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Vettor Pisani class armoured cruisers (1895) Italy (1895) – Vettor Pisani, Carlo Alberto These two armoured cruisers succeeded the unique…

Germany (1901-1918) About 630 subs* The invention of submarine warfare: Germany did not invented the submarine but its use in…

1853-1856 The Crimean War: Generalities The largest war of the 1850s The Crimean War (1853–1856) was a major conflict fought…

USA (1888) USS Baltimore, Philadelphia Although you are probably more familiar to the WW2 Baltimore class heavy cruisers, there was…

THE CONFEDERATE NAVY (CSS) The confederate fleet was actually more the amount of ships that were seized in the Confederate…

Soviet Navy The Krasny Kavkaz is singular in more ways than one: Firstly because she was an old ship completely…

British P-Boats (1915) United Kingdom (1915-18) Submarine-chasers, 43 ships The Mass-built British ww1 sub-chasers The submarine total war in the…

SMS Kaiser Karl IV (1898) Pre-dreadnought Battleship The Kaiser Karl IV, second armoured cruiser: Assuming that the KuK Maria Theresia…

Above: The position of Lusitania during its sinking After the famous Titanic, sunk in peacetime, the sinking of the Lusitania…

France (1923-1940), about 80 subs Post WW1 policy cleanup After the great war, the move started in 1912 towards a…