Category: Coldwar Ships
Type 024 Hoku class FAC (1965)
Type 024 Hoku class FAC (1965) PCFG Houku/Hegu Class, Type 024 aka Project 24/EM1A. Chinese PLAN (1968-77) – about 110…
De Grasse (1946)
French Navy (1946-1976) De Grasse was the first French post-WW2 cruiser completed, with Colbert. Both their stories went back to…
USS United States (CVA-58)
USS United States (1949) – The atomic carrier 1 laid down (April 1949) The missing link between the wartime Essex…
Surcouf (T47) class destroyers (1956)
French Navy AA destroyers (Built 1951-57, service until 1974-88): Surcouf, Kersaint, Cassard, Bouvet, Dupetit-Thouars, Chevalier Paul, Maillé-Brézé, Vauquelin, D’Estrées, Du…
Guppy class Submarines (1946-59)
70+ submarine conversions 1947-1959 Guppy I, IA, IB, II, IIA, III, Fleet Snorkel The ‘Fleet Snorkels’ to the rescue Although…
Missile cruiser Garibaldi (1960)
Missile cruiser Garibaldi (1960) Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936), converted 1957-61, in service 1962-1972 The Condottieri are back in action! In 1948,…
Quebec class submarines (1950)
Project 615 – NATO “Quebec” 30 submarines (1950-54) Preserved M-296 These thirty conventional attack submarines called internally project 615, were…
Cold War Soviet Submarines
Cold War Soviet Submarines circa 1,450 submarines 1950-90 Introduction The Soviet silent service in the cold war: Like in the…
Vietnam Naval Warfare
Operations, ships, organization – 1965-1975 The longest conflict of the cold war USS Intrepid, south China sea 1965 The war…
Chapayev class cruisers
Project 68 Chapayev class cruisers (1941) 5 cruisers (1941): Chapayev, Zheleznyakov, Kuybyshev, Chkalov, Frunze The Chapayev class cruisers were a…