Summary: HMS Iron Duke, commissioned in March 1914, epitomized the “super-dreadnought” class of battleships with its ten 13.5-inch guns and twenty-five thousand ton displacement. As the ...

This was the Battle of Jutland – thousands of deaths, and not the easy victory the Brits were expecting. In fact, it was hard to tell who’d actually won. How did the Brits get it so wrong?