Category: ww2 warships
Enterprise class cruisers
United Kingdom (1920) Light Cruisers – Enterprise, Emerald The little known “E” class The two Enterprise (Enterprise and Emerald) or…
WW2 German Destroyers
Germany (1930-44) circa 50 ships Foreworld: German expertise on destroyers proceeded from humble beginnings: The weak TBs from 1910-1914, barely…
Manta
Torpedo semi-submersible rolling Catamaran Germany (1944), Fast Attack Craft, paper project, 1944 A daring concept born from desperation: At the…
Renown class battlecruisers (1916)
Renown class Battlecruisers (1916) HMS Repulse, Renown (1916) Veterans of two wars: The Renown class battlecruisers were initially planned as…
German mini-subs and human torpedoes
German mini-subs and human torpedoes Germany (1944-45) Introduction: K-verband projects: Not a part of the series of famous “V-weapons”, these…
Admirals of WW2
Although the war at sea in Europe saw few “big guns” engagements (no Jutland equivalent here), Admirals still played a…
Aoba class heavy cruisers (1926)
Aoba class heavy cruisers (1926) Japan, 1926. Heavy Cruisers Aoba, Kinugasa The Improved Furutaka The two heavy cruisers of the…
Type II U-Boats (1935)
Type II U-Boats (1935) Germany (1935), 50 Submarines Types IIa, IIb, IIc, IId In 1930, the false Dutch company NV…
German Commerce Raiders
10 German Hilfskreuzer (1937-40): Orion, Atlantis, Widder, Thor, Pinguin, Stier, Komet, Kormoran, Michel Historical Overview Privateers freighters are already a…
