Under the new arrangements, a convoy of 10 to 50 merchant ships would be escorted by armed navy vessels. A convoy of British ships at sea during WW1. The armed convoys helped Britain maintain the ...

During his wartime service in the Navy, Wilkinson realised it was ... The weather at sea, particularly around the British coasts, constantly changes. And so no single pattern of camouflage could ...

In the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December, 1914 ... German fleet. Instead of attacking, von Spee beat a rapid retreat, a fatal mistake for the Germans and salvation for the British.

Later, in the southern North Sea, it protected Canadian soldier convoys from German attacks. A German torpedo from U-9 hit HMS Hawke on October 15, 1914. Read also: British fleet's Gibraltar ...

There follow a series of chapters that cover the naval events of the war year-by-year, with maps and quite often tables outlining fleet composition and ... necessarily heavy on German and British ...

The British Navy knew it couldn't completely disguise a ship to protect it from attack during WWI. So they turned to 'Dazzle Painting' which sought to disguise a ship's speed and direction.