The Battle of Jutland – 100 years on TAGS: Battle of Jutland | German Fleet | Grand Fleet | High Seas Fleet | My boy Jack | Navy | Rudyard Kipling | Scapa Flow | Sea Warfare | World War I | WW1 This week sees the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest and most important naval engagement of the First World War, and also a particularly Scottish event, as …Continue reading →

‘Der Tag’, Grand Fleets, and ‘Kia ora’: HMS New Zealand and the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, 21st November, 1918 TAGS: Armistice | Der Tag | Forth Estuary | German Fleet | H.M.S. New Zealand | Kia Ora | Navy | new zealand | P. J. Voysey | Scapa Flow In March 1991 the Government of New Zealand presented Edinburgh University Library with the Library of New Zealand House, London. The New Zealand Studies Collection has recently been catalogued and …Continue reading →