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BB Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya in 1934, after her modernization. Imperial Russian Battleship Gangut was laid up on 9 November 1918 for lack of manpower and was renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (October Revolution) on 27 June 1925 while she was being refitted. She was recommissioned on 23 March 1926 and began a partial reconstruction on 12 October 1931, incorporating the lessons from the earlier…
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REVENGE AT OMDURMAN
The Second Sudan War, 1896-8 Despite their tactical reverses, the dervishes followed up the British withdrawal from the Sudan. On the Nile sector their northwards advance was checked at Ginnis on 30 December 1885, the battle being otherwise remarkable in that it was the last occasion on which British infantry…
Vicksburg 1863 – Union Riverine Forces
On the west side of the Mississippi, some seventy-five river miles north of Vicksburg, lay Lake Providence, a crescent-shaped body of water that could link the Mississippi via Louisiana bayous and rivers to the mouth of the Red River, miles south of Vicksburg. If successful, Grant’s army and Porter’s navy…
Victoria (1859)
HMS Victoria, painting by William Frederick Mitchell, 1898 The two-funnelled Victoria combined up-to-date and traditional features. Despite powerful engines it carried a full spread of sail. Note also the stern galleries. With its sister ship Howe, Victoria was the last wooden-hulled three-decker to be built for the British Navy. Already…
Santa Ana (1784)
Santa Ana was a three-masted first-rate, with three decks of guns: the prototype for seven other ships built during the 1780s at Spanish and Cuban yards. Santa Ana 1784 by San MartĂn – ArtesanĂa Latina – Scale 1:84 A first-rate of 112 guns, Santa Ana was the first of a…
USS Olympia
USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after…
SUBMARINES AND SUBMARINERS
The submarine was a subversive force. Its ability to hide within the element on which the battlefleet held sway threatened the great ships, the theory and practice of their employment, above all the admirals who had risen in their service; during the 1920s and 1930s these held power and patronage,…