Casemate Ironclad 1868-1912 Vasilefs Georgios (Βασιλεύς Γεώργιος) or “Basileos” Giorgios, was an armored turret corvette built in Great Britain. She was ordered by the Royal Hellenic Navy in the 1860s, after a hard-fought independence war to defend her ports against the mighty Ottoman Navy. She was damaged at sea in 1870 and repaired in Portugal. … Read more
✈ 30/04/2026 Gotha WD.2 (1914) The Gotha WD Family was central to Gothaer Waggonfabrik to pake its mark in the limited club of seaplane manufacturers in WWI. Less well known than its family of heavy bombers, Gotha nevertheless started on a licenced Avro 504 prewar and constantly improved it. This posts tries to go through … Read more
Batch 1: Broadsword, Battleaxe, Brilliant, Brazen The type 22 were a new generation of frigates planned by British Royal Navy to replaced 1950-60 vessels FY1977. Fourteen were built total, but the design changed over time, so much so three batches existed with the last ship, HMS Chatham, completed in 1990 as the cold war ended. … Read more
USN – c80 ships (1914-45). The subject of WW2 gunboats is rarely seen as a whole, because it was basically a mess. The list of ships and classes operated were more the result of inheritance of very disparate vessels for different missions, acquisition and reclassifications until 1945. That unglamorous category was considered obsolete in comparison … Read more
Prospective Names: HLMNS Holland, Gelderland, Noordbrabant. The Holland class Battlecruiser (Design 1047) remained one of the biggest what-if in the Netherlands naval history. As many other construction or paper projects in many navies by 1939-40 they were caught by the start of the war. These could have been the most formidable warhips ever in service … Read more
German Cargo/Cruiser Submarines (1916-18): U-151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157. SMS Deutschland was born SS Deutschland, a civilian registered, blockade-breaking German merchant submarine optimized for cago in World War I. Developed with private funds like Bremen, they were operated by the North German Lloyd Line, and became the first of six more U-151-class. After … Read more
Svenska Marinen Two coastal destroyers: Remus, Romulus 1940-1958. HSwMS Romulus and Remus were former Italian Torpedo Boats Spica and Astore, of the namesake class already in service in the Regia Marina from 1935. They were purchased alongside as two Sella class destroyers in January 1940 but only departed from La Spezia in April 1940 after … Read more
French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleships:FS Liberté, Justice, Vérité, Démocratie (1904-1908) The Liberté class were four pre-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy, ordered as part of a naval expansion program launched in 1900 following the German Naval Law of 1898. Six new battleships were called upon, but on a post-Jeune Ecole design. Two were of the … Read more
Germany (1898-1901) S90-S107, S-114-S131 Schichau (1898-1901), G108-G113, G-132-G-136 Germaniawerft (1900-1902): 48 ships. The S90 class were in effect the largest torpedo boats of the Kaiserliches Marine, which never really used the term of “Zerstörer” (destroyer) and rather classed its larger types here of Großes Torpedoboote (“large torpedo boats”). The German Imperial Navy then called their … Read more
US Maritime Commission 1941-45: 2,710 Built Liberty Ships were one of the many reasons the allies won the Battle of the Atlantic in the second world war. The solution was brutally simple: To out-produce what the U-Boats can sink. These iconic mass-produced American cargo vessels of World War II are the best known, with their … Read more
