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Kearsage class battleships (1898)

USA (1896-99) USS Kearsarge, Kentucky The tandem turreted battleships: The Kearsarge class was certainly not the best remembered of the…

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Komar class FACs (1960)

Komar class FACs (1960) Proyekt 183R – 112 boats 1952-60 The world’s first Fast Attack Crafts: USSR in the early…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…