In 1914 the Royal Navy was by a wide margin the most ground-breaking naval force on the planet. The Royal Navy's fundamental duties included policing provinces and exchange courses, protecting coastlines and forcing barricades on antagonistic forces. The British government took the view that to do this, the Royal Navy needed to have a battlefleet that was bigger than the world's two next biggest naval forces set up together.
After the flare-up of the First World War, the greater part of the Royal Navy's extensive boats were positioned at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys or Rosyth in Scotland in preparation to stop any vast scale breakout endeavor by the Germans. England's cruisers, destroyers, submarines and light powers were bunched around the British drift.
In August 1914 Admiral Sir David Beatty concocted an arrangement to draw the German Navy into a noteworthy ocean fight. Beatty utilized two light cruisers, the Fearless and Arethusa and 25 destroyers to attack German ships near the German maritime base at Heligoland. At the point when the German Navy reacted to the assault, Beatty presented the ships, New Zealand and Invincible and three battlecruisers. In the fight that took after, the Germans lost three German cruisers and a destroyer. The British ship, the Arethusa was severely harmed yet was towed home to security.
The British Navy endured three early stuns. On 22nd September 1914, German U-vessels pulverized the Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue with the loss of 1,400 mariners. This was trailed by Audacious, a gunboat finished in late 1913, sinking in the wake of hitting a mine off the northern bank of Ireland. After this, the Royal Navy turned out to be exceptionally careful and limited itself to unadventurous compasses of the North Sea.
In December 1914 Admiral Franz von Hipper and the First High Seas Fleet besieged the coastal towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby. The assault murdered 18 regular citizens and made a lot of outrage against Germany and the Royal Navy for neglecting to secure the British drift.
Chief of naval operations Hipper intended to make another assault on 23rd January 1915, however, this time his armada was blocked by Admiral David Beatty and six quick cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers. The British shells harmed the boats, Sydlitz and Boucher yet the German's countered and harmed Beatty's banner ship, the Lion. A while later, the two sides a short time later asserted Dogger Bank as a triumph.
The main real wartime showdown between the Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet occurred at Jutland on 31st May 1916. The Royal Navy was stunned by the result considering that it unmistakably dwarfed German powers (151 to 99). In any case, Jutland was viewed as a triumph by the British authorities since it fortified Britain had summoned over the North Sea.
After Jutland, the Royal Navy's fundamental distraction was the fight against the German U-Boats. The war against submarines in the Mediterranean and home waters was indispensable to the British war exertion and it was not until the pre-winter of 1917 that the transportation of troops and supplies from the British Empire to Europe could be made with certainty.