Description: In the waters off the coast of central Chile an encounter unfolded on 1 November 1914—the Battle of Coronel. The Imperial German Navy, under the command of Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian ...

Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy is an important book for those seeking to understand the factors contributing to the outbreak of World War I. The author, Patrick Kelly, has researched the subject ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The destruction of the High Seas Fleet on June 21, 1919 still marks the greatest destruction of naval power in a single day in modern military history. In a few hours ...

The Imperial German Navy was, in large part, the creation of two men: Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930.) The Kaiser’s mother was an English princess ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Ten battleships, five battlecruisers, four cruisers, and thirty-two destroyers were successfully scuttled. From the German point of view, the operation was an enormous ...

Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis.

LONDON, England (WKRC) - The German Navy was caught sailing down the River Thames to the theme of "The Imperial March." According to the BBC, spectators in London caught a German Navy ship playing ...