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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…
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…
WW1 Italian Destroyers
Italy (1896-22) 52 ships From Torpedo boats to destroyers Audace in 1918 Development of Italian torpedo boats had a lot…
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…
WW2 British Battleships
WW2 British Battleships United Kingdom (1913-1946) 3 battlecruisers & 18 battleships 1915-1945 WW2 British battleships in 1939 mirrored those in…
Battleship Hoche (1886)
France (1881-90) – France’s ‘Grand Hotel’ The Hoche is now as then, the supreme ugly ducking in the nest, a…
Land Battleships
Popular Science article, 1917. As USA entered the war and lacked everything including tanks, PopSci published an article about the…
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…
Dingyuan class ironclads (1881)
Dingyuan class ironclads (1881) Chinese Beiyang Fleet The first and last Chinese battleships The present ironclads had many names, in…
WW2 American Cruisers
WW2 American Cruisers USA, 1921-1947 – 62 cruisers From Omaha to Worcester, two decades of conventional cruiser development (1918-47) The…