Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVPart VPart VITCG Yavuz resumed her duty as the flagship of the Turkish Navy in 1930. Much had changed since she was last operational, however. The German Empire had vanished, and the High Seas Fleet lay at the bottom in the...
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The Soviet Navy emerged from World War II a tiny force, possessed of a few ancient battleships and numerous smaller, obsolete craft. Geography has not been kind to Russian maritime.
In the wake of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to pursue the "8-8" program, designed to provide Japan with eight modern battlecruisers and eight modern battleships. Because.
Even before the Washington Naval Treaty limited new construction, the Imperial Japanese Navy determined that it would never be able to match the USN in numbers. The Japanese solution was to achieve ship to ship superiority. The IJN was the first navy to use the...
The Royal Navy followed up its outstanding Queen Elizabeth class battleships with five of the "R" class. Royal Sovereign was second of the class, carrying 8 15" guns, displacing 27500.
The annihilation of the Baltic Fleet at Tsushima left Russia short of battleships. Although the Tsar was successfully persuaded not to dispatch the Black Sea Fleet to Asia, the two.
This is the fifth and final post in a series commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionPart III: SMS Friedrich Der GrossePart IV: HMS Iron DukeThese ships also participated in the battle:HMS BarhamHMS WarspiteHMS New ZealandHMS CanadaHMS...
Part IV of a five part series on the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionPart III: SMS Friedrich Der GrosseHMS Iron Duke was the second battleship named.
Part III of a four part series to commemmorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowPart II: HMS LionThe first eight German dreadnoughts followed the naming.
This is the second of a four part series commemmorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowHMS Lion was the first of the Big Cats (also known as the "Splendid Cats"), and the sixth battlecruiser constructed for the Royal Navy. The...
Part I of a four part Jutland Series, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.German shipbuilding was deeply affected not only by the construction of Dreadnought,.
SMS Schleswig-Holstein was the fourth of the Deutschland class, the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by Germany. The Deutschland's were authorized by Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz' Fleet Acts, designed to provide.