Category: ww1 warships
WW1 Japanese Destroyers
WW1 Japanese Destroyers Japan (1898-1919) – About 180 ships A newcomer in destroyer design WW2 Japanese destroyers were certainly among…
WW1 French Battlecruisers (Projects)
WW1 French Battlecruisers (Projects) Paper projects (1913) French what-if battlecruisers A bit provocative in its title, this article is dedicated…
Cavour class battleships
Regia Marina (1911) Battleships Guilio Cesare, Conte di Cavour, Leonardo Da Vinci The new Italian Battleships The first Italian dreadnought…
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)
United Kingdom (1901) Drake, Good Hope, King Alfred, Leviathan. A new class of large armoured cruisers The 1897 Powerful class…
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…
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