In May 1916, Admiral Reinhard Scheer tried to lure part of the Royal Navy into a trap and destroy it before the rest of the Grand Fleet could intervene. Instead, British intelligence intercepted the ...

Prof. Brose (Drexel), author of numerous works in German military and naval history, gives us a fresh look at the Battle of Jutland, a subject one would think has been done to death. His approach is ...

Britain's most northerly cathedral will host a service remembering the First World War’s biggest naval battle, it was announced today. St Magnus in the Orkney Isles will be the focal point as ...

HMS Echo has spent a week scouring the bottom of the North Sea for the 25 ships sunk in the clash which killed more than 8,500 HMS Black Prince, which was destroyed in the Battle of Jutland 99 years ...

Former enemies’ navies will lay wreaths in North Sea to commemorate first world war’s biggest naval battle, in which nearly 9,000 sailors died British and German warships will lay wreaths at the site ...

The Battle Of Jutland was the biggest naval battle in history. On the 31st of May 1916 – 251 British and German battleships set out to annihilate one another in the North Sea. In a vicious engagement ...

One hundred years ago today was the largest and most expensive naval battles of the First World War – the Battle of Jutland. While tactically the naval fight was a failure as more British ships and ...

May 31st marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. There, off the Danish coast, British and German naval forces fought as the Royal Navy sought to bottle up the German battle fleet in the ...

IT was supposed to be a war-ending event. But the technologicial Battle of Jutland a century ago almost tore the Old Empire apart. In 1916, war-weary Britain was still supremely confident in the Royal ...

Ensigns that are still scorched, soot-blackened and ragged from the vast naval engagement are being taken out of museum storage for the first time in decades. The battle saw warships from the British ...

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 ...