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Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: March 8, 2020
Posted in ww1 Italian Navy

WW1 Italian Destroyers

Italy (1896-22) 52 ships From Torpedo boats to destroyers Audace in 1918 Development of Italian torpedo boats had a lot…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: March 5, 2020
Posted in Turkish Ottoman Navy

Barbarossa class battleships (1892)

Barbarossa class battleships (1892) Barbaros Hayreddin, Turgut Reis (1910) The Barbarossa class battleships were the first modern pre-dreadnoughts, capital ships…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: March 1, 2020
Posted in ww2 Royal Navy

WW2 British Battleships

WW2 British Battleships United Kingdom (1913-1946) 3 battlecruisers & 18 battleships 1915-1945 WW2 British battleships in 1939 mirrored those in…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 20, 2020
Posted in WW1 French Navy

Battleship Hoche (1886)

France (1881-90) – France’s ‘Grand Hotel’ The Hoche is now as then, the supreme ugly ducking in the nest, a…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 18, 2020
Posted in Naval Tech

Land Battleships

Popular Science article, 1917. As USA entered the war and lacked everything including tanks, PopSci published an article about the…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 16, 2020
Posted in WW1 Japanese Navy

Ironclad IJN Chin Yen (1882)

IJN Chin Yen: The first Japanese Ironclad Imperial Chinese Navy – Imperial Japanese Navy The result of the first Sino-Japanese…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 13, 2020
Posted in Chinese warships

Dingyuan class ironclads (1881)

Dingyuan class ironclads (1881) Chinese Beiyang Fleet The first and last Chinese battleships The present ironclads had many names, in…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 9, 2020
Posted in ww2 US Navy

WW2 American Cruisers

WW2 American Cruisers USA, 1921-1947 – 62 cruisers From Omaha to Worcester, two decades of conventional cruiser development (1918-47) The…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 5, 2020
Posted in ww1 Italian Navy

Quarto (1911)

Quarto (1911) Italy (1911) Scout Cruiser The best Italian scout cruiser The Quarto was the third Italian modern scout cruiser…

Author: naval encyclopedia Published Date: February 3, 2020
Posted in Naval Battles

scuttling of the hochseeflotte (1919)

Scutting of the Hochseeflotte (1919) And the fate of other Central Empires Navies The arrival of German delegates of the…