#naval warfare
The First Battle of Cape Finisterre by Samuel Scott
The painting depicts the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747 between the British and French during the War of Austrian Succession. It was a decisive victory for the British. They captured 4 ships and inflicted a terrible loss on the French navy
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IJN Mikasa
Launched in 1902 and photographed in the top image in 1905, the Mikasa is the only surviving pre-dreadnought battleship in the world. The Mikasa is now a museum ship, is actually embedded in concrete and is to be found in the town of Yokosuka on the Yokohama Bay.
The following article wriiten by Geoffrey Morrison and on CNET gives a great breakdown of the story of IJN Mikasa, the current museum and includes some fantastic images of the ship.
http://www.cnet.com/news/japans-114-year-old-battleship-mikasa-a-relic-of-another-time/
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Imperial German Navy warships in action during the Battle of Jutland. 31st May - 1st June, 1916 by Claus Bergen.
100 years ago today drew to a close the key naval clash of the First World War.
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Robert Fulton’s Demologos, the world’s first steam warship
Robert Fulton, an American engineer and inventor best known for bringing steamboats to commercial success, also built the world’s first steam-powered warship. Although Demologos, or Fulton the First, heralded the conversion from sail to steam in naval warfare, she never saw battle and met a tragic end in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. For more about Demologos, and Fulton’s earlier experiments with submarines and explosives during the Napoleonic Wars, see “Robert Fulton & the First Steam Warship.”
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Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes test-firing two of her 12-inch guns, circa 1909. Upon completion, she was one of the most powerful dreadnoughts afloat at the time, but the rapidity of the global naval arms race ensured that her technical superiority was short-lived.
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