admin7126 Royal Navy Broadside Ironclads built 1861–1864, service until 1956 HMS Achilles was an armoured frigate built at Chatham, designed by Oliver Lang and completed in 1864, assigned to the Channel Fleet. At nearly 10,000 tonnes, she was none of the largest warships afloat. She was also the one that had the most changes, in appearance … Read more
USN Fleet Submarines (1944-51): 80 planned, 51 cancelled, 29 Completed (service until the 1980s), 9 navies The Tench class were a second class of emergency wartime fleet submarines derived from the Gato/Balao, already itself a near-repeat of the Tambor class of 1941–1943. These mass-produced U.S. submarines accounted by far for most of the US submarine … Read more
RNAS/FAA (1916), 175 made. Used until 1925 The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boatdesigned and developed by Lt. Commander John Cyril Porte at the naval air station of the same name during the First World War. This ws a start of a famous lineage, adapting a larger version of the initial F.1 hull … Read more
United Kingdom – (1943-45): 26 Loch converted to Bay class. The Bay class were 26 anti-aircraft frigates built for the Royal Navy under the 1943 War Emergency Programme (one cancelled, six completed as despatch vessels/survey ships). They were based on hulls of incomplete Loch class which were converted as AA frigates when it was decided … Read more
IJN 1st class Destroyers built 1938-41: Kagerō, Shiranui, Kuroshio, Oyashio, Hayashio, Natsushio, Hatsukaze, Yukikaze, Amatsukaze, Tokitsukaze, Urakaze, Isokaze, Hamakaze, Tanikaze, Nowaki, Arashi, Hagikaze, Maikaze, Akigumo The Kagerō-class destroyers (Kagerō-gata Kuchikukan) were a group of nineteen 1st Class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, also called the Shiranui-class destroyers in some publications as IJN Shiranui was … Read more
Germany (Kriegsmarine): 1940–1944: T-13 to T-21 Development The Type 37 torpedo boat was a class of nine torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine during the War, completed in 1941–1942 as improved version of the Type 1935. Almost half were lost in combat. Their first major action was in early 1942 for the “Channel Dash”. They … Read more
France 1877-1898, Central Battery Ironclad The French ironclad Friedland was originally an iron-hulled version of the Océan-class armoured frigates but she was much altered in her construction as a central battery ship. Named after the French victory at Friedland in 1807, she spent her career assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron, supporting the French occupation of … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles: 1938-39 Brin, Benedetto Brin, Galvani, Guglielmotti, *Archimede, *Torricelli The Benedetto Brin class were a repetition of Archimede class oceanic submersibles. They were partially double-hulled and differed by hardly more powerful diesels and larger conning tower similar to the one sported by the Foca class, with a 100mm/43 gun installed in it. The last … Read more
WWI Russian and civil war seaplane Carriers Interwar & WW2 Soviet Aircraft Carriers projects: 2 Conversions + Project 71, 72, 69A/B, 85 If Russia had to wait for decades (in fact the 1990s and Admiral kuznetsov), going full circle between Imperial, Soviet and Russian Federation eras, the country-continent was certainly not stranger to naval aviation, … Read more
1936-45: 778 in service. The Polikarpov I-16 was a revolutionary Soviet fighter aircraft introduced in the early 1930s. Designed by Nikolai Polikarpov. First Flight was in 1933, and it was introducted in 1934 as a Fighter aircraft for Soviet Air Force, but also used by the Spanish Republican and Chinese Nationalist Air Forces. It was … Read more
