War+At+Sea





The War At Sea had been truly revolutionary in the history of Naval Warfare. In this campaign, we see the first mass deployment of sea mines and U-Boats in warfare. And with this, tactics involving naval warfare also evolved. Along with batteships, blockades were conducted through an experimental use of submarines, while merchant shippings were attacked at a never-before-seen scale. The naval campaigns of world war one also saw the world's first use of aircraft carriers in combat.

In the course of World War, one of the key main factors leading to the defeat of Central Powers came from the War on the Sea. The war at sea was, in a nutshell, a combined Allied effort to blockade the Central Powers (particularly Germany), using their numerically superior fleets and strategic positions as advantages in an effort to stop supplies from reaching these countries, eliminating their trade and slowly starve them to their knees; while the Central Powers struggle to penetrate the blockading fleets, in turn making use of more advanced technology and tactic they possessed, and had even attempted to inflict the same horror on the Allied nations.

The War at sea was mainly waged between the British and German Empires. Both sides used different tactics to counter one another in order to achieve a final victory. In 1914 the most powerful navy in the world was the British navy as it had an overseas empire. The other two respected navies were the French and German, the British were far more superior at with stronger battleships and bigger numbers so the Germans used their new technologies.

German U-boats and their High seas Fleet patrolled the European North Sea and the Atlantic in search of all types of enemy ships to destroy and the British Fleets acted as convoys and guided their ships to safety of the decks, therefore tight battles occured with both sides having similar yet different objectives. This hectic war on the ocean signified the importance of the navy. The war was fought on several battlefields scattered all across the globe as the different armies were desperate to win as the war slowly progressed

This two sided campaign on this new type of fighting ring was a vital factor in the final Allied victory in 1918.

Key Events and Locations in the War At Sea 1914-1918:
Dark Blue Pointers- Main British Naval Ports
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Red Pointers - Main German Naval Ports

Light Blue Line - Allied Mines

Red Line - German Mines

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Red Pins- German Raids

Dark Blue Pins- British Raids

Light Blue Pins- British-initiated naval battles

Light Green Pins- German Attacks- Submarine

Yellow Pins- Battle of Jutland

 Note: Only major events/ multiple sinkings are noted down. Individual sinkings, or Merchant ships raided, which numbers a lot, are not included. ||

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