Elsewhere in Europe, the Royal Navy forged ahead with its adoption of radar. The equipment furnishing the Welle formed the basis for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) Seetakt system. In 1935, a research ship called Welle became the world’s first vessel equipped with a naval surveillance radar.
During the 1930s German scientific interest in radar initially focused on its feasibility as a mechanism to detect ships. The Second World War saw naval radar come of age.
