An original pre WWI First World War ' Tower Tea Ltd ' decorative pictorial tin. The tin container depicts Royal Navy warships of the Anglo-German Naval arms race. Featuring ' HMS Dreadnought ' to the lid surrounded by a rope and anchor painted border. Each side of the tin shows a Royal Naval vessel comprising of HMS TarTar, HMS Forward, HMS Devonshire and Submarine C.II. Tower Tea Ltd stamped to the bottom. Measures approx 8x16x16 The arms race between Great Britain and Germany that occurred from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the advent of World War I in 1914 was one of the intertwined causes of that conflict. While based in a bilateral relationship that had worsened over many decades, the arms race began with a plan by German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in 1897 to create a fleet in being to force Britain to make diplomatic concessions; Tirpitz did not expect the Imperial German Navy to defeat the Royal Navy.
An original pre WWI First World War ' Tower Tea Ltd ' decorative pictorial tin. The tin container depicts Royal Navy warships of the Anglo-German Naval arms race. Featuring ' HMS Dreadnought ' to the lid surrounded by a rope and anchor painted border. Each side of the tin shows a Royal Naval vessel comprising of HMS TarTar, HMS Forward, HMS Devonshire and Submarine C.II. Tower Tea Ltd stamped to the bottom. Measures approx 8x16x16 The arms race between Great Britain and Germany that occurred from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the advent of World War I in 1914 was one of the intertwined causes of that conflict. While based in a bilateral relationship that had worsened over many decades, the arms race began with a plan by German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in 1897 to create a fleet in being to force Britain to make diplomatic concessions; Tirpitz did not expect the Imperial German Navy to defeat the Royal Navy.
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