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Royal Navy (1890-91) – 21 cruisers The ‘Mythologic’ 2nd class protected cruisers The Apollo class were in WW1 already in…

Pao Min (1885) Chinese Nanyang Fleet One of the forgotten gunboat-size Chinese cruisers – In 1880 the concept of cruiser…

4 ships (1930) Giussano, Barbiano, Colleoni, Bande Nere. The famous “Condotierri” cruiser class was an invention from postwar authors, trying…

USA – 46 battleships The development of WW1 era American battleship really started with the USS Texas in 1890. Despite…

HMS Hood United Kingdom (1920) – Battlecruiser The “Mighty Hood”, the symbol The HMS Hood is exceptional in more ways…

Java class cruisers (1921) The Netherlands – 1921 The battling Dutch cruisers The three cruisers of the Java class were…

Yavuz (1914) Germany/Turkey – 1911 (1914) An unexpected Turkish flagship – The Yavuz Sultan Selim, aka “Yavuz” became in August…

Japan (1906) Satsuma, Aki The original half-dreadnoughts: The 薩摩型戦艦 Satsuma-gata senkan class was ordered in late 1904, under the War…

USA/Greece – (1906) Kilkis, Lemnos The first Hellenic battleships – Before the Kilkis class, there was the Mississippi class. They…

Spanish Armada – 17 submersibles (1865-1945) Iberian pioneers of Submersibles The submarine has many fathers. Among the pioneering nations, Spain…