Posted in WW1 Royal Navy ww2 Royal Navy

Hawkins class cruisers (1920)

British Royal Navy (1920): Hawkins, Frobisher, Effingham, Raleigh, Cavendish/Vindictive Named the “Elisabethan Corsairs” due to their names, the Hawkins-class cruisers…

Posted in Marine-Fliegerabteilung ww1 naval aviation

Friedrichshafen FF.33

Marine-Fliegerabteilung: 470 manufactured 1916-1918. In service until 1929 The Friedrichshafen FF.33 family was the backbone of German naval aviation during…

Posted in ww2 Royal Navy WW2 UK DDs

E/F class Destroyer

Royal Navy (1930-34) E class: Echo, Eclipse, Electra, Encounter, Escapade, Escort, Esk, Express E Flotilla Leader: HMS Exmouth F class:…

Posted in French 1870 Fleet

Couronne (1861)

France 1859-1908, Broadside Ironclad The French ironclad Couronne (“Crown”) was the first iron-hulled ironclad warship built for the then French…

Posted in Website News

New Page: Saudi Arabia Navy

The Royal Saudi Navy (formally known as the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, or RSNF) is the naval branch of the…

Posted in Cold War RCAN

Iroquois class helicopter destroyer (1970)

Royal Canadian Navy – DDH-280-83 HMCS Iroquois, Huron, Athabaskan, Algonquin. The “Tribals” were a class of Canadian helicopter destroyers, radically…

Posted in ww2 Italian TBs

Pietro Micca (1935)

Oceanic Submersible (1936-43) In the wake of the Ettore Fieramosca (1928), and attempt of submarine cruiser, Pietro Micca was the…

Posted in ww1 US Navy

Columbia class cruiser (1892)

USA (1890-94): Protected Cruiser C-12 Columbia, C-13 Minneapolis 1894-1921 The Columbia-class were two protected cruisers started in 1890 and 1891…

Posted in soviet submarines

Victor I class submarine (1965)

Project 671 Yorsh (NATO “VICTOR I”) nuclear attack submarines 15 submarines: K-38, 69, 147, 53, 306, 323, 370, 438, 367,…

Posted in brazilian navy

Amazonas class Destroyer (1943)

Marinha do Brasil: 6 Destroyers built 1940-51, service until 1974 In short, the Acre class were the first modern destroyers…

Naval Encyclopedia

Naval Encyclopedia provides a one-stop place for everything related to naval warfare through ships classes, going back to antiquity to the present day, with particular focus on WW1, WW2 and the cold war, with daily articles and weekly fleets. This is a long endeavour, with future entries in opacity both in the top and side menus. Naval encyclopedia also goes through some civilian aspects (clippers, liners, oil platforms, naval tech in general) and battles/tactics as well.

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