Tag: coastal
S.M.S. Arminius was an ironclad turret ship purchased by the Prussian Navy in 1864 and completed the next year. She was completed with 4 bronze 72 pounder guns in 2 turrets designed by Cowper Coles which were then later modified to 210mm guns and aditional superstructure was added. The model in this depiction is of…
SMS Hagen was the final vessel of the six-member Siegfried class of coastal defense ships built for the German Imperial Navy. She was laid down in September 1891 and launched 2 years later in October 93, and then a year later entered service into the Imperial German navy. Her career was fairly quiet, spending most…
SMS Saschen was an Ironclad warship build for the Imperial German navy during the 1870’s as part of a modernisation plan, to modernise and strengthen Germanys navy. In total 4 would be built with her sister ships being Bayern, Württemberg and Baden, and would fullfil the role of coastal defence ships given their classification of…
The German gun-boat Wespe was an armoured gunboat built for the German navy in the midd 1870’s, which carried a single massive 305mm gun and a small selection of smaller guns for self defence. The model depiction is of a later upgrade to the vessels in the early 1890’s.
USS Puritan was an Ironclad built for the US Navy to replace it’s existing old and worn Ironclad built during the civil war. Laid down in June 1874 and launched in December 1882, and commissioned in December 1886, the Puritan had one of the longest build times of the Ironclad era, if not the longest.…
USS Monitor was an Ironclad built for the Union navy during the civil war. Ordered on the 4th of October 1861, Laid down on the 25th and Launched on the 30th of January 1862, before being completed and comissioned on the 25th of Febuary. She was ordered in response to the construction of the CSS…
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…
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…