admin7126 Conventional Attack Submarines (S641-651). Service 1964-1996: Daphné, Diane, Doris, Eurydice, Flore, Galatée, Minerve, Junon, Vénus, Psyché, Sirène +15 exported. We continue our dive in cold war French submarines with a later conventional design called the Daphné class. These were not “sous-marins de patrouille” or patrol submarines, but follow-up hunter-killer of the Arethuse class. They were … Read more
Nazi Germany: 1936A and 1936A mob: Z23-Z39 (Built 1938-1943) The Type 1936A destroyers (Z23 class) were probably the best known of the Kriegsmarine wartime destroyer, the most numerous and powerful at the same time. In British literrature they are often known as the “Narvik” class. The initial type 1936A consisted in eight ships instead of … Read more
CANT 18 (1926) 29 built 1927-28 Development In 1926, SISA asked the Cosulich group to build an acrobatic seaplane for advanced training to be assigned to new pilots of the Portorose Flight School. The result was a wooden hulled seaplane, sesquiplane with top wing suspended engine, tow bladed wooden propeller and a structural safety coefficient … Read more
Søværnet: Armoured Frigate (1859-1885) HDMS Peder Skram was originally laid down as a wooden steam frigate for the Royal Danish Navy. but was converted to an armored frigate while under construction in the early 1860s. She had an uneventful career before she was stricken from the Navy List on 7 December 1885 and became accommodation … Read more
Armada de Chile – ACS O’Higgins, Capitan Prat 1951-1983/91 The O’Higgins class cruisers were the former USS Brookyn (lead class vessel) and USS Nashville, sold to Chile under MDAP in January 1951 and in service until the 1980s. They answered similar acquisition the same year by Brazil (Barroso) and Argentina with the Belgrano class, of … Read more
UK Royal Navy (1916-1945) 1916 program: HMS Scott, Bruce, Douglas, Campbell, MackKay, Malcolm, Montrose, Stuart (Built 1916-1920). Second part on the late British WWI flotilla Leaders. The Admiralty type (Scott class) were the second flotilla leaders built almost alongside the Shakespare class or “Thornycroft type” proposed by the latter company. They were the fastest and … Read more
UK Royal Navy (1916-1945) 1916 program: HMS Shakespeare, Spenser, Wallace, Keppel, Rooke, Saunders*, Stragge* (Built 1916-1920). The Shakespeare or “Thornycroft Type” were Flotilla leaders which type was developed already in 1913, after acknowledging the failure of HMS Swift as an in-between cruisers and destroyers. Thus by October 1913 the admiralty worked on a new design, … Read more
Spanish Protected cruisers (1886-1895): Reina Regentes, Alfonso XIII, Lepanto 1891-1900 The Reina Regentes class cruisers were designed as an improvement of the Alfonso XII, with some protection (they were the second class of Spanish protected cruisers after the small Isla de luzon group). Instead of being designed and built in Spain, the Government sent a … Read more
Imperial Russian Navy – Broadside Ironclad built 1860-65, in service until 1886. The Russian ironclad Sevastopol was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in 1860 but converted while under construction into a 32-gun armored frigate. As the first armoured ship of the Russian Navy, she served in the Baltic Fleet, … Read more
Coastal Submersibles: Giovanni Bausan, Marcantonio Colonna, Des Geneys, Vettor Pisani (1926-29) The Pisani-class submarines were built for the Regia Marina as a parallel development to the Mameli class, a new start for the Interwar Italian submarine arm. Four were built for this design by the Cantiere Navale Triestino, with a single hull but generally features … Read more
