The Uss Cairo is an Ironclad river gunboat designed and built for the Union navy in January 1862. She was one of 7 city class ironclads deployed on the Mississipi and connecting rivers, with the intention of menacing confederate supply lines and fortifications as it went. Like the Uss Monitor she would have a short…
Uss Arizona was an American battleship of the Pensylvania class laid down in March 1914 and launched in June 1915, with her completion and commission in October 1916. She would arrive in time for Americas entry into WW1 but would see no action, though would be part of Wilsons escort to the December 1918 peace…
Tillman 4-2 was designed during ww1 as part of American senitor Tillmans proposal to push the navy into designing the largest battleship which could fit through the panama canal, and which was the largest they could feasibly build. There followed a series of designs which all sat above 60,000 tonnes, and most at 80,000 tonnes,…
The Espana class of battleships were Spains only dreadnought/modern battleships to be built, of which 3 were built. The battleships were as small and basic as dreadnoughts got with 8, 12 inch guns with 2 turrets mounted on wings, and a total length of 140m. Thus putting these battleships on par size and firepower wise,…
Hms Devastation was an Ironclad turret ship designed and built for the Royal Navy. She was laid down in November 1869, launched in 1871 and then comissioned in April 1873. Devastation was a large leap forward in warship design as she was one of the first ships to never feature sails as primary or secondary…
Hms Inflexible was completed just in time for the bombardment of Alexandria just a year later from when she was launched,during which she would fire 88 of her huge 16 inch shells at Alexandrias forts, along with many other ships being present.The purpose of this was to silence the defences which were in the hands…
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…