Category: Industrial-era-Navies

Author: dreadnaughtz Published Date: November 14, 2023
Posted in 1870 Italian Fleet Industrial-era-Navies

Formidabile class ironclads (1861)

Italian Regia Marina, French Built 1860-1904: Formidabile, Terribile The very first Italian ironclads were the Formidabile class. They were at…

Author: dreadnaughtz Published Date: September 1, 2022
Posted in 1890 fleets Industrial-era-Navies

USS Olympia

US Protected Cruiser, 1890 – today Introduction: The birth of the “new navy” When the first Cleveland Administration took office…

Author: dreadnaughtz Published Date: February 27, 2020
Posted in Industrial-era-Navies

The Great Clippers (1820-1870)

Introduction For once, we left the guns to rest, and turn the bar back in time, with one of the…

Author: dreadnaughtz Published Date: January 2, 2019
Posted in 1860 fleets Industrial-era-Navies

Union Navy 1861-65

THE UNION NAVY (“OLD NAVY”) The goal of this chapter is not to portray every single ship featured during the…

Author: dreadnaughtz Published Date: February 4, 2018
Posted in Industrial-era-Navies

Confederate Navy 1861-65

THE CONFEDERATE NAVY (CSS) The confederate fleet was actually more the amount of ships that were seized in the Confederate…