Tag: maritime
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…
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…