The Naval Revolution: Triumph and Disaster

Dan Snow uses the 1908 sinking of HMS Tiger as a lens into the pre-dreadnought naval revolution — how steam, steel, and speed transformed warfare at sea faster than doctrine or training could keep up. The episode is properly about the technological and institutional challenges navies faced in adapting to radical change, not just the accident itself. A good entry point for anyone interested in the Fisher-era Royal Navy and the dangerous gap between new capabilities and old seamanship.