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Tag: Naval

HMS Vanguard, a Trident missile submarine

Don’t cut conventional arms spending to fund nukes

Posted on 22nd July 201610th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
Jane’s has reported that the UK is having to cut spending on conventional arms, in order to pay for the new Successor class ballistic missile submarines. I believe that the money spent on the nu... Read More

Win a copy of A Fleet in Being in paperback

Posted on 1st June 201519th May 2015 by Russell Phillips
I’m giving away two paperback copies of A Fleet in Being. Everyone on my mailing list will be entered into the draw. If you’re not already on my list, you can join here. You will also get ... Read More
Deutschland

SMS Deutschland, the Civilian U-Boat

Posted on 19th January 201510th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
The idea of merchant submarines, a variation on standard merchant ships, has been suggested on multiple occasions, but has only been put into practice once, during WWI. In 1916 a class of seven u-boat... Read More

A Fleet in Being: Austro-Hungarian Warships of WW1

Posted on 26th November 201429th December 2017 by Russell Phillips
The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine – The Austro-Hungarian Navy – was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state abord its flagship,... Read More
Damn Close-Run Thing (large print)

Large Print, Free Books, Translations

Posted on 29th September 20144th December 2014 by Russell Phillips
I have several news items to pass on. A Damn Close-Run Thing is now available in large print. This is something of an experiment – if sales figures suggest that large print is in demand, then I&... Read More
British drifters

The Otranto Barrage

Posted on 14th November 201310th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
The Otranto Barrage was a naval blockade of the Otranto Straits between Brindisi and Corfu, intended to prevent the Austro-Hungarian navy gaining access to the Mediterranean Sea. Although it did keep ... Read More
Szent István

Szent István: Hungary’s Battleship

Posted on 3rd June 201310th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
As a land-locked country with no coastline, it may come as a surprise to learn that Hungary has ever needed or wanted a battleship. But, in the years before World War 1, Hungary was part of the Austro... Read More
SMS Wien at anchor in Cattaro

The Sinking of SMS Wien

Posted on 3rd June 201310th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
On the 10th of December 1917, the Austro-Hungarian Monarch class battleship SMS Wien (Vienna) was attacked in port at Trieste. All three ships of the Monarch class had been relegated to harbour duties... Read More
Photograph of Admiral Graf Spee

Battle of the River Plate

Posted on 3rd June 201310th April 2018 by Russell Phillips
One of the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was that Germany was not allowed to build warships with a displacement greater than 10,000 tons. This effectively meant that Germany was not allowed t... Read More

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