Category: ww1 warships
Battleship Hoche (1886)
France (1881-90) – France’s ‘Grand Hotel’ The Hoche is now as then, the supreme ugly ducking in the nest, a…
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…
Quarto (1911)
Quarto (1911) Italy (1911) Scout Cruiser The best Italian scout cruiser The Quarto was the third Italian modern scout cruiser…
WW1 British Seaplane Carriers
WW1 British Seaplane Carriers United Kingdom (1914-21) 17 ships Pioneer in naval air warfare You would be surprised that on…
Chikuma class cruisers (1911)
Chikuma class cruisers (1911) Japan (1911) Chikuma, Yahagi, Hirado The Japanese turbine Cruisers: The three cruisers described here are in…
HMS Tiger (1913)
HMS Tiger (1913) United Kingdom (1913) Battlecruiser The HMS Tiger: Feline beauty and hard shell Described by historian John Keegan…
Nino Bixio class cruisers (1912)
Nino Bixio class cruisers (1912) Italy (1912) Nino Bixio, Marsala The first modern Italian scouts The Nino Bixio class were…
Doria class battleships (1916)
Italy (1916/1937) Battleships Caio Duilio, Andrea Doria Cavour’s sister class: Doria The Andrea Doria class (or Caio Duilio class for…
WW1 French Cruisers
France (1870-1912) – About 60 cruisers The armoured cruiser Condé, from the Gloire class, seen from the Romanov Shtandard Imperial…
Holland class cruisers (1895)
The Netherlands – 1895-97: HNLMS Holland, Zeeland, Friesland, Gelderland, Noordbrabant, Utrecht. The Dutch Apollo-like cruisers after the Apollo class cruisers…
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