General Paixhans developed the explosive shell for naval armament and consequently introduced armour plating to ships' wooden hulls, the first 'iron-clad', the Gloire, being built in 1859. The first sailing ship of the Royal Navy to be screw-driven and steam propelled, the Agamemnon, was built in 1852 at Bucklers' Hard from the oak of the Beaulieu woods, two years after the French Napoleon. The 'Service' had passed through traumatic change, to the satisfaction of its erstwhile antagonists, the French, who had much to gain by innovation. Germinated: Fisher had gathered about him a group of ardent and keen young officers whose ideals were to shake the Navy out of the lethargy into which it had lapsed since Trafalgar. It was here that the first stirrings of- Naval Reform The challenge went not unheeded in the Mediterranean where Admiral Sir John Fisher was Commander-inChief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1899 to 1902. These Laws stated specifically that the German Navy was to be so strong that, if any other navy was to challenge it, the adversary would be at risk. The Kruger Telegram alerted British suspicions of German hostility during the Boer War in 18, the German Navy Laws confirmed German's aggressive and competitive policy. With the Royal Navy unchallenged, 'Pax Britannica' existed for nigh on a century, the nation's policy being expressed in Lord Palmerston's three dicta: first, the Navy must be more powerful than any combination of other navies second, no foreign power should command the shores of the English Channel and third, the continuance of the European balance of power. ' may be morally indefensible, but the supreme position which the Royal Navy held during the nineteenth century guaranteed this maxim. THE STATE OF THE NAVY: 1900 'What we have, we hold. The first cutter is turned out for use as the sea boat.

Probably post trials note draught marks indicating light load. Entering Portsmouth Harbour from Spithead. 10 February 1906 Battleship 17,900-ton 10 X 12-inch gun Turbines King George V served in her as Lieutenant.Ĩ. 1875 Battleship 4-gun turret ship Twin screw 10,820-ton She was Dreadnought in 1857 and became Hospital ship at Greenwich.ħ. West Indies Cape Fran~ois.īuilt at Portsmouth. Armada, Coinlbra, Brest, Cadiz.īuilt at Blackwall.

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