admin7126 Chinese PLAN Aircraft Carrier. Comp. 2011, comm. 2012, Active CNS Liaoning (16) is the sole Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier and first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, now considered a training ship and officially designed to familiarize the PLAN aircraft carrier operations. Her career is currently of twelve year … Read more
Destroyers built 1918-22, Momi, Kaya, Nashi, Take, Kaki, Tsuga, Nire, Kuri, Kiku, Aoi, Hagi, Fuji, Susuki, Hishi, Hasu, Warabi, Tade, Sumire, Tsuta, Ashi, Yomogi With the Momi class we cover a new important chapter of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the destroyers. After Battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers it was important to cover not only their … Read more
Sopwith T.1 Cuckoo (1917) RNAS/FAA 1917-19: 232 built all types combined. The Sopwith T.1 Cuckoo was a British torpedo carrier created by Sopwith, produced by Blakcburn, and operated by Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), and later the RAF. The T.1 was the first landplane specifically designed for carrier operations and carrying a torpedo, but completed … Read more
US Navy Submersible (1932-45) USS Dolphin (SS-169) was a single experimental submersible of the interwar, V-7 and later SF-10/SC-3, earning 2 battle stars in WW2. She was indeed the penultimate V-Boat, a serie of experimental submarines that were instrumental to reinvent the type in US service and made a solid basis for future developments: The … Read more
Minelayer cruisers – HMS Abdiel, Latona, Manxman, Welshman, Ariadne, Apollo The Abdiel class were six fast minelayers (cruisers) commissioned during the Second World War, built in two groups, one ordered in 1938, the second in wartime and commissioned in 1943. They were known as the Manxman class of just the “mine-laying cruisers”, armed only with … Read more
Ottoman Navy: Four British built Ironclads (1863-1866): Osmanieh, Mahmudieh, Abdul Aziz, Orkanieh The Osmanieh (or Osmaniye) class were four broadside ironclads built in britain, three at Napier and one at Thames iron works between 1863 and 1866. They were active until the war of 1877-78 with Russia, and swa little action, being preserved by the … Read more
Guided missile Frigates 1976-2022: D 614 FS Cassard, D 615 Jean Bart, Courbet* D 616, D 617 (cancelled) The Cassard class (Type F70 AA) were the two last “classic” anti-air warfare destroyers (before stealth was introduced) of the French Navy. They were built in the 1980s and only the first two were completed. The next … Read more
Marinha do Brasil: 3 Destroyers built 1937-43, service until 1972 The Marcilio Dias or “M class” were the first modern destroyers built in Brazil, at Ilha das Cobras shipyard, Rio de Janeiro, and based on the US Mahan class. They were completed after many delays in 1943, after seven years in construction but they did … Read more
Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (1958-61), service 1963-1994: Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, James Monroe, Nathan Hale, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster (SSBN-616 -626). The Lafayette class evolved from the Ethan Allen class, themslves a major development of the Skipjack-based G. Washington class, slightly larger and improved. With the sub-class James Madison, and … Read more
Escort Aircraft Carrier (Launched 1939 as Argentina maru, converted 1943) IJN Kaiyō (海鷹, or Sea Hawk) was an escort carrier operated of the Imperial Japanese Navy, converted in wartime from the ocean liner Argentina Maru (launched in 1939 at Mitsubishi). She was purchased on 9 December 1942 for conversion into an escort carrier, commissioned on … Read more
