This convoy was expected to reach Bear Island on Christmas Day about the same time as the homeward bound Convoy RA 55A, when ...

The Royal Navy was keen not to give the German fleet - the second biggest in ... fleets in the world had been incredibly important in WW1. As an island nation which was dependent on imports ...

SMS Scharnhorst was part of the East Asia Squadron, the Imperial German Navy's cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the Pacific Ocean until the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The armoured ...

Royal Navy experts said Friday that an analysis of video, photos and scans confirmed the ship's identity. On October 15, 1914 ...

This enabled it to send reports of Allied naval movements around the coast ... dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

Image: The Scharnhorst was sunk by the British during WWI SMS Scharnhorst ... was important because the German East Asia Squadron, Germany's only permanent overseas naval formation, effectively ...