Sea Warfare

Rudyard Kipling

Genre: Historical, Action,Adventure

Language: English

Sea Warfare first appeared in a single publication in 1916 in three parts. The book was written as journalism, in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public realised that World War I certainly was not going to be 'over by Christmas', and wanted to know what the Navy, 'the silent service'. on which so much money had been spent in the decade before the war. was doing.

Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen newspaper articles. Six were published between November 20 to December 2, 1915, to the Daily Telegraph as the name "The Fringes of the Fleet". Three more appeared between June 28, 1916, in The Times as "Tales of trade"  and four more between October 19 and October 31, 1961, in the Daily Telegraph as "Destroyers at Jutland". 

The end of the ‘Great War’ against Napoleonic France had left Great Britain undoubted mistress of the oceans, and the Royal Navy was the largest in the world. This situation remained unchanged until 1914, but the rising power of a unified Germany, not merely economic but in imperial ambitions, had created a perceived threat from the mid-1890s onwards. No nation, except France briefly in the 1860s, had attempted to challenge Britain’s supremacy on the seas, which British eyes saw as being essential for the security of the trade on which the Empire depended and for the physical security of that Empire. But Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, started to build a fleet to support her own growing trade and overseas colonies.