admin7126 Royal Navy Broadside Ironclads: Defence and Resistance 1859–1862, service until 1902 HMS Defence and Resistance signed a return to more budgetary wise ships, as the admiralty lordships was not convinced the high price tag of the Warrior class was able to parry a mass-production on the French side. These ships were 1/3 lighter. These vessels … Read more
Italy, Iron-Hulled Aviso, In Service: 1869-1903 During the time of Italian Unification, much of the fighting occurred on land between the multiple armies that existed on the Italian peninsula. However, while the army of the newly formed Kingdom of Italy (and their Garibaldini associates) performed a majority of the actions and gained the most notability, … Read more
Germany (Reichsmarine): 1925-28: Möwe, Falke, Greif, Kondor, Albatros, Seeadler The Type 23 or “Raubvogel” (bird of prey) class were the first six destroyer-size ships build in Germany after World War I, voted by the parliament for the Reischmarine to replaced six of the 12 Versailles authorized destroyers reaching their age limit. They were part of … Read more
Project 671RT Syomga (NATO “VICTOR II”) nuclear attack submarines 7 nuclear attack submarines (SSN): B-387, 371, 467, 488, 495, 513, 517: 1972-1997 VICTOR II development and story The Victor II (NATO name) were a follow-up of the Project 671, a revolution as far as SSN design went in USSR. These are largely considered as the … Read more
France: Magenta, Solferino 1859-63, Broadside Ironclads (1963-82) Continuing into French 1860s capital ships, after Couronne, the first French all-Iron answer to the Warriors, let’s see rather unique ships, bearing Italian sounding names (of recent Imperial Victories): The Magenta class. These French Navy (Marine Nationale) early 1860s vessels designed by famous naval architect Dupuy de Lôme … Read more
USA (1896): Protected Cruiser CL-22 New Orleans, CL-23 Albany 1897-1930 The New Orleans class were two protected cruisers initially built in Britain at Elwick Yard (Armstrong Whitworth) for the Brazilian Navy. The Brazilian Navy had ordered four initially but had already sold the first during construction to Chile and another was delivered to Brazil (Almirante … Read more
♜ Semi-Fixed seabed Infrastructures: Oil platforms/rigs, Naval Forts, and associated. 1,337 operational onshore oil rigs, 240 offshore rigs, Maunsell Forts, Texas Towers, etc. This page is dedicated to semi-fixed structures at sea. Definition: These structure, whatever their purposes, are generally built with steel or any metal in shipyards, with buoyancy in mind, and with a … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles: Pietro Calvi, Giuseppe Finzi, Enrico Tazzoli (1936-43) The Calvi class were essentially a modern reboot of the 1920s Balilla class, as three Oceanic Submersibles built in 1935-36 at Oderno-Terni-Orlando in Genoa. In the Mediterranean in the summer of 1940, they were transferred in August to the BETASOM Atlantic submarine base at Bordeaux to … Read more
Royal Navy – 23 ships converted, service 1951-1977 HMS Rapid, Relentless, Rocket, Roebuck, Troubridge, Grenville, Ulster, Ulysses, Undaunted, Undine, Urania, Urchin, Ursa, Venus, Verulam, Vigilant, Virago, Volage, Wakeful, Whirlwind, Wizard, Wrangler, Zest We open the ball here on cold war Royal Navy Frigates with the case of WW2 destroyer “recycling”: The Type 15 and 16 … Read more
37 built 1927-35 The CANT 25 was a single-engine biplane seaplane developed by the aeronautical division of the Italian company Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico (CRDA CANT). It made its maiden flight in 1927 but was only accepted in 1938. With 38 built in an amphibious and catapulted versions, it became the Adriatic shipyard’s first success. The … Read more
