A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Monday, May 6, 2013

German Dreadnought Launched.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 6, 1913:
HAMBURG, May 5.— A new dreadnought battleship was launched here today to take the place of the old Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, sold to Turkey in 1910. The ship was named Grosser Kurfürst by Prince Oskar, fifth son of the Emperor. She is a sister ship of the König, launched on March 1, and is designed to displace 27,000 tons. It is believed that she is to be armed with ten 14-inch guns.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, May 6, 2013

German Dreadnought Launched.

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