BATTLESHIPS The Japanese Navy had a tradition of producing innovative battleship designs which were the equal, or better, of many of their foreign contemporaries. When Nagato was commisioned in 920, she was probably the most powerful battlewagon then afloat, with her very powerful 16-inch armament, good protection, and very respectable speed. Yamato's commisioning in 1941 re-established Japan as ...

Warships from the ironclad era to the present day ...

An exceptional German naval commander faces a unique situation in WW ll . Prince of Honor details the Battle of the River Plate (HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles and HMS Exeter against Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee.); documents Spee's raider cruise & scuttling in Montevideo; explains the evacuation of Spee's crew to Buenos Aires & Captain Langsdorff's suicide. Prince of Honor is the Definative book that ...

The Battleship Kong The Japanese battleship Kong , a ship with a magical name and an important history, was budgeted in 1910 and ordered from the British shipbuilder Vickers in January 1911. This was a significant act in an era of important shipbuilding. Britain itself was in a great arms race with Germany. The Dreadnought of 1905, with its speed, size, and firepower, had made all earlier ...

Pancernik Bismarck narysowany grafik trojwymiarow .

On July 1, 1936 at the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, construction of the most famous German battleship ...

Battleships, Battlecruiser, Cruiser and other ships and operations of the second World War for example the sinking of the Bismarck - The destruction of the Tirpitz, the fatal hit on the HMS HOOD, the loss of the Scharnhorst.

On the evening of 21st May 1941 Hood and Prince of Wales together with six destroyers were leaving Scapa Flow. Holland had orders to proceed to Iceland to refuel, then to patrol the Iceland-Greenland and Iceland-Faeroes gaps. At almost the same time, Bismarck, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, sailed from Korsfjord, near Bergen, Norway, destined for the Atlantic.