Tag: defence
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…
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…
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…
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…