Svenska Marinen 2 fleet destroyers: Klas Horn, Klas Uggla 1930-58. The Klas class, most often “Klas Horn” class as it less odd to pronounce, were two fleet destroyers in service with the Svenska Marinen from 1932 to 1958 and a development of the preceding Ehrensköld-class. Built in 1930-1932, they shared many similar characteristics. HSwMS Klas … Read more
Broadside Ironclad Frigates: HMS Lord Clyde, Lord Warden. In service 1866-1885. Design of the class Development The “ironclad race” kickstarted between France and Britain in 1859 had almpost the same effect on the RN as the HMS Dreadnought in 1906. Suddenly British Yards were caught pants down with massive stock of wood and classic wooden … Read more
Marine Nationale (1882-93); Marceau, Magenta, Neptune. The Marceau class were three ironclad barbette ships, the first large class of such vessels in the French Navy. They were built in 1882 to 1893. Marceau was the lead ship, followed by Neptune, and Magenta, and a fourth, Hoche was substantially re-designed and became her own class. The … Read more
RN 1928-45: c300 vessels of all types. The marker of a premium Navy is as much as in its battlefleet than in its support fleet. In that regard, the RN could boast having the world’s largest support fleet in 1939, a category often assimilated to the “miscellaeous” category. Excluded are gunboats and minesweepers, included the … Read more
Submarine-Launched Seaplane: 10 Made 1929-33. The Yokosuka E6Y (Yokosuka Navy Type 91-1 Reconnaissance Seaplane was a Japanese submarine-based reconnaissance seaplane developed by and for the Navy at the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal. The Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1920s was looking at a specific reconnaissance model that would be very small. The prototype first … Read more
Marynarka Wojenna, fleet destroyers Wicher, Burza (1930-1960) Polish Day ! For this Polish Day, were go back to the Marynarka Vojenna (The Polish Navy) at the eve of WW2. It was a small regional navy with some impressive destroyers, four in total, plus a support destroyer. This naval plan started with two ships, Wicher and … Read more
Japanese Self Defence Naval Force: Minegumo, Natsugumo, Murakumo (1967-70) Active until 2000. The Minegumo-class destroyer of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force were designed in 1965 as the the successor of the Yamagumo class, ASW specialists. They derived from the Yamagumo and still feature the US QH-50D DASH drone, in return for the removal of the … Read more
P2, P4, P6-10, KOMAR, OSA, Shershen, Mol, Turya, Matka, Pchela, Sarancha, Babochka, Mukha, Mutavey: c400 ships 1946-1990 This portal post is about the continuation of the motor torpedo boat fleet created in WW2. In the cold war, as it was now firmly part of its naval doctrine to defend all four fleet areas (Baltic, Arctic, … Read more
Japan 1921-40: I-51, large oceanic submarine. The Type KD1 (海大型潜水艦, Kaidai-gata sensuikan) or Kaidai-I (“navy large type”, or I-51 class) was the largest Japanese submarine design, the first of a lineage that went until the KD-VII or I-76 class. This serie ran from 1921 to 1943. The very first boat of the first class was … Read more
Regia Marina: Single ship Built 1931-34 Albatros was a submarine chaser of the Regia Marina that saw action during the war. The type branched out later to the smaller and simpler Gabbiano class Corvettes. She was reclassified as a torpedo boat, most likely purely for administrative purposes but influenced the design of modern Italian torpedo … Read more
