Category: ww2 Royal Navy

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)
Flower class Corvettes (1940) United Kingdom/Canada – (1940-45): 263 ships*. The cheap answer to British ASW warfare The Flower class…
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)
N3 class Battleships (1918) United Kingdom (1918-1922) -Unbuilt. The first true British “hyper-dreadnoughts” Comparison G3/N3 The term “super-dreadnought” was already…
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…
HMS Adventure (1923)
United Kingdom – Minelayer Cruiser (1923-47) The first dedicated British minelayer cruiser With the unusual pennant number M23, HMS Adventure…
Revenge class Battleships (1915)
Revenge class Battleships (1915) Revenge, Ramillies, Resolution, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign. The Revenge class battleships: Super-dreadnoughts on a budget Overshadowed…