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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 ...
Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.
Russian Navy People's Liberation Army Navy. HMS Caledonia: 1: Ocean liner: 291 m (955 ft) 56,551: Ocean liner converted to training ship. Caught fire 1939 and subsequently scrapped Royal Navy: Admiral Gorshkov: 1: Aircraft carrier: 284 m (932 ft) 45,400: 1 in service. Variant of Kiev class Russian Navy Indian Navy. Queen Elizabeth class: 2 ...
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 ...
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It participated with the biggest fleet action of the war – the Battle of Jutland – in June 1916. [1] After the Battle of Jutland, the German High Seas Fleet rarely ventured out of its bases at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel in the last two years of the war to engage with the British fleet. [6]
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