Sailing state
From standing navy to Nelson.
Pepys and Nelson are the two English origin myths -- office and statue. Need both.
Fisher's oil and Dreadnought are the start of the century the statue cannot explain.
Timeline
- Pepys administrative era
A Restoration navy as a paperwork institution.
- Trafalgar
The popular hinge and a death that became a religion.
- Dreadnought
Fisher's political ship.
- Jutland
The battle-line argument of the century.
- First Atlantic crisis
Convoy as a reply that worked -- historically.
- Second Atlantic
Western Approaches as a system.
- Mediterranean under Cunningham
The other English still.
- Korea UN operations
Theseus, Glory, mines -- a footnote that is still a war.
- Shrink and Polaris/Trident politics
A deterrent tenant in a smaller fleet -- see ICBM/submarine pages.
- New carriers as political objects
History of a procurement, not a current air wing list.
Eras
Pax and then race
A long lead, then Germany.
Dreadnought war
Jutland and the first U-boat crisis.
Industrial peak
Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Alliance navy
Korea footnote; shrink; US primacy.
Milestones
Trafalgar, 1805
The civic religion's date.
Jutland, 1916
The argument that replaced a simple win.
Korea, 1950-53
A UN naval war London under-teaches.
A smaller alliance navy is a historical outcome, not a current hull count on this page.
Korea stays in the closing sentence of the twentieth century.