880s, Britain laid down six battleships of the Admiral class in several distinct sub-classes, all but one bearing the names of prominent admirals from the Royal Navy’s long history. The prototype was HMS Collingwood, a heavy warship laid down in 1880...

Battleship showdown: USS South Dakota versus the British 16B/38

by Matthew Wright | September 22, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

One of the most ingenious battleship types of the Second World War was the US Navy's four-strong South Dakota class, which packed excellent fire-power, armour protection, good range and reasonable speed into a Treaty-limited displacement. In part the design was a...

German Aircraft Carrier Of World War 1

by Andy South | August 6, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

By 1919 the Great War had dragged on for five long blood-soaked years. Even with the USA havingjoined the Allies in 1917, victory had been elusive for any of the combatants. For the two years that hadfollowed that declaration, a flood of war materials had poured from...

Iowa Class Battleships over the Years

by ChrisKnupp | 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...

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | August 31, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

The Fleet that keeps the navy moving

The story behind ‘The battlecruiser HMS New Zealand: a gift to The Empire’

by Matthew Wright | October 17, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

The story of HMS New Zealand, the battlecruiser that the Dominion of New Zealand gave as a gift to the Empire of Britain in 1909, has been told many times. Often incorrectly. Indeed, the ship is surrounded with mythology. A variety of stories about her origin and...

USS Texas The last Dreadnought

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | August 14, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

Part one explores the history of the USS Texas

Project 611 Zulu Class Submarines

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | January 15, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

With the conclusion of the Great patriotic war (World War Two), the allies set about rounding up all the advanced technologies the Germans had developed. What the allies acquired in terms of Naval technology was leaps and bounds ahead of anything the allies had...

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

by Matthew Wright | 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...

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 ChrisKnupp | 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...

China’s Newest Warship : The Type 55 Destroyer

by ChrisKnupp | 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...

The Navy’s FFG(X) Program : Foreign and Domestic Options

by ChrisKnupp | 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...

Canada’s Next Generation Submarine

by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | 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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