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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!

What was the Best Light Cruiser? : Main Guns

by | March 1, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

After the success of the posts examining which battleships had the best anti-surface firepower and anti-aircraft firepower, I wanted to change things up! In this post, we will examine the guns of light cruisers, determining what was the best light cruiser gun of the...
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Rudders: Warship Tech

by | January 10, 2021 | History Article | 2 Comments

Rudders. Just about every warship has them, but rudders vary considerably from one design to the next. Extraordinarily little thought is given to these devices that are hidden away from view underwater. However,  rudders are a critical component of warship...
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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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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary

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

The Fleet that keeps the navy moving
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Triple Turrets vs. Three-Gun Turrets : Quick Read

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

Perhaps one of the most common simplifications when discussing warships occurs when discussing their turret styles. For instance, a battleship might be described as having twin turrets, triple turrets, or even quadruple turrets. This of course refers to the number of...
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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 Inverted Bow and Warships

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

The traditional raked bow as seen on the Soviet nuclear powered cruiser Frunze. This type of bow has been typical on most warships of the 20th century. When one thinks of the bow on a warship, they typically think of the traditional raked bow that overhangs the water....
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How some key naval engineering terms migrated into English

by | May 15, 2020 | History Article | 0 Comments

It’s been said that English is a language that pursues other languages down dark alleys and mugs them for vocabulary, then riffles their pockets for more, and that’s certainly true of a fair number of naval engineering terms. Words such as ‘barbette’, ‘casemate’ and...
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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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The slow death of the Lion class – Britain’s never-built battleships

by | November 10, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

As war clouds loomed over Europe in the late 1930s, Britain’s last generation of battleships were well in hand. By 1938 the five King George V class were under construction and the first two examples of their successors, the Lions, were due to be laid down in 1939.[1]...
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Who won the Battle of Jutland?

by | July 23, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

On the afternoon of 31 May 1916, and on into the early hours of 1 June, the British Grand Fleet and the German fleet came to blows off the Denmark coast in a battle known to the British as the Battle of Jutland, to the Germans as the Skagerrak.[1] It was the first –...
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F4U Corsair vs P-51 Mustang

by | March 12, 2022 | History Article | 0 Comments

In the first of a new series of posts, we will begin to examine various carrier aircraft and see how they compare to other aircraft. And what better way to start the series off than to examine two of the most famous American fighter aircraft of the Second World War....
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Skegs? What do they do? – Warship Tech

by | August 22, 2019 | History Article | 0 Comments

Skegs are an unusual feature of warship construction. Some warships had them, others did not. Some warships buried only a few of their shafts inside of skegs, others buried all of them. This seemingly random use of skegs has made them the subject of considerable...
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The Kaisers Pirates

by | June 6, 2021 | History Article | 0 Comments

SMS Wolf the Kaisers most successful Surface commerce raider

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The pursuit of the Goeben and the battle of the River Plate

by | July 23, 2018 | History Article | 0 Comments

The Battle of the River Plate is one of the best known encounters of the Second World War. It was the first major sea battle of that conflict, and it came on 13 December 1939, a time when the so-called ‘phony war’ was in full swing – the brief period when the Second...
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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. 

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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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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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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