British Navy Grand Fleet Review 55 battleships, 4 fighter aircraft, 55 conventional cruisers, 78 destroyers. More planes, planes and airships. The British press calls it "9 miles of solid ships" on July 20, 1914 - World War I will start in a few days. According to the plan, the ships would disperse to places of permanent basin, and the guards would go home. But the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, takes a complete risk and secretly cancels the order to disband the fleet. As early as July 29, 1914, the armistice mobilized under the pretext of a retreating march from anchorage, passed through the Passage de Clas into the North Sea and took up its fighting positions at Scapa Flow. When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, its navy was already in full control of naval communications. This is how to be ready for war. At least at sea.

British Navy Grand Fleet Review 55 battleships, 4 fighter aircraft, 55 conventional cruisers, 78 destroyers. More planes, planes and airships. The British press calls it "9 miles of solid ships" on July 20, 1914 - World War I will start in a few days. According to the plan, the ships would disperse to places of permanent basin, and the guards would go home. But the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, takes a complete risk and secretly cancels the order to disband the fleet. As early as July 29, 1914, the armistice mobilized under the pretext of a retreating march from anchorage, passed through the Passage de Clas into the North Sea and took up its fighting positions at Scapa Flow. When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, its navy was already in full control of naval communications. This is how to be ready for war. At least at sea.