Samuel Pepys
The Restoration paperwork name -- a navy as an office, not only a battle.
Era
3
Role
3
Point
3
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale60
Intensity48
Duration88
Tech shift65
Political impact80
Cultural memory76
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Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
Why Trafalgar?
21 October 1805 ended a combined Franco-Spanish battle fleet as a threat in that war and killed Nelson into a civic religion. It did not freeze naval history.
What was Jutland?
The 31 May-1 June 1916 North Sea clash. Tactically disappointing for British hopes; the blockade continued. Memoirs split Jellicoe and Beatty for a century.
How did U-boats change the RN?
In 1917 and again in 1940-43 they made escort, air, and convoy the surviving problem. See the submarine page.
Did the RN fight in Korea?
Yes -- UN naval operations, including British light carriers and minesweeping. Thinner in UK public memory than the Glorious Glosters' Imjin story.
Is this a current fleet list?
No. Era-bounded force-structure history. No live hull list, no patrol tracker.
The column in Trafalgar Square, a dreadnought postcard, a Liverpool convoy museum, a Theseus flight-deck photo in a thin Korea album.
Churchill in a navy coat as a political icon.
People
Horatio Nelson
Trafalgar's dead victor -- a civic saint whose statue hides the later oil-and-escort navy.
Battle
3
Death
3
Point
3
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Dreadnought and a reform generation -- the 1900s political sailor.
Ship
3
Role
3
Era
3
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Jutland's Grand Fleet commander -- the cautious name in the English split.
Battle
3
Role
3
Debate
3
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
The battlecruiser name in the same split -- memoirs as a civil religion.
Battle
3
Role
3
Debate
3
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Mediterranean 1940-43 -- Taranto as a dated strike in the public file, not a method to copy.
Theatre
3
Era
3
Point
3
Winston Churchill
A political master of the RN story -- Dardanelles stain and 1940 fame together.
Role
3
Stain
3
Fame
3
William Andrewes
A named RN commander in the Korean UN naval war -- the footnote this atlas refuses to drop.
War
3
Role
3
Point
3
Debate
Did Jellicoe "lose the war in an afternoon" or save the blockade?
The English argument of 1916. Most staff histories now stress the strategic hold. Memoirs still feud.
Statue navy vs escort navy
Which RN should be taught -- 1805 or 1942? This atlas wants both, in that order of myth and that order of industrial truth reversed.
A Hornblower novel is a doorway, not a log.
A modern recruiting film is not this page.