admin7126 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force: ASW destroyer (1956-85): JDS Harukaze, JDS Yukikaze The first Japanese-built destroyers of the MSDF, laid down at Mitsubishi Zosen in Nagasaki for Harukaze and Shin Mistubishi HI Kobe for Yukikaze. They were designed and tailored for anti-submarine warfare. The majority of equipment, sensors and armamenr were from the US according to … Read more
Submarine-launched seaplane, 123 built 1939-43. Development Origins The Yokosuka Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane (in Ordnance E14Y, Allied Intel “Glen”) was a floatplane initially planned and designed to operate off a submarine. This was closely intertwined with the very concept of aicraft operated from submarines, a combination born in 1918 at least in concept and … Read more
MEKO 200NH: F-452 Hydra, F-453 Spetsai, F-454 Psara, F-455 Salamis (Ordered 1989, 1992-today) Hydra (F 452), Meko 200 Mk.3 The Hydra class are four frigates in service with the Hellenic Navy, designed in Germany as part of the MEKO 200 series, authorised in 1988 and partially paid for with FMS aid with at first six … Read more
French Navy – Standard 1500t destroyers, 14 built 1925-1931, in service until 1952: L’Adroit, Basque, Bordelais, Boulonnais, Brestois, Forbin, Frondeur, L’Alcyon, La Palme, La Railleuse, Le Fortuné, Le Mars, Foudroyant, Fougueux The L’Adroit class were a group of standard French destroyers, called “torpilleurs” (“torpedo boats”) in French nomenclature. They were built in 1925-1930 as part … Read more
Indian Aircraft Carrier 1961-1997 The first Indian Aircraft Carrier was the former light fleet carrier HMS Hercules (Majestic class) ordered in 1942, laid down in October 1943, launched 22 September 1945 and construction suspended in May 1946, 75% complete. Purchased in January 1957 by India, towed to Belfast for completion and modernization by Harland and … Read more
Royal Navy (1930-34) G class: Gallant, Garland, Gipsy, Glowworm, Grafton, Grenade, Grenville*, Greyhound, Griffin H class: Hardy, Hasty, Havock, Hereward, Hero, Hostile, Hotspur, Hunter, Hyperion Havant class: Harvester, Havant, Havelock, Hesperus, Highlander, Hurricane The G- and H-class were 18 British Royal Navy destroyers built from 1934 (24 by adding the 6 supplementary Brazilian ships, all … Read more
120-gun, 1s rate ships of the line: 12 Apostles, Paris, Grand Duke Constantine 1838-1855 The Dvienadsat Apostolov (12 apostles) were the largest and most modern ships of the line in the Russian Imperial Navy, at the Battle of Sinope and in its main consequence, the war of Crimea in 1853-55. There three sailing 120-gun three-deck … Read more
USN Fleet Submarines (1941-43): About 77 subs The Gato class were emergency wartime fleet submarines, built for the USN as a near-repeat of the Tambor class launched in 1941–1943. These mass-production U.S. submarine and the closely related Balao and Tench classes accounted by far for most of the US submarine effort in wartime, and destroyed … Read more
Conventional Attack Submarines (S-620 to S-323). Agosta, Bézévier, La Praya, Ouessant. Service: 1978-2009. Next in the cold war French submarine lineage are the last French conventional design, the Agosta class. All were named after naval battles, starting with the battle of Augusta in 1676. Developed and constructed by DCNS in the 1970s to to succeed … Read more
Built 1954-58: Albatros, Alcione, Airone, Aquila, Bellona*, Diana*, Flora*, Triton*, Lynx*, Pattimura**, Sultan Hasanudin** The Albatros class was a class of eight corvettes designed and built in Italy in the 1950s, paid for by US funds, and somewhat prsented as NATO standard ASW corvettes. They were operated by Italy, Denmark, Indonesia and the Netherlands. The … Read more
