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Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5736 words) |
 | The head of the Royal Navy is the Lord High Admiral, the overall head of the Armed Forces is the British Sovereign with the two roles currently vested in the same individual, Queen Elizabeth II. |
| The first reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal, as it was then known, occurred in the 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII whose ships, Henri Grâce a Dieu ("Great Harry") and Mary Rose, engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545. |
| During the 19th century the Royal Navy enforced a ban on the slave trade and the suppression of piracy. |
| Battlecruiser at AllExperts (2695 words) |
| The result was a disaster for the Royal Navy's battlecruiser squadrons: Invincible, Queen Mary and Indefatigable exploded with the loss of all but a handful of their crews The German battlecruisers were better armoured, although Lützow was damaged and had to be scuttled, and Seydlitz was heavily damaged. |
| After the war the Royal Navy de-emphasized battlecruisers in the orginal sense of the word and all but three were scrapped by the mid-1930s. |
| They were pursued by the Royal Navy and on one occasion, at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the hunter became the hunted. |
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