Category: ww1 warships

Powerful class Armoured Cruisers (1895) United Kingdom (1895) – HMS Powerful, HMS Terrible The Anglo-Russian naval arms race Before the…

La Foudre (1895) France (1895) – Torpedo mothership/Seaplane carrier First life: As a torpedo boat mothership The Foudre in still…

D’Iberville class Torpedo Cruisers (1893) France (1893) – Casabianca, Cassini, D’Iberville The D’Iberville class in brief The three ships of…

Dunois class Torpedo Cruisers (1897) France (1897) – Dunois, La Hire A strange mix of characteristics The Torpedo Cruiser was…

Edgar class protected cruisers (1891) United Kingdom (1891) HMS Edgar, Endmyon, Hawke, Gibraltar, Crescent, Royal Arthur, St Georges, Theseus, Grafton…

France (1914) – Bretagne, Provence, Lorraine France’s wartime dreadnoughts Before the war, France’s first dreadnoughts, the Courbet class, just entered…

France (1911) – Courbet, Paris, France, Jean Bart France’s first dreadnoughts wow’s rendition of the Courbet class The Four Courbet…

Brandenburg class Battleships (1892) Germany (1892) – Brandenburg, Wörth (1914) Germany’s first pre-dreadnoughts Certainly the oldest battleships German Navy in…

Active class cruisers United Kingdom (1911) Active, Amphion, Fearless The last prewar scout cruisers This class of three ships were…

Nassau class battleships (1908) SMS Nassau, Rheinland, Posen, Westfalen Germany’s first dreadnoughts The four Nassau (Nassau, Westfalen, Rheinland, Posen) were…