Battle of Jutland | Fort Vaux | 1 June 1916
Battle of Jutland Very, very quick recap. Ships of the High Seas Fleet and Grand Fleet fired on each other in anger yesterday, for the Continue reading Battle of Jutland | Fort Vaux | 1 June 1916
Tag Archives: Grand Fleet
Battle of Jutland | 31 May 1916
Battle of Jutland Today’s the day. Der Tag, as the Germans have been calling it. For my money, there is only one thing we can Continue reading Battle of Jutland | 31 May 1916
The fleets leave port | Jutland | 30 May 1916
Battle of Jutland The High Seas Fleet continues concentrating in preparation to sortie immediately after midnight. The water seethes with activity as ship after ship Continue reading The fleets leave port | Jutland | 30 May 1916
The stakes at Jutland | 28 May 1916
It’s a slightly unusual opening today. Bear with me and you’ll see where I’m going with this. The Skagerrak and the Kattegat Hey, have you Continue reading The stakes at Jutland | 28 May 1916
Rain at Kondoa | Daily Mailed | 23 Apr 1916
Rain at Kondoa In Africa, the penny is beginning to drop for General van Deventer quite how foolhardy he’s been in leading the march to Continue reading Rain at Kondoa | Daily Mailed | 23 Apr 1916
Arsing around | North Sea | Douaumont | 22 Apr 1916
Arsing around in the North Sea Hopefully we’re all used by now to scratching our heads at the intermittent North Sea naval actions that have Continue reading Arsing around | North Sea | Douaumont | 22 Apr 1916
Indian engineers | HMS Campania | 12 Apr 1916
Africa General van Deventer’s altitude is increasing as he and his horsemen ride through Tanzania. Today they’ve arrived at a boma, a fortified village with Continue reading Indian engineers | HMS Campania | 12 Apr 1916
Vindex | Harwich Force | 25 Mar 1916
Hoyer/Højer Here we have one marked “Things the Royal Navy Would Rather You Forgot About”. It begins with a funny name. HMS Vindex is not Continue reading Vindex | Harwich Force | 25 Mar 1916
The Grand Fleet | 25 Jan 1916
Grand Fleet The Battle of Trafalgar, a hundred and ten years before this war, was not made in a day. The fleet that won at Continue reading The Grand Fleet | 25 Jan 1916
Wearing-out battle | Admiral Scheer | 18 Jan 1916
Haig and the wearing-out battle Right, time to engage with one of the more notorious subjects that comes up when discussing General Haig and the Continue reading Wearing-out battle | Admiral Scheer | 18 Jan 1916
Hartlepool | Scarborough | Whitby | 16 Dec 1914
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on today. “Today,” it says, “is big. Really big…” Well, perhaps not, but we do Continue reading Hartlepool | Scarborough | Whitby | 16 Dec 1914
North Sea | 15 Dec 1914
Time to go back to sea. Big things are afoot (aship?) in the North Sea. First, we’ll sweep up the last day of the increasingly-misnamed Continue reading North Sea | 15 Dec 1914
Heligoland Bight | 28 August 1914
A relatively quiet day on land, but in the Heligoland Bight, the naval war is about to heat up considerably. Heligoland Bight A large British Continue reading Heligoland Bight | 28 August 1914
Belgrade | 29 Jul 1914
The downward spiral continues. SMS Bodrog The Austro-Hungarian monitor (a naval ship with large guns designed to operate in rivers rather than at sea) Bodrog Continue reading Belgrade | 29 Jul 1914