Category: ww2 warships
WW2 Japanese Submarines
WW2 Japanese Submarines IJN – About 85 submarines. Introduction: Ideas but wasted opportunities Just like aircraft carriers later, Japan was…
WW2 German Amphibious Ships
Germany (1940-44) – About 500 Amphibious ships German amphibious warfare in WW2: Prahme, converted riverine barges converted as landing ships…
Furutaka class Cruisers (1925)
Furutaka class (1925) Japan, 1925. Heavy Cruisers Furutaka, Kako The First Japanese “washington” cruisers: The two heavy cruisers of the…
Type-VII U-Boats (1933)
Type-VII U-Boats (1933) Germany (1933), About 700 subs A Massive Improvement of U-Boat designs: If German tanks, aircraft and small…
HMS Hood
HMS Hood United Kingdom (1920) – Battlecruiser The “Mighty Hood”, the symbol The HMS Hood is exceptional in more ways…
Königsberg class cruisers (1927)
“K” class light cruisers: Planned 1925, 3 ships Germany (1927), KMS Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln The “K class”, Reichsmarine’s innovative ships:…
British C class cruisers (1914-1922)
United Kingdom (1914-22) 7 sub-classes, 28 cruisers The veteran light cruisers The ‘C’ class were called artificially that way by…
Leander class cruisers (1931)
United Kingdom (1931-35) HMS Leander, Achilles, Ajax, Neptune, Orion, HMAS Perth, Sydney, Hobart The ANZAC light cruisers The 5 Leanders…
Dido class AA cruisers (1939)
United Kingdom (1937-55) Dido, Bonaventure, Naiad, Phoebe, Cleopatra, Charybdis, Euryalus, Hermione, Scylla, Sirius, Argonaut The First Dedicated Royal Navy British…
York class cruisers
United Kingdom – HMS Exeter, HMS York The last British heavy cruisers Development of the “Class B” – York design…
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