Unprotected Cruiser (1895-97) service until 1933. NRP Adamastor was a small unprotected cruiser of the Portuguese Navy initially planned in 1890, but funded later by public susbcription. She was laid down in Italy at Livorno in 1895, launched in 1896, completed in 1897, the first of her kind in Portugal. She remained active until her … Read more
Project 11540 Yastreb: Neustrashimy, Yaroslav Mudry (1896-2009). In service, Baltic Fleet. The Neustrashimy class (Неустрашимый or Neustrashimyy, “Redoubtable”) were started as the Project 11540 Yastreb (hawk) in the early 1980s as a new class of large frigates for the Soviet Navy, in order to replace 1960s generation frigates, and seen as an improvement on the … Read more
Japanese Frigate (launched 1864. Service 1868-1889) The Fujiyama (Fujisan), named after Japan’s superstar mountain, was a steam frigate of the Shogunate Navy and later, of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Until 1887 (Meiji year 20), her official name in the IJN was Fujisan-kan. She missed the Shimonoseki War, retained in the US but was quite active … Read more
⚓ 🧭 🚢 ⛵ ️🔗 All Nation’s merchant ships classes In 1914, just before World War I, global trade depended heavily on merchant shipping. Fleet size was usually measured in gross register tonnage (GRT), the total internal volume of commercial ships. These differs from military tonnage calculated in water displacement, either in short or long … Read more
Germany: Oceanic submersibles: SM U87 to U-92 1916-20. The U87 class of Project 25 were six oceanic submersibles (Mittle-U Boote) built at Danzig in 1915-17, double-hulled. They were based on the U50, had an improved diving time of 56 seconds, an met sucess in operations, sinking collectively 321,556 tonnes of shipping, so 71 times their … Read more
4 built 1938-39. The Royal Yugoslavian Navy had a modest Navy and its naval air branch was not independent but attached to the Royal Yugoslavian Air Force in 1939. Soon beofre the war in 1939, four floatplanes were derived from the successful 1936 Rogožarski PVT parasol advanced fighter trainer. The conversion was helped by fitting … Read more
USA – Escort Destroyer (1942-45): 116 planned, 72 completed, 44 cancelled The WGT (better known as the John C. Butler class from its lead vessel (DE-339) were destroyer escorts of World War II, named after the lead ship USS John C. Butler commissioned on 31 March 1944. The associated “WGT type” came from their Westinghouse … Read more
Fleet Destroyers (1912-45): Almirante Lynch, Almirante Condell (+4 more).Almirante Williams, Uribe, Riveros (1920) The “Almirante” class destroyers were part initially of a class of six vessels ordered in Britain, from J. Samuel White in 1911, derived from his own private venture design. He proposed to the Chileans a destroyer than would have a significant advantage … Read more
8 frigates + exports 1969-78: Amazon, Antelope, Active,; Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent, Avenger. The Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class were Royal Navy general-purpose escorts designed to be budget-fiendly in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s. They were active in the 1980s and 1990s, but two were sunk during the Falkland wars (Antelope and Ardent) … Read more
Chinese PLAN Project 956E/EM: Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo In short, the Chinese PLAN alongside its own destroyer construction lineage, purchased four ex-Russian (first two ex-Soviet) Sovremenny class Destroyer. They were the very last in class, the first in construction since 1988-89, Vazhny and Vdumchivy, and two started in 2002 as Vnushitelny and Vechny, purchased by … Read more
