When Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 to 1915, he ordered two technical changes to ensure the British fleet stayed more powerful than the expanding German navy.
One adjustment was to develop a 15-inch battleship gun that could fire bigger shells. The other, in 1913, was to convert the British fleet from coal to oil to boost battleship speed.
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