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Officers in the ‘Fishpond’ and their Roles in the Royal Navy of the Fisher Era 1904-1919
February 26, 2023
Henrikki Tikkanen Aalto University School of Business Abstract Admiral Sir John Fisher was the leading figure behind the considerable reforms that took place in the Royal Navy before and during the First World War. Britain was engaged in a costly naval arms race with Imperial Germany during the Fisher era of 1904-1919. The controversial admiral … CONTINUE READING ❯
A Question of Faith, A Matter of Tactics: The Royal Navy and the Washington Naval Agreement
February 26, 2023
At the conclusion of the Washington Conference in February 1922, statesmen had good reason to feel satisfied at their handiwork.[Those attending the conference included the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, China, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal with representatives from India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand attached to the British delegation.] A naval arms … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
March 9, 2021
The Challenges of Command surveys the executive branch officer corps of the Royal Navy from the last part of the Nineteenth Century through the close of the First World War. In the process, Robert Davison focuses his analysis on the broader societal and technological setting of the period that acted upon the Royal Navy and … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900
December 6, 2015
Writing a single-volume history of the navy which can claim to possess the greatest and most varied operational experience from the twentieth century forward represents a singularly difficult task. Compression is essential and accepting that much of necessity will fall by the wayside, ensuring that which remains is faithful to the greater story while retaining … CONTINUE READING ❯
“Every ship in the Fleet must be Eused like men”: The Royal Navy Mutinies in Simon’s and Table Bay, 1797
July 21, 2015
Introduction (( Title is from “Enclosure A, Letter dropped on the Quarterdeck of the Tremendous on the 7th of October,” reprinted in George McCall Theal, ed., Records of the Cape Colony, December 1796 to December 1799. Vol. II, (London: William Clowes and Sons Ltd., Printed for the Government of the Cape Colony, 1898), 161-162. )) … CONTINUE READING ❯
Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston
July 21, 2015
Reassessment of the past invariably means reassessment of the picture painted by earlier historians, but for military and naval writers, it also frequently means challenging the uses others have made of previous experience as a window to contemporary problems. These two qualities are much apparent in Empire, Technology and Seapower, a further title in the … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
July 21, 2015
The Challenges of Command surveys the executive branch officer corps of the Royal Navy from the last part of the Nineteenth Century through the close of the First World War. In the process, Robert Davison focuses his analysis on the broader societal and technological setting of the period that acted upon the Royal Navy and … CONTINUE READING ❯
Swimming in the ‘Fishpond’ or Solidarity with the ‘Beresfordian Syndicate’: An Analysis of the Inquiry by the Subcommittee of Imperial Defence into Naval Policy, 1909
January 15, 2015
Keith McLay Canterbury Christ Church University Admiral Sir John Fisher. Library of Congress LC-B2- 3330-5. Modern histories of the army and navy have long recognised that these institutions are in respect of their external and internal relationships, sui generis, political. The former relations, typically manifest in a competition for resources and prominence in campaign, have … CONTINUE READING ❯
Changing American Perceptions of the Royal Navy Since 1775
July 1, 2014
John B. Hattendorf Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, U.S. Naval War College There are many dimensions to a navy. At its most obvious, a navy is an expression of a nation’s power, but at the same time it is a microcosm of a nation, representing its industrial and technological capacities as well as … CONTINUE READING ❯
Naval History and Heroes: The Influence of U.S. and British Navalism on Children’s Writing, 1895-1914
July 1, 2014
By Hazel Sheeky Bird Independent Scholar, Great Britain At the beginning of the twentieth century, a great number of navalist books were produced for children in Britain and America. [1. At present no substantial bibliographical source exists for British or American children’s navalist texts, and it is partly the aim of my ongoing research to … CONTINUE READING ❯