Posted in ww2 US Navy ww2 US subs

Tambor class Submarine

US Navy Submersibles, USS Tambor, Tautog, Thresher, Triton, Trout, Tuna. Sub-class Gar, Grampus, Grayback, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon SS-198-211 (1939-48) The…

Posted in Cold war Australian Navy

Tobruk class Destroyer

RAN Destroyers: DD37-38 HMAS Tobruk, Anzac (1946-53) Australia Day ! We continue a new chapter here, the Australian Cold war…

Posted in ww2 Kriegsmarine

WW2 German Minesweepers

Nazi Germany (1914-45) – 679 M-Boote*, 6 classes. Introduction: The “M-Flotte” of Minensucher (minesweepers) and minelayers (most having this dual…

Posted in ww2 IJN destoyers WW2 Japanese Navy

Akatsuki class Destroyer

IJN “special type” Destroyers built 1930-33. Type III: Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma The Akatsuki-class destroyers (Akatsukigata kuchikukan) were four destroyers…

Posted in WW1 Royal Navy ww2 Royal Navy

Hawkins class cruisers (1920)

British Royal Navy (1920): Hawkins, Frobisher, Effingham, Raleigh, Cavendish/Vindictive Named the “Elisabethan Corsairs” due to their names, the Hawkins-class cruisers…

Posted in Marine-Fliegerabteilung ww1 naval aviation

Friedrichshafen FF.33

Marine-Fliegerabteilung: 470 manufactured 1916-1918. In service until 1929 The Friedrichshafen FF.33 family was the backbone of German naval aviation during…

Posted in ww2 Royal Navy WW2 UK DDs

E/F class Destroyer

Royal Navy (1930-34) E class: Echo, Eclipse, Electra, Encounter, Escapade, Escort, Esk, Express E Flotilla Leader: HMS Exmouth F class:…

Posted in French 1870 Fleet

Couronne (1861)

France 1859-1908, Broadside Ironclad The French ironclad Couronne (“Crown”) was the first iron-hulled ironclad warship built for the then French…

Posted in Cold War RCAN

Iroquois class helicopter destroyer (1970)

Royal Canadian Navy – DDH-280-83 HMCS Iroquois, Huron, Athabaskan, Algonquin. The “Tribals” were a class of Canadian helicopter destroyers, radically…

Posted in ww2 Italian TBs

Pietro Micca (1935)

Oceanic Submersible (1936-43) In the wake of the Ettore Fieramosca (1928), and attempt of submarine cruiser, Pietro Micca was the…