Category: ww2 Royal Navy
River (Thames) class submersibles (1932)
Oceanic Submersibles 1931-1945: HMS Thames (N71), HMS Severn (N57), HMS Clyde (N12) Britain’s last Fleet submarines HMS Clyde underway for…
King George V class Battleships (1939)
King Georges V class fast battleships (1938) United Kingdom (1937-1941)King Georges V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Howe, Anson…
River class Frigates (1942)
River class Frigates (1942) United Kingdom/Canada – (1942-45): 151 ships. The River class frigates built in large quantities by UK…
Flower class Corvettes (1940)
United Kingdom/Canada – (1940-45): 263 ships*. The cheap answer to British ASW warfare The Flower class corvettes were a serie…
HMS Audacity (1941)
HMS Audacity (1941) United Kingdom – (1938-1941) The first British RN Escort Aircraft Carrier The Royal Navy’s first escort carrier…
HMS Argus (1917)
Fleet (later Training) Aircraft Carrier United Kingdom (1914-1944) Forty years of career and two wars To the exception of HMS…
N3 (St Andrews) class Battleships (1918)
United Kingdom (1918-1922) -Unbuilt. The first true British “hyper-dreadnoughts” Comparison G3/N3 The term “super-dreadnought” was already coined when the Orion…
Implacable class fleet aircraft carriers (1942)
Implacable class Aircraft Carriers United Kingdom: HMS Implacable, Indefatigable (1942) The Illustrious near sister ships The Implacable-class were two aircraft…
Crown Colony class cruisers (1936)
Fiji (“Crown Colony”) class Cruisers United Kingdom (1939-42) HMS Fiji, Nigeria, Mauritius, Kenya, Trinidad, Jamaica, Gambia, Bermuda, Ceylon, Uganda, Newfoundland…
Illustrious class aircraft carriers (1939)
Illustrious, Formidable, Victorious, Indomitable (137-69) An introduction: Probably as famous for the Royal Navy the Yorktown class were for the…
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