The history of the Arab slave trade up to the treaties that created the Moresby Line to limit the Indian Ocean slave trade by preventing the importation of slaves to British controlled areas of India from land ruled by Omani Arabs in East Africa. An annotated script for this talk on the beginning of the Royal Navy's fight against the Arab Slave Trade along with all of the sources can be found on our website.

The Anglo-Zanzibar was so short that the civilians who sought shelter on Royal Navy ships were able to return home in time for lunch. This is how it happened.

Jutland was the first sea battle were airpower would also play a part with the seaplane from HMS Engadine being used for artillery spotting. The pilot of this aeroplane was already a highflier having already made the leap from the lower deck, having begun his career as a Boy Seaman. But his fall, during the Second World War, would be even further.

The Battle of Jutland was not the last time that British and German battle fleets were hunting for each other on the cold waters of the North Sea

The battle was over but the arguments about who had won the battle of Jutland began even before all of the ships had returned to port, with many of those involved trying to use it for their benefit.

As the Battle of Jutland drew to a close the British Grand Fleet lay between the German High Seas fleet and their home port trapping them in the North Sea. They had already clashed with the Royal Navy twice, and come off worse each time. Admiral Scheer knew if they found him when morning came he was done for, but he had an audacious plan to use the darkness to his advantage.

Having discovered the entire British Grand Fleet baring down on him Admiral Sheer had no choice but to turn away and try to save his fleet, but the battle was still far from over.

The Battle of Jutland can be divided into three sections. This video will cover the third part of the battle and the largest the clash of the battleships that the world would ever see.

Admiral Beatty's Battle Cruisers continue to get pummelled by the Germans as they run to the north

The British ship fleet had been pummelled during the Run to the South, and their trouble was only just beginning. They were not just fighting Hipper and his battle-cruisers, but the entire German High Seas Fleet. Beatty turns his ships and begins the run to the north, but while this was going on there was another battle taking place between the flotillas of torpedo boats, and torpedo boat destroyers, know to the Germans as the Sea Cossacks.