Naval warfare of World War I
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Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Ce
Clockwise from top left: the Cornwallis fires in Suvla Bay, Dardanelles 1915; U-boats moored in Kiel, around 1914; a lifeboat departs from an Allied ship hit by a German torpedo, around 1917; two Italian MAS in practice in the final stages of the war; manoeuvres of the Austro-Hungarian fleet with the Tegetthoff in the foreground
SMS Rheinland, a Nassau-class battleship, Germany's first response to Dreadnought
U-boat sinking a troopship, painting by Willy Stöwer
Battle of Coronel
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The Battle of Coronel was a First World War naval battle that led to an Imperial German Navy victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. Th
Die Seeschlacht bei Coronel, Hans Bohrdt
Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee
Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock
SMS Scharnhorst