Warship

The steel battleship was the measure of naval power…

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Pennsylvania (1915) leading battleship Colorado (1921) and cruisers Louisville (1930), Portland (1932), and Columbia (1941) into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines 1944. The Italian BB Littorio When the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo—carried on small, fast torpedo boats—threatened the established order, naval hierarchies pursued ways to preserve the battleship’s preeminence. Naval architects modified battleship hulls to absorb torpedo hits. Naval tacticians countered the torpedo…

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Landing Craft

Both the Axis and Allied powers utilized amphibious warfare during World War II, most especially the Allies. Landing craft were widely employed in the Mediterranean, European, and Pacific Theaters. The Italians used amphibious warfare in Albania and in Africa, and the Germans used it in Norway and Denmark and in…

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CSS Louisiana

As she would have appeared completed. Confederate center-wheeler/screw steamer ironclad. The Louisiana was built at Jefferson City, Louisiana, just north of New Orleans, by E. C. Murray. The ironclad was laid down on October 15, 1861, and launched on February 6, 1862, but lack of materials prevented its completion. The…

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Steam Gun Boat

SGB4 Grey Fox Steam Gun Boat, MGB S309, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Peter Scott underway. Veritable battleships of the coastal forces, the Steam Gun Boats were fast and heavily-armed vessels, although vulnerable to damage in the machinery rooms. Nonetheless, they were warily respected by their opponents across the…

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USS Earle Attacks U-boats

USS Earle (DD-635), January 1943 at New York Navy Yard. 1/3/43 German radio reported attack on Casablanca the night after we left the area. The supply convoy of 35 ships was probably packed like sardines in the harbor. No dope on damage. Could have been murderous. Apparently we picked the…

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SMS Königsberg

Brian Withams; (c) Brian Withams, GAVA; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation German light cruiser class, built 1914-17. Four small cruisers were authorized in 1913: Ersatz Gazelle, E Niobe, E Nymphe and E Thetis, but by the time they came to be launched in 1915-16 they were given the names…

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Pre-WWI Fleet Building

Naval strategy is as interactive an enterprise as strategic geography. Germany faced a Great Britain that was not only blessed by geography—First Sea Lord Jacky Fisher christened Britons “God’s chosen people” for this reason—but that deployed a “brutally superior” Royal Navy astride German maritime communications. Threats consist of capabilities and…

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German Schnellboot (S-boat)

Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…

Soviet Navy WWII Aircraft Carrier Design

PROJECT KOSTROMITINOV Aircraft 66 Fighters 40 bombers/torpedo bombers Guns 8Ă—2 152 mm 4Ă—3+6Ă—2 100mm FlaK…

Yamato (1941) Part I

IJN Yamato by Chris Flodberg  The tower carried Type 21 and 22 radar, the main…

Borodino class

In 1904 Moscow dispatched the 2nd Pacific Squadron, commanded by Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rohdzsvenski, from…