NOTE: The opinions and writings in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Canadian government or armed forces. The Canadians have one of the longest and most inhospitable coast lines in the world, this makes policing the...
Permission to come onboard Sleek, black and rarely seen; the submarine is without doubt the most powerful weapons carrier man has ever devised, nothing comes close to it for fire power not even the mighty American aircraft carriers. For over half a century these...
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...
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...
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