Navistory US Navy Escort Destroyers (1942-45): 116 planned, 72 completed, 44 cancelled The DET (better known as the Cannon class from its lead vessel DE99) were considered a repeat of the previous “Long Hull” TE/TEV or Buckley design, the third escort destroyers types of the US Navy in world war two. Initially coming from the 1940 … Read more
Peruvian Navy Monitor 1870-1881 BAP Atahualpa was a peruvian monitor, ex-USS Catawba acquired in 1868, taking part in the Peruvian Civil War and Pacific War, scuttled in 1881. Development Armada Peruviana 1865 Back in 1865, the Peruvian Navy was a hotchpodge of wooden bricks and schooners, with its three main combat vessels being the 1850 … Read more
Regia Marina: 24 planned 1942. None completed. The Comandanti Medaglie d’Oro class, also known as the “Comandanti class” or “Medaglie d’Oro class” in naval litterature, were the last destroyer class planned for the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) with 24 vessels ordered, later reduced to 20, the first laid down by September 1942, a year … Read more
France (1886-1908) The Milan is an important ship in the French cruiser development: She was both its first modern steam-only unprotected cruiser, would-be torpedo-cruiser and Bertin’s masterpiece as the world’s fastest warship in 1884. It impressed Jeune Ecole’s guru Admiral Aube that as minister of the Navy, ordered six follow-up cruisers, the Forbin and Troude … Read more
Ironclad Corvette, in service until 1876. HMS Favorite, 7th of the name, was an ironclad screw corvette launched in 1864, one of the three small wooden warships with HMS Research and HMS Enterprise selected by Sir Edward Reed for conversion to ironclads, as part of the French-British ironclad race of the early 1860s. In her … Read more
Royal Navy (1940-42) O class: Onslow, Offa, Onslaught, Oribi, Obdurate, Obedient, Opportune, Orwell P class: Pakenham, Paladin, Panther, Partridge, Pathfinder, Penn, Petard, Porcupine The O and P class were wartime destroyers of the British Royal Navy ordered in 1939, and first ships in the War Emergency Programme. The O was the first, and the P-class, … Read more
Japanese Self Defence Naval Force – Escort Destroyer (1966-2005): Yamagumo, Makigumo, Asagumo, Aokumo, Akigumo, Yugumo The Yamagumo class were developed for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as six ship usually classified as a destroyer, but classed as destroyer escort given their nature, succeeding to the Akizuki class. They were planned as the new generation ASW … Read more
Svenska Marinen Two destroyers: Ehrensköld, Nordenskjöld 1927-63. Today we start a new cycle of Swedish Destroyers from the interwar to the end of WW2. By building its own designs and bringing many classes, the Swedish Navy copied no one and none copied them. They completed enough destroyers to fulfill a variety of roles aside their … Read more
Ironclad Sloop (1862-1864), service until 1885. HMS Enterprise (7th of the name) was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard, laid down originally as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, like her near sister and box battery USS Research. She was designed by Edward Reed as a central battery ironclad to … Read more
Dansk Marine F348 Hvidbjørnen, F349 Vædderen, F350 Ingolf, F351 Fylla Built 1961-63, service until 1992 The Hvidbjørnen class were four inspektionsskibe (“inspection ships”) later classified by NATO as Frigates despite being 1700 tonnes, built for the Danish Navy in 1961-1963. They were the first post-WW2 large vessels of the Danish Navy to be ordered. Their … Read more
