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The Franco-Spanish fleet commanded by Don Juan José Navarro drove off the British fleet under Thomas Mathews near Toulon in 1744. The British fire-ship Anne Galley blows up after being hit by a broadside from the 64-gun Spanish warship Hércules. The continued existence of the French fleet had considerable, potentially crucial, strategic consequences at the time […]

Tons of British and neutral shipping lost in 1917 and 1918, showing failure of unrestricted U-boat warfare. One more countermeasure had not been adopted, the convoying of ships. Convoy (the grouping of merchant ships under the protection of warships) was a very old means of protecting ships and their cargoes; during the Middle Ages wine […]

If there is no evidence in the historical record that the kobukson was ironclad, where did this idea come from? One hypothesis is that it may have come from the West. The first tales of Yi Sun-sin and his turtle ship to reach Europe and the United States were carried back by Westerners who visited […]

Yi was 47 years old, at the height of his powers, and a man whose military talents and reputation for honesty made him both hated and admired by his peers. After completing the destruction of the Japanese fleet at Tangpo, Yi and Won Kyun spent the next two days scouring northern Koje Island and then […]

Major surface operations in the Adriatic became progressively infrequent during the last two years of the war. The increased use of mines and the larger number of submarines operating in the sea made it an inhospitable environment for capital ships. Minefields restricted the Austrians’ ability not only to deploy the battlefleet but also to undertake […]