English Navy

Surely you must realise what the role of the fleet actually was meant to be. They were meant to have been based off the coast of Europe and bombard the enemy into submission. That is why earlier, before the war, the English and French agreed that the English fleet would operate in the north and that the French fleet would take care of the Med. That is why the French fleet was removed from Brest in 1912.

In the meantime don't fprget the unsinkable Titanic, no ship was unsinkable and what the navy suddenly became aware of was that the ships became unstable in rough seas, they were ok in some conditions but you could never guarantee the conditions. So, just like some of our planes can't fight and fly in certain conditions the ships of the fleet were similarily constrained. They couldn't fire their guns, they were useless. A waste of money and men.

It was down to Churchill, who authorised the change from coal fired ships to oil, look where that took us, dependence on middle east oil. Who do you think was the first to mobilise, yes Britain, Churchill kept the fleet at sea after a naval review. How do you think we got the soldiers so quickly to mainland Europe after war was eventually decalred.