Category: ww1 warships
Marco Polo (1892)
Marco Polo (1892) Italian Armoured Cruiser (1888) The First Italian Armoured Cruiser The Marco Polo was the first Italian armoured…
Jurien de la Gravière (1899)
France (1899) – Protected Cruiser A “tin-clad cruiser” The term was used often to describe rival Italian and French cruisers…
Orion class Battleships (1911)
Orion class Battleships (1911) United Kingdom (1911) Orion, Monarch, Conqueror, Thunderer. Built in emergency Built in the emergency plan of…
Grillo class tracked torpedo launches
Grillo class tracked torpedo launches (1918) Italy (1918) Tracked MTB or amphibious tank ? The Grillo is one of the…
Drake class Armoured Cruisers (1901)
Drake class Armoured Cruisers (1901) United Kingdom (1901) Drake, Good Hope, King Alfred, Leviathan. A new class of large armoured…
Renown class battlecruisers (1916)
Renown class Battlecruisers (1916) HMS Repulse, Renown (1916) Veterans of two wars: The Renown class battlecruisers were initially planned as…
Edgar Quinet class armoured cruisers (1907)
France (1907): Edgar Quinet, Waldeck-Rousseau France’s last armoured cruisers The last French cruiser-battleships, and by far the most imposing, were…
Re Umberto class ironclads (1883)
Re Umberto class ironclads (1883) Italy (1883) Re Umberto, Sicilia, Sardegna A new kind of battleship In 1883, the first…
WW1 British Submarines
WW1 British Submarines United Kingdom (1890-1918) About 350 subs 1885-1921. Overview of British ww1 submarines In the general sense, the…
Etna class protected cruisers (1885)
Etna class protected cruisers (1885) Italy (1885) Etna, Vesuvio, Stromboli, Fieramosca The first Italian modern protected cruisers: Etna was the…
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