by Matthew Wright | Oct 8, 2022 | History Article
By the early twentieth century one of the problems the British had with their heavy naval guns was that existing gun machinery could not elevate or depress the guns quickly enough to compensate for the roll of the ship. In some conditions the turntables could not...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 11, 2022 | History Article
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...
by Matthew Wright | Mar 12, 2022 | History Article
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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