HMS Collossus was a battleship designed and built for the Royal navy. She was laid down in June 1879 and launched in march 1882, and was comissioned in 1886. Its hull was made of open hearth steel and the armour was a steel faced compound, making it one of the first all steel battleships in…
HMS Roberts was a Roberts class monitor built for the Royal Navy during the early stages of WW2 and comissioned in October 1941. Her role was to take part in shore bombardments and provide support for landing troops whenever a naval invasion was taking place. This required a vessel with large guns (in her case…
HMS Revenge is a Revenge class battleship of the Royal navy and completed in 1915 during ww1.The ship was designed as a follow up to the Queen Elizabeth class battleships,carrying the same main armament,but with a reduction in speed and size to reduce the overall cost of the ships.Revenge was active during the battle of…
HNoMS Draug was a destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian navy and based on the British River class of destroyers. The Draugs were some of Norways earliest destroyers with 3 in total being layed down, and built at Horten in the south east of Norway during the early 1900’s and launched in the last 1900’s…
HNoMS Teist was a torpedo boat built for the Royal Norwegian navy with similar features to her sister Skarv and built around the same time. She would be sunk during the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 ,where to increase its defensive capabilites by exploiting the hiding places given by the Norwegian fjords it…
Hnoms Troll was the second Draug class destroyer built for the Norwegian Navy and which served from 1912 to 1949 under the Norwegian flag for 5 years of which was under the flag of Nazi Germany as she wasn’t able to make steam for Great Britain on the 1st of May 1940.
The HNOMS Norge is the first replica warship I ever produced back in early January 2020, and was a great milestone in my life as it gave me the confidence to make replica ships. She was launched on March 1900 and would come into service a year later. During her liftime as a coastal defence…
Tordeskjold was a Norwegian coastal defence ship named after Peter Tordenskjold, a Norwegian vice admiral of the Dano-Norwegian navy. Tordeskjold and her sister ship Harald Haarfagre,along with the 2 newer Eidsvolds, were built as part of a naval re-armament as Norway was part of Sweden at this time, however in 1905 that came to an…
HNOMS Skarv is a 2. Class torpedo boat built for the Norwegian navy in 1906.The first part of her existance was fairly quite, however she would see most if not all of her action in world war 2. The first action she would see was the Altmark incident where the German tanker Altmark, carrying British…
The HNoMS Skorpionen was built as a lead ship of her class, 3 of which were built for the Royal Norwegian navy.(Skorpionen, Mjølner and Thrudvang) The Skorpionens were Norways first Ironclad vessels, being laid down in1865 and launched in 1866. They followed a similar design to The American Union Ironclad USS Monitor with a single…