Month: July 2016
Powerful class Armoured Cruisers (1895)
Powerful class Armoured Cruisers (1895) United Kingdom (1895) – HMS Powerful, HMS Terrible The Anglo-Russian naval arms race Before the…
Seaplane Carrier La Foudre (1895)
La Foudre (1895) France (1895) – Torpedo mothership/Seaplane carrier First life: As a torpedo boat mothership The Foudre in still…
D’Iberville class Torpedo Cruisers (1893)
D’Iberville class Torpedo Cruisers (1893) France (1893) – Casabianca, Cassini, D’Iberville The D’Iberville class in brief The three ships of…
Dunois class Torpedo Cruisers (1897)
Dunois class Torpedo Cruisers (1897) France (1897) – Dunois, La Hire A strange mix of characteristics The Torpedo Cruiser was…
Admiral Souchon’s Escape (3-8 August 1914)
German Navy 3-8 August 1914 Prelude to War: The Mediterranean Squadron On 2 August 1914, the declaration of war was…
Edgar class protected cruisers (1891)
Edgar class protected cruisers (1891) United Kingdom (1891) HMS Edgar, Endmyon, Hawke, Gibraltar, Crescent, Royal Arthur, St Georges, Theseus, Grafton…
Naval History
An intro to naval history Prehistoric boats, dugout, canoe rafts, reed boats, skin boats. The Polynesians pioneers From skinboats to…
Bretagne class Dreadnought Battleships (1914)
France (1914) – Bretagne, Provence, Lorraine France’s wartime dreadnoughts Before the war, France’s first dreadnoughts, the Courbet class, just entered…
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