Englishman Oscar Parks never belonged to the circle of people directly associated with the design or construction of heavy armored ships of the British Navy. He did not have the opportunity to command any battleship of the Royal Navy. However, it was he, a doctor - a man of a purely humane profession - and an artist by vocation, who was lucky enough to leave the deepest mark in the historiography of the British type of battleship, the heyday and greatness of which occurred precisely during the period of the greatest rise of the British Empire from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.< /p>