When most people think of World War One, they think of trenches and machine guns. However, there was another side to the conflict – the war at sea. In 1916, the Battle of Jutland saw the war’s ...

Now the discoverers will have to wait for confirmation of their theory by the Royal Navy. British explorers found the wreck of a warship. It may be HMS Hawke, sunk by the Germans in 1914 The ship ...

The shock provoked a disproportionate response from the British, who dispatched two capital ships – hitherto vital for keeping the bulk of the German High Seas Fleet in check in the waters of ...

236–37. 54. Memorandum HF 0011/17, 31 August 1915, Backhouse Papers; and Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, p. 245. 55. For the British fear that Zeppelin reconnaissance would enable the Germans to set up such ...