Louis D. Rubin, a professor emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that among certain British writers there is “a kind of obsession” about refighting the Battle ...

During the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, British codebreakers in Room 40 used recovered German cipher material to read naval traffic and anticipate German fleet movements. As the battle escalated and ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

The 1916 Battle of Jutland left thousands dead and destroyed the reputation of British Admiral John Jellicoe. Watch as his grandson joins a scientific expedition to reveal shocking truths about WWI's ...

The Battle of Jutland brought more than 250 warships into a single massive engagement between Britain and Germany. Dreadnoughts, battlecruisers, and destroyers clashed in hours of chaos, explosions, ...

THOSE who seek the truth about any important military event of the World War find themselves confronted by a mass of contradictory evidence. Either side of the case may be presented in detail so ...

Relatives of the seamen who fought in the Battle of Jutland have been asked to share their stories to mark the centenary of the largest naval battle of World War One. Imperial War Museums (IWM) is ...

The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a ...

In 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship’s heave had plunked into the sea. A ...

Summary: A little over a century ago, the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet clashed at Jutland in a monumental battle involving fifty-eight dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, among 250 ...

Summary: HMS Iron Duke, commissioned in March 1914, epitomized the “super-dreadnought” class of battleships with its ten 13.5-inch guns and twenty-five thousand ton displacement. As the flagship of ...