Project 1234 Ovod 1968-75. Nanuchka I-IV: 35 Corvettes Built in Ulis (Vladivostok) and Petrovsky (Leningrad), these were 35 multirole “large missile boats” (NATO corvettes) (17 Nanuchka I and 17 Nanuchka III), plus the Nanuchka II export (7 for Libya and Algeria), and single prototype Nanuchka IV of 1976. Project 1234 Ovod were classified as coastal … Read more
Imperial Russian Navy – Broadside Ironclad built 1861-67, in service until 1885. The Russian ironclad Petropavlovsk was ordered as a 58-gun wooden frigate by the Imperial Russian Navy in 1860 but converted under construction into a 22-gun armored frigate. Her story is very much the same as her sister Sevastopol. She was completed second, a … Read more
Coastal Submersibles (1930-48): Delfino, Narvalo, Squalo, Tricheco The Squalo-class were four submarines built for the Regia Marina in 1928-30 by the Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico (CRDA) shipyard at Monfalcone, designed by Curio Bernardis. They were essentially a development of the previous Bandiera class, at 900 tonnes surfaced, and capable of 15 knots. They paid a heavy … Read more
Nuclear attack submarine: Prototype K-278 Komsomolets completed 1983. K-278 Komsomolets was the sole boat built in the Project-685 Plavnik (“fin”) class, NATO reporting “Mike”-class. This was a rather large nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy, unique for her record depth rating. She had been built to experiment dives deep enough to make classic torpedo … Read more
France. Barbette Ironclads: Terrible, Indomptable, Caiman, Requin. Built 1877-1888, service until 1918. The Terrible class were four French ironclad barbette ships of the late 1870s and early 1880s. These ships, with Indomptable, Caïman (small alligator), and Requin (shark), were initially designed to answer the Sachsen class in Germany and later the Italia class and their … Read more
US Navy 1945-80 USS Oregon City, Albany, Rochester (CA-122, 123, 124) The need to improve stability and AA firepower, notably the fire arc of light AA and secondary guns led BuShips (Bureau of Ships) to design in 1942 an improvement of the design, leading to the creation of the Oregon City class, of which only … Read more
Update on the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy): Submarines in service and Amphibious ships classes, types and specs and other points about the Navy at large and updates. #chinesenavy #peoplesliberationarmynavy #jinclass #qingclass #suiclass #shangclass #yuanclass #songclass #hanclass #yushenclass #yuzhaoclass #yutingclass See the Page
Bundesmarine, 82 Built 1981-today for 13 countries. Germany Day ! If on one hand, the Bundesmarine was a relatively modest navy in comparison to West Germany’s and post-1990 unified Germany’s economical means up to this day, export was in addition a major asset to finance it. Indeed, Blohm & Voss was chiefly responsible for it. … Read more
United Kingdom – HMS Surrey, HMS Northumberland The Surrey class were a never-built heavy cruiser class, in fact the very last of the Royal Navy, capped by treaties, notably the 1930 London treaty. The 1929 financial crisis, that hit hard in Britain as well, and criticisms over a woefully inadequate protection led to their cancellation … Read more
Germany: SM U57 to U-62, 99 to 104 (1916-17) The Mobilisation U57 class U-Boats were the first incursion by A.G. Weser, Bremen, into the usual realm of Germaniawerft and Kaiserliches Werft shipyards. The need for more U-Boote was pressing and to bolster the numbers, a series of twelve submersibles were ordered, based on the U41 … Read more
