While all eyes are on the new-generation ships, filled with state-of-the-art technical features and boasting impressive looks, we must never forget the old vessels that paved the way for these young ...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Dreadnought, like Satsuma and South Carolina, would carry a single main armament of large guns, rather than the mixed armament of previous ships. But Fisher wanted ...

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