Summary: HMS Iron Duke, commissioned in March 1914, epitomized the “super-dreadnought” class of battleships with its ten 13.5-inch guns and twenty-five thousand ton displacement. As the flagship of ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On May 31, 1916, a small skirmish between British and German warships would pave the way for the biggest naval confrontation of WWI--the infamous ...

The biggest naval confrontation of World War I, the Battle of Jutland in 1916, also has the distinction of being the first battle during which a plane was launched from an aircraft carrier. The pilot ...