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Chinese PLAN (1974-96) 18 ships The Jianghu class in a nutshell The Type 053 was the staple of Chinese PLAN...

Russia (1894) Single Battleship The "Three Holy Hierarchs" was an early 1890s pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the...

The leading nation in aircraft carriers If the United States are remembered today for a considerable fleet of aircraft carriers,...

A small coastal force which never had the chance to fight Although perhaps one of the least-known about belligerent fleet...

USA (1917) The First American Aircraft Carrier (CV-1) This was not before 1920, barely one year after the Japanese with...

You certainly have heard of the Type VIIC and the Type IX which roamed the seas during WW2 and almost strangled seaways to UK in 1942-43. But over 1,100 U-Boats has been built during this war, mostly deployed in the Atlantic and over twenty-four types designed, many if which were left as paper projects...

Japan, 1915. Fuso, Yamashiro. The first Japanese-designed super-dreadnought These powerful dreadnoughts were in fact far-off derivatives of the HMS Dreadnought...

France (1922) The first French aircraft carrier Apart the Foudre, an early seaplane carrier of 1911 converted from a 1890s...

Lissa, the Trafalgar of ironclads While on the other side of the Atlantic, a young nation still constructing was reeling...

Spain Reina Victoria Eugenia aka Republica (1931) aka Navarra (1936) Too late for the Great war The Reina Victoria Eugenia...