The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
Over a thousand shells were fired by the German ships, resulting in 137 deaths and a further 592 people being injured in the British towns. Most of the casualties were civilians.
The first recorded naval battle featuring artillery took place in the first naval engagement of the Hundred Years’ War.
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.
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