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A Naval History of World War I (1994), the standard scholarly survey excerpt and text search; Herwig, Holger H. Luxury Fleet: The Imperial German Navy, 1888–1918 (1987) Marder, Arthur. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era (5 vol, 1970), vol 2–5 cover the First World War
Otto Weddigen in U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers that appear on the list—Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy—in a little more than an hour during the action of 22 September 1914. [5] The first three victims of UB-14 ' s career—the Amalfi , the British troopship Royal Edward , and the troopship Southland (which was seriously damaged) in July ...
Imperial Japanese Navy: pre-dreadnought: 15,400 28 April 1900 1 April 1923 Sunk by submarine 26 May 1942 Audacious Royal Navy: King George V: super-dreadnought: 25,830 15 October 1913 27 October 1914 Sunk by mine 27 October 1914 Babenberg Austro-Hungarian Navy: Habsburg: pre-dreadnought: 8,364 15 April 1904 Ceded to Great Britain 1919, scrapped ...
United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire. The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy.
Empire of the deep: the rise and fall of the British Navy. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-0-7538-2920-2. The British Navy from within. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. OCLC 3696385. The Navy List for April 1916. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1916. Vietnam to Zworykin. Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago: Wiliam Benton. 1972.
This was the largest aircraft carrier battle in history, involving fifteen American fleet and light carriers, nine Japanese carriers, 170 other warships, and some 1,700 aircraft. In terms of displacement, the U.S. Fifth Fleet's Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 58) is the largest single naval formation ever to give battle.
This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no commonly used name it is referred to as "Action of (date)" within ...
Leneman, Leah. "Medical women at war, 1914–1918." Medical history (1994) 38#2 pp: 160–177. online; Proctor, Tammy M. Female intelligence: women and espionage in the First World War (NYU Press, 2006) ISBN 0814766935 OCLC 51518648; Risser, Nicole Dombrowski. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With Or Without Consent (1999) ISBN ...