admin7126 Germany (1901-1918) About 630 subs* The invention of submarine warfare: Germany did not invented the submarine but its use in a large scale. That new concept was the submarine warfare, which almost had better result at sea when on land all offensives failed. So strong was this idea that it resurfaced in ww2, with greater … Read more
1853-1856 The Crimean War: Generalities The largest war of the 1850s The Crimean War (1853–1856) was a major conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain, and Sardinia. It was primarily sparked by disputes over Christian holy sites in the Ottoman-controlled Holy Land and the declining power of … Read more
USA (1888) USS Baltimore, Philadelphia Although you are probably more familiar to the WW2 Baltimore class heavy cruisers, there was already a class of this name in the 1880s. These were excellent ships built in Cramp on an English design (Eltswick), which served during the Spanish-American War of 1898, but placed in reserve in 1904. … Read more
THE CONFEDERATE NAVY (CSS) The confederate fleet was actually more the amount of ships that were seized in the Confederate ports and captured or requisitioned vessels than a coherent pre-existing fleet. The Confederates tried to cope with the huge industrial and technical resources of the Union, massive private arsenals, engineers and manpower, while trying revolutionary … Read more
Soviet Navy The Krasny Kavkaz is singular in more ways than one: Firstly because she was an old ship completely redesigned and rebuilt (a cruiser of the Svetlana class first drawn in 1913), but also by her main armament and general configuration. At the time, she was to be assigned to the Pacific fleet, opposed … Read more
British P-Boats (1915) United Kingdom (1915-18) Submarine-chasers, 43 ships The Mass-built British ww1 sub-chasers The submarine total war in the Atlantic by 1914-18 was no less savage and critical than in the second world war. With her fleet prisoner of the Baltic and confined to the western cost of Denmark, the German Empire unleashed dozens … Read more
SMS Kaiser Karl IV (1898) Pre-dreadnought Battleship The Kaiser Karl IV, second armoured cruiser: Assuming that the KuK Maria Theresia had been a semi-failure, the new director of shipbuilding, Friedrich Popper decided to create a new armoured cruiser inspired this time concepts used for the Habsburg. The result is a much larger, more stable and … Read more
Above: The position of Lusitania during its sinking After the famous Titanic, sunk in peacetime, the sinking of the Lusitania remains one of the greatest maritime tragedies in history, whose consequences have been decisive as a triggering factor of the entry into the United States in the first world war war alongside the entente powers. … Read more
France (1923-1940), about 80 subs Post WW1 policy cleanup After the great war, the move started in 1912 towards a more standardized navy ended the “prototype-mania” that plagued French submarine construction before and during WW1. By 1919, war reparations included German U-boats, which allowed French engineers a close look at that technology, rationalized and optimized … Read more
Project 50 Gornostay Storozhevoi Korabl 68 ASW frigates (1949-55) In four years, the Nikolayev, Komsomol and Kaliningrad shipyards delivered 68 frigates of this type. Unlike the later units of the Petya and Mirka classes, the Riga class were not specialized ASW units, but small, multi-purpose ships derived from the Kola, themselves inspired by the last … Read more
