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Powerful class Armoured Cruisers (1895)
United Kingdom (1895) – HMS Powerful, HMS Terrible The Anglo-Russian naval arms race Before the better known anglo-german naval arms…
Seaplane Carrier La Foudre (1895)
France (1895) – Torpedo mothership/Seaplane carrier First life: As a torpedo boat mothership The Foudre in still well remembered from,…
D’Iberville class Torpedo Cruisers (1893)
France (1893) – Casabianca, Cassini, D’Iberville The D’Iberville class in brief The three ships of this class, Casabianca, Cassini and…
Dunois class Torpedo Cruisers (1897)
France (1897) – Dunois, La Hire A strange mix of characteristics The Torpedo Cruiser was a development of the controversial…
Admiral Souchon’s Escape (3-8 August 1914)
German Navy 3-8 August 1914 Prelude to War: The Mediterranean Squadron On 2 August 1914, the declaration of war was…
Edgar class protected cruisers (1891)
United Kingdom (1891) HMS Edgar, Endmyon, Hawke, Gibraltar, Crescent, Royal Arthur, St Georges, Theseus, Grafton Among the oldest cruisers in…
Naval History
An intro to naval history Prehistoric boats, dugout, canoe rafts, reed boats, skin boats. The Polynesians pioneers From skinboats to…
Bretagne class Dreadnought Battleships (1914)
France (1914) – Bretagne, Provence, Lorraine France’s wartime dreadnoughts Before the war, France’s first dreadnoughts, the Courbet class, just entered…
Brandenburg class Battleships (1892)
Germany (1892) – Brandenburg, Wörth (1914) Germany’s first pre-dreadnoughts Certainly the oldest battleships German Navy in 1914, two were left…
The Königin Luise Event (5 August 1914)
United Kingdom vs. Germany First naval action of the war The very first action of the great war occurred on…
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