At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Germany emerged as a formidable naval power, building the High Seas Fleet into the second most powerful navy on Earth and directly challenging British ...

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 28, 1914 On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: At its inception, Dreadnought rendered the previous battleships of the world obsolete at a stroke. State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth century ...