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CSS Savannah (1863)
Confederate Navy CSS Savannah CSS Savannah was part of the larger Richmond-class, one of the two classes or casemate ironclad…
Operation Vado (13-14 June 1940)
There is an aspect of the French Campaign of 1940 which often overlooked: Despite the bulk of the action occured…
Poltava class Battleships (1894)
Poltava class Battleships (1894) Russia (1894) Petropavovsk, Sevastopol, Poltava Before the Petropavlovsk class dreadnoughts, Russia built locally a class of…
Seeteufel (1944)
Seeteufel (1944) Germany (1944) Genesis of a tracked submarine The Seeteufel “Monkfish” was an evolution of the concept of human…
Monmouth class Armoured Cruisers (1901)
United Kingdom (1899-1906), 10 armoured cruisers: Monmouth, Bedford, Essex, Kent, Berwick, Cornwall, Cumberland, Donegal, Lancaster, Suffolk. The other County Class…
CSS Frederickburg (1862)
Confederate Navy CSS Fredericksburg Born in Richmond The CSS Fredericksburg was born in Richmond, between 1862 and 1863, and was…
Shikishima class battleships (1898)
Shikishima class battleships (1898) Japan (1898) – Shikishima, Hatsuse The Fuji improved: The Shikishima and Hatsuse were built in two…
Unadilla class gunboats (1861)
Union Navy USS Unadilla, lead ship of the ’90 days’ schooners The “90 days schooners”. Soon, during civil war, the…
SMS Sankt Georg (1903)
SMS Sankt Georg (1903) Austro-Hungarian armoured cruiser The last Austrian armoured cruiser: After the Kaiser Karl IV’s departure, the admiralty…
WW1 French Destroyers
WW1 French Destroyers France (1899-1918), about 90 destroyers Foreworld After having turned hundreds of torpedo boats in two decades under…
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