The first recorded naval battle featuring artillery took place in the first naval engagement of the Hundred Years’ War.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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In December 1969 the Admiralty Board, which meets in order to administer the Royal Navy, published a written statement that said issuing rum was ‘no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required’ and the daily ration was stopped the following year.
Concerned that the entire fleet might be shared out between the victors as the spoils of war Admiral von Reuter, the German officer in charge of the interned fleet, decided to purposely sink the ships.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich II.
European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda Bay.
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