Leningrad was the second of two Moskva class helicopter carriers in service with the Soviet Navy. Laid down at Nikolayev South (Shipyard No.444), Leningrad was commissioned in late 1968. Preceded by Moskva, there were no further vessels built, reportedly due to the poor handling of the ships in...
Anzio is a Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser, normally based in Norfolk, Virginia and part of Carrier Strike Group Two, assigned to the U.S. Second Fleet.
Anzio is named after the World War II amphibious assault on the beachhead at Anzio, Italy, on January 22, 1944.
Another...
The Varyag - an iconic Russian warship, sank off the coast of Lendalfoot, Ayrshire, more than eighty years ago.
On February 9, 1904, after fighting a Japanese heavy cruiser, five light cruisers and eight destroyers, the cruiser was badly damaged, losing 122 sailors and along with the 'Koreyets'...
The Varyag - an iconic Russian warship, sank off the coast of Lendalfoot, Ayrshire, more than eighty years ago.
On February 9, 1904, after fighting a Japanese heavy cruiser, five light cruisers and eight destroyers, the cruiser was badly damaged, losing 122 sailors and along with the 'Koreyets'...
The Varyag - an iconic Russian warship, sank off the coast of Lendalfoot, Ayrshire, more than eighty years ago.
On February 9, 1904, after fighting a Japanese heavy cruiser, five light cruisers and eight destroyers, the cruiser was badly damaged, losing 122 sailors and along with the 'Koreyets'...
1902 PRINZ ADALBERT. Leader of a small class of armoured cruisers constructed just after the turn of the twentieth century for the Imperial German Navy.
THE PRINZ ADAIJBERT CLASS
The German armoured cruisers formed a neat, evolutionary pattern, each new class of two ships being no more...
1874 DEUTSCHLAND With her sister-ship the Kaiser, these were the last German Capital Ships to be built abroad. Originally rigged as sailing ships, they were later substantially rebuilt along more modern lines.
THE KAISER CLASS
These ships were built on the Thames by Samuda Bros. to the...
An ignominious end: Tothe Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic
At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the Kriegsmarine lay far behind the Royal Navy, as Hitler knew all too well. He had long come to the realisetion that fleet actions were out of the question, but had...
1934 ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE. The Graf Spee was a German commerce-raider brought to action by three smaller British cruisers in the first naval battle of World War II.
A GESTURE OF DEFIANCE
The third unit of the Deufschland class was the best known of these pocket battleships built in the early...
1935 MARSEILLAISE. One of the six-strong La Galissonnire class of light cruisers, completed for the French Navy in 1935 and 1937, three of which, including the Marseillaise, were scuttled at Toulon on the collapse of the Vichy regime in November 1942.
THE LA GAIJISSONNIERE CLASS
During the...
1925 SUFFREN Leader of a class of four heavy cruisers which entered service with the French Navy in the early 1930s.
THE SUFFREN CLASS
These four ships, sometimes referred to as First Class cruisers in their home land, were modified versions of the first French treaty cruisers, the...
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