Vainamoinen class coastal battleships (1931)
Finnish Navy – Merivoimat 2 Coastal Battleships (1929-1945) Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen were both built at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku, launched in 1931 and 1933 and soon nicknamed in the international press the “Lighthouse Battleships”. Ilmarinen completed her trials and was commissioned on 17 April 1934, joining her sister ship Väinämöinen already in … Read more