The grey skies above Chatham Naval memorial were appropriate for the sombre mood as Medway commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Jutland yesterday. The memorial in the Great Lines Heritage park, ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

The biggest naval confrontation of World War I, the Battle of Jutland in 1916, also has the distinction of being the first battle during which a plane was launched from an aircraft carrier. The pilot ...

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 ...