These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise bleak era in French history. Entering the Second World War, it was assumed ...

Summary: This article traces the evolution and significance of steel line-of-battleships from the 1880s, culminating in the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought of 1905, which epitomized naval dominance ...

The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the construction of a series of warships that could carry and independently aim heavy guns external to the hull. In 1905, HMS ...

Barnsley, Eng: Seaforth / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2022. Pp. x, 310. Illus., tables, appends., notes, biblio., index. $79.95. ISBN: 1526701316 The French Navy, from ...

In the night of July 2-3 at various ports in England and Scotland, armedparties of British officers & men quietly boarded all major French shipsberthed with the Home Fleet, mostly at Portsmouth and ...

Following the controversy over the right of the United States to increase the angle of its naval guns comes information from France that the range of French battleships is being increased. The ...