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Weekly Fleet ! Costa Rica Guarda Costas

Costa Rica is one of the rare countries that renounced its army in 1948 and only had since a “civil…

Posted in Cold War Dutch Navy

Friesland class destroyers (1956)

Koninklijke Marine Destroyers: Onderzeebootjager Typ 47B (later Typ 49), Built 1951-56. HNLMS Friesland, Groningen, Limburg, Overijssel, Drenthe, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam…

Posted in WW1 Royal Navy

British Early Turbine Destroyers

United Kingdom (1899-1922): HMS Viper, Cobra, Velox. Royal Navy’s early turbine destroyers were driven by the inability of the 33-knotters…

Posted in U-Boats ww2 Kriegsmarine

Type XXIII U-Boats (1944)

Nazi Germany, 980 planned, 61 completed (1944-45) The true Elektroboot The Type XXI were large scale production Kriegsmarine’s “wunderwaffe” planned…

Posted in 1890 fleets War of 1898

USS Maine (1889)

USA – Armoured Cruiser 1888-1898 USS Maine was the first USN armoured cruiser made famous by the war she indirectly…

Posted in 1870 Fleets 1870 Italian Fleet

Roma class ironclads (1864)

Italian Regia Marina, 1863-1896: RM Pirofrigata Roma, Venezia The Roma class ironclads were built in Italy for the Italian Regia…

Posted in WW1 Royal Navy ww1 UK DD

33 Knotters

United Kingdom (1896-1921) C class: 3 ships. Development At the end of the process of ordering faster and faster “torpedo…

Posted in Coldwar Soviet Ships

Poti class Corvettes (1960)

66 completed under Project 204/204E 1960-68 MPK-1 to 136 (random numbers), in service until 2005, also used by the Bulgarian…

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New fleet ! The Cambodian Navy

The Royal Cambodian Navy (កងទ័ពជើងទឹក ”Naval Army”) is part of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces under MoD direction and estimated 4,000 active…

Posted in ww1 Italian Navy

Aquila class cruisers (scouts) (1916)

Scouts (cruisers) 1914-1950: Aquila, Sparviero, Nibbio, Falco (eagle, sparrowhawk, kite, falcon). Later Mărăști and Mărașești (1920), Ceuta and Melilla (1937),…