United Kingdom, Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine (1963-1980). For the seventh use of the world’s famous name “dreadnought” UK saw its most fitting application could only be its first nuclear-powered submarine. The fruit of long R&D started in Britain postwar, HMS Dreadnought (S101) was a design worked on from 1954 -with opposition from Hyman Rickover at … Read more
Royal Navy – Escort Aircraft Carriers (1942-44)HMS Slinger, Atheling, Emperor, Ameer, Begum, Trumpeter, Empress, Khedive, Speaker, Nabob, Premier, Shah, Patroller, Rajah, Ranee, Trouncer, Thane, Queen, Ruler, Arbiter, Smiter, Puncher, Reaper The 23 Ameer (Ruler) class CVE (escort carriers), alongside with the 11 Attacker and 3 Avengers, made the largest bulk of escorts carriers in the … Read more
United Kingdom (1945) – HMS Blake, Tiger, Lion 1959-78. The Tiger class were three and last light conventional cruisers built for the Royal Navy. They were initially known as the Minotaur-class cruisers (Blake, Defence and Bellerophon) and started in late WW2 but shelved due to post-war austerity. Amidst changing priorities and still under financial limits, … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles 1945-1974: 46 ordered Programme 1943, 16 completed: Amphion, Astute, Auriga, Aurochs, Alcide, Alderney, Alliance, Ambus, Anchorite, Andrew, Affray, Aeneas, Alaric, Artemis, Artful, Acheron. Cancelled under completion: Ace, Achates The “A class” or Amphion, were the last submersibles planned by the British admiralty in WW2, designed for Operations in the Pacific. Indeed after Pearl … Read more
Royal Navy – Escort Aircraft Carriers (1941-43)HMS Attacker, Battler, Chaser, Fencer, Hunter, Pursuer, Ravager, Searcher, Stalker, Striker, Tracker The 11 Attacker class CVE (escort carriers), alongside with the 23 Avengers, made the largest addition of escorts carriers in the Royal Navy, before the MACs and all locally converted vessels such as the Vindex class. They … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles 1932-1945: 53 total: Group I 1935-38: Triton, Thunderbolt, Tribune, Trident, Triumph, Taku, Tarpon, Thistle, Tigris, Triad, Truant, Group 3 boats, Talisman, Tetrarch, Torbay Group II 1939-41: Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent. Group III 1942-45: P311, Trespasser, Taurus, Tactician, Truculent, Templar, Tally-Ho, Tantalus, Tantivy. Telemachus, Talent, Terrapin, Thorough, Thule, Tudor, Tireless, Token, … Read more
Light Submersibles 1932-1945: S-class Group II: HMS Sealion, Shark, Snapper, Salmon, Seawolf, Spearfish, Sunfish, Sterlet Development The S-class submarines were originally designed when the need arose to modernize the submarine in the interwar, create smaller models fit for the North Sea and Mediterranean and replace the 1915 built H-class, still numerous in inventory and now … Read more
Royal Navy – Escort Aircraft Carriers (1942-43)HMS Avenger, Biter, Dasher, Charger (recom. USN as CVE-30) Avenger class escort aircraft carriers: It was made up of three ships, based on the US built standard C3 hulls, the same as for HMS Archer, and thus built in the US and prvovided under lend-lease, the first of a … Read more
United Kingdom, escort aircraft carrier (1939-1962) HMS Archer was a Long Island-class escort carrier based on a C3 cargo, MV Mormacland, converted and used under lend lease by the Royal Navy in WW2 as HMS Archer. Her was plagues by transmission issues and eventually this caused her to be withdrawn from front-line service. She became … Read more
3,261 LCT-1 to LCT-8 1940-1945 SPECIAL D-DAY 80th Yr Anniversay ! Of the main landing vessels that made the Armada of Operation Overlord on June, 6th, 1944, were many LCTs, especially the LCT-5/6 family of landing craft. Denominaiton at that stage was “Landing Craft, Tank” and they constituted a missing link between the infantry alone … Read more
