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History of the Royal Navy
- Francis Drake's circumnavigationIn 1567, a fleet led by the English privateer Sir John Hawkins conducted a slave trading voyage across the Atlantic to sell enslaved Africans in Spanish and…
- Washington Naval TreatyIn November 1918, the British Royal Navy interned the defeated German High Seas Fleet. The Allied powers held sharply differing views on what to do with…
- Anglo-German Naval AgreementPart V of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed severe limitations on Germany's naval forces. The treaty allowed no submarines, no naval aviation, and only…
- Tudor navyIn 1495, Sir Reginald Bray constructed a dry dock at Portsmouth that remains the oldest surviving example of its kind. This infrastructure project marked…
- Sinking of Prince of Wales and RepulseWinston Churchill and his cabinet met on the 17th of October and the 20th of October to discuss sending a modern battleship to the Far East.
- Destroyers-for-bases dealBy late June 1940, France had surrendered to Germany and Italy. The British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone in warfare against Hitler and Mussolini.
- Spanish ArmadaPhilip II of Spain sat in his chambers at the Escorial Palace, issuing written orders that would launch a fleet against England.
- Admiralty (United Kingdom)Around 1400, the office of Admiral of England emerged to manage maritime affairs. King Henry VIII established the Council of the Marine in 1546 to handle…