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Ise class battleships (1917)
Imperial Japanese Navy IJN Ise, Hyūga 1915-1945. From super-dreadnoughts to hybrid battleships: Ise and Hyūga were two fast dreadnoughts built…
WW2 Italian Submarines
About 113 submersibles The Regia Marina in 1939 had far more submarines than Germany, 116 (107 for other sources) versus…
Battle of Elli and Lemnos (1912-13)
Greek Navy vs Turkish Ottoman Navy The Battles of the Aegean sea, a prelude to the great war at sea…
Type 053H Jianghu class Frigates (1974)
Chinese PLAN (1974-96) – 18 ships The Type 053 was the staple of Chinese PLAN late cold war frigates. The…
Tri Sviatitelia (1894)
Tri Sviatitelia (1894) Russian Battleship (1894) The “Three Holy Hierarchs” was an early 1890s pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian…
WW2 British Aircraft Carriers
WW2 British Aircraft Carriers Circa 52 aircraft carriers, built and started WW2 The leading nation in aircraft carriers: If the…
HMS Duke of Wellington (1852)
Steamship of the line. Royal Navy in the Crimean War. Star of the show: HMS Duke of Wellington (1852) The…
USS Langley (1920)
USS Langley (CV-1) (1920) USA (1920) – Aircraft Carrier The First American Aircraft Carrier (CV-1): Barely one year after the…
WW2 German submarines: U-Boats
You certainly have heard of the Type VIIC and the Type IX which roamed the seas during WW2 and almost strangled seaways to UK in 1942-43. But over 1,100 U-Boats has been built during this war, mostly deployed in the Atlantic and over twenty-four types designed, many if which were left as paper projects…
Fuso class battleships (1915)
Fuso class battleships (1915) Japan, 1915. Fuso, Yamashiro. The first Japanese-designed super-dreadnought: These powerful dreadnoughts were far-off derivatives of the…
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