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Aircraft Carriers
Eagle
An aircraft carrier, laid down as HMS Audacious, was upgraded during the construction process to...
Sekiryu
A hypothetical development of the Taihō and Taihō Kai aircraft carriers with larger hangars, an...
United States
USS United States was designed as the flagship of a series of five attack aircraft carriers of a...
Admiral Nakhimov
After World War II ended, the Soviets were left with the hulls of unfinished Sovetsky...
Admiral Orlov
A design for completing a Project 23 battleship as a heavy aircraft carrier. The ship's AA...
Audacious
After the naval treaty displacement limitations were lifted and heavier aircraft appeared, the...
Essex
The first Essex-class aircraft carriers were ordered as part of the Navy's expansion program of...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
From the deck of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, the second Midway-class aircraft carrier, a...
Hakuryū
The G-15 project, or the Improved Taihō, had larger dimensions, an enhanced armor layout, and an...
Malta
1942 sparked an idea to build an aircraft carrier whose size would be limited only by the dock...
Manfred von Richthofen
A hypothetical variation of a heavy German aircraft carrier based on the unfinished H-39 class...
Max Immelmann
This design is one of the possible variants of the H-39 class battleship that was completed as...
Midway
Taking into consideration the lessons learned from the Pacific battles in 1942, the U.S. Navy...
Otto Lilienthal
A hypothetical variation of a heavy German aircraft carrier based on the unfinished H-39 class...
Shinano
The largest aircraft carrier of World War II and the largest warship sunk by a submarine....
Werner Voss
A hypothetical variation of a heavy German aircraft carrier based on the unfinished H-39 class...
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AL Hornet
An Eagle Union aircraft carrier, and the youngest sister of Yorktown and Enterprise. The voice...
Aquila
Liner Roma was converted into an aircraft carrier during World War II. The ship's hull was...
August von Parseval
Graf Zeppelin-class ships were equipped with classic steam turbine propulsion. The lead aircraft...
Chkalov
The further development of the Project 71 aircraft carrier continued under the "large aircraft...
Chkalov B
The project of a high-speed aircraft carrier armed with dual-purpose main battery artillery...
Colossus
The Colossus class was envisioned as an intermediate link between the heavy aircraft carriers of...
Enterprise
USS Enterprise, the second Yorktown-class carrier, played a role in raids on the Marshall...
Graf Zeppelin
Recognizing the importance of building aircraft carriers, the German leadership sent a group of...
Graf Zeppelin B
Recognizing the importance of building aircraft carriers, the German leadership sent a group of...
Hornet
USS Hornet, the third Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, participated in the renowned Doolittle...
Implacable
Illustrious-class aircraft carriers were designed based on effective Ark Royal, but they...
Indomitable
HMS Indomitable, the fourth ship of the Illustrious series, was an attempt to solve the problem...
Kaga
After the Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed the aircraft carrier while it was under construction,...
Kaga B
After the Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed the aircraft carrier while it was under construction,...
Lexington
Following the Washington Naval Conference, a decision was made to convert two Lexington-class...
Pobeda
In April 1945, the scientific and technical committee filed an offer to the Soviet Naval...
Saipan
In 1943, Admiral King demanded that two light aircraft carriers be built per year to compensate...
Saipan B
In 1943, Admiral King demanded that two light aircraft carriers be built per year to compensate...
Sanzang
Sanzang is a Buddhist monk, scientist, philosopher, traveler, and translator. He is not only an...
Shōkaku
The Shōkaku-class aircraft carriers were an improved version of the Hiryū-class ships. They had...
Theseus
A light carrier of the Colossus class, the most numerous class of light aircraft carriers in the...
Yorktown
The Yorktown-class ships entered service between 1937 and 1941 as the first mass-produced...
Ark Royal
The new aircraft carrier was to combine all the innovations: a double-level hangar, steam...
Béarn
Béarn was laid down as a Normandie-class battleship, but unlike her sister ships, she featured a...
Erich Loewenhardt
The second ship of the Graf Zeppelin class, aircraft carrier B, was laid down in Kiel in 1938...
Furious
Furious, a Courageous-class "light battlecruiser," had 76 mm armor protection and carried two...
Independence
A set of speedy light aircraft carriers, converted from several incomplete Cleveland-class...
Ranger
USS Ranger was the first American ship designed and built as an aircraft carrier. The technical...
Ryūjō
The Washington Naval Treaty restrictions did not apply to ships with a displacement of up to...
Serov
The preliminary design of Project 71 for an aircraft carrier with low displacement based on the...
Weser
Seydlitz, an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, was built in Bremen. In June 1942, when the ship was...
Hermes
The first ship in the world that was laid down as an aircraft carrier. She was based on the hull...
Hōshō
Japan started its first experiments with aircraft carriers with a continuous flight deck right...
Komsomolets
Training ship Ocean was designed based on a passenger liner and constructed at the German...
Langley
The achievements of aircraft carriers in the British Royal Navy significantly affected the...
Rhein
During the 1930s and 1940s, Germany developed several aviation-capable ship designs, including a...
Battleships
Admiral Ushakov
In 1945, the Navy's General Staff gave the order to develop a battleship under Project 24, which...
Devastation
A ship that embodies all the ideas of the British shipbuilding school of the 1940s concerning...
Hannover
A further development of the H-class project with reinforced main battery guns. The next step...
Maine
In this hypothetical development of the Montana-class battleships, the number of 406 mm guns...
Patrie
If development had continued on battleships with 431 mm main battery guns, the next logical step...
Satsuma
The plans for the Yamato-class battleships included the construction of eight ships before 1950....
ARP Yamato
A Fleet of Fog heavy battleship modeled after the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
Amerigo Vespucci
A hypothetical project that is a variant of the development of Italian ships based on the...
BA Montana
This ship's look is inspired by Takanashi Hoshino from Blue Archive, a sleepy yet playful and...
Bourgogne
One project that was developed in the late 1930s in response to intel about the German Navy's...
Bungo
After revising the development plan of the Japanese Navy, new battleships and battlecruisers...
Comodoro
A mighty battleship with a design that could have incorporated a number of design solutions...
Conqueror
After battleship Vanguard was laid down, the plan was to develop British battleships in such a...
Cristoforo Colombo
A hypothetical project that is a variant of the development of Italian ships based on the...
Grosser Kurfürst
The experience gained from battleships at the beginning of World War II prompted a revision of...
Incomparable
When Admiral Fisher returned to the post of First Sea Lord in 1915, the leadership of the...
Irresistible
A battleship with sixteen 234 mm main guns. It could hypothetically have been built in Britain...
Kremlin
The development of the new Project 24 commenced in 1941. The project's requirements included...
Libertad
A mighty battleship with a design that could have incorporated a number of design solutions...
Louisiana
This was one of the options for completing the Montana-class battleships. To create a hybrid...
Mecklenburg
A hypothetical variant of an H-class battleship project based on the Bismarck class instead of...
Montana
The Montana-class ships were an evolution of the Iowa-class "fast battleships": They were...
Montana 2
The Montana-class ships were an evolution of the Iowa-class "fast battleships": They were...
Ohio
A hypothetical armament project for the Montana-class battleship with eight 457 mm guns housed...
Oregon
A "fast battleship" design that preceded the Iowa class. The ship's primary armament consisted...
Preussen
The experience gained at the beginning of World War II prompted a revision of the technical...
Rhode Island
A battleship based on a 1938 "fast battleship" design variant, featuring an alternative armament...
Ruggiero di Lauria
A fast battlecruiser armed with eight 457 mm guns. The project is based on ideas introduced in...
République
In 1939, the construction of additional Richelieu-class battleships was approved. One of the...
Schlieffen
A project of a high-speed battleship with four main battery turrets and a displacement of...
Shikishima
The plans for the Yamato-class battleships included the construction of eight ships before 1950....
Sicilia
A conceptual design for a battleship equipped with four quadruple-gun turrets housing a total of...
Slava
Preliminary design XIII of Project 24 was the most interesting option for the Ministry of...
St. Vincent
In November 1920, the further development of the battlecruiser project was presented—project I3....
Thunderer
After Vanguard was laid down, the further development of British battleships was aimed at...
Utah
A design for a powerful 70,000-ton battleship with modest speed, armed with 457 mm main battery guns.
Vermont
During World War I, in the midst of the dreadnought arms race, designers were given complete...
Willem de Eerste
A battlecruiser—a further development of the G3 design—that could hypothetically have been built...
Wisconsin
Wisconsin, an Iowa-class fast battleship, was among the final battleships to be commissioned...
Yamato
The preliminary draft design of the battleship developed in Japan in the mid-1930s had a...
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[Grosser Kurfürst]
This ship is a copy of Großer Kurfürst and is suitable for Clan Battles only
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AL Sov. Rossiya
Sovetskaya Rossiya is the pride of the Northern Parliament—one of the biggest and mightiest...
Adatara
Following the announcement of an ambitious shipbuilding program by the U.S. in 1919, Japan...
Alsace
The project was developed as a response to intel that came to be known about the characteristics...
Bajie
Bajie is half-man, half-pig, and one of the main mythological characters in Chinese culture. A...
Daisen
In 1916, as a part of the development of the fleet, the Japanese parliament approved the...
Delaware
In the 1940s and 50s, the option of transforming the Iowa-class battleships into hybrid...
Duncan
The further development of the 1920 battlecruiser became project G3. It differed from its...
Friedrich der Grosse
In 1938 and 1939, a plan for the modernization and expansion of the German fleet was developed....
Georgia
Preliminary design of a battleship with 457 mm guns in twin-gun turrets, based on the South...
Giuseppe Verdi
Several battleship projects were developed in Italy collaboratively with the U.S.S.R., including...
Hizen
A pre-draft battleship project was developed in the mid-1930s in Japan. It included different...
Hotaka
A powerful battlecruiser design based on concepts created in Japan in response to the ambitious...
Illinois
In the 1940s, several projects to modernize and reconstruct battleships were developed—from...
Iowa
The Iowa-class battleships, among the most formidable representatives of their ship type...
Iowa 2
The Iowa-class battleships, among the most formidable representatives of their ship type...
Iwami
One of the battleship projects developed in Japan in the mid-1930s. The ship was supposed to...
Iwami B
One of the battleship projects developed in Japan in the mid-1930s. The ship was supposed to...
Izumo
In 1934, Japan decided to abandon the displacement limits set by the Washington Naval Conference...
Jean Bart
Jean Bart, the second Richelieu-class battleship, was launched after the outbreak of World...
Jean Bart B
Jean Bart, the second Richelieu-class battleship, was launched after the outbreak of World...
Karl XIV Johan
Under the Treaty of Versailles, the German Navy was limited to ships with a displacement of no...
Kearsarge
In the 1930s, several variants of large artillery ships were designed to reinforce the Soviet...
Kearsarge B
In the 1930s, several variants of large artillery ships were designed to reinforce the Soviet...
Lepanto
The project for a battleship with a displacement of 42,000 tons was prepared by Italian...
Lion
After Japan refused to provide data on the battleships they were building, the countries that...
Los Andes
A fast battleship that could have been ordered by Argentina and built at British shipyards, she...
Louchuan
Louchuan was a Chinese naval ship primarily used as a floating fortress during the Han dynasty....
Marco Polo
As part of the cooperation between Italy and the U.S.S.R., a project was created for a ship with...
Marlborough
One of the options to use as a basis for designing the Lion-class battleships was project...
Minnesota
A possible upgraded design of one of the never-built battleships of the South Dakota class. From...
Missouri
USS Missouri, the third Iowa-class battleship, was laid down in 1941 and launched three years...
Musashi
Musashi, the second Yamato-class battleship, became the flagship of the Combined Fleet in 1943....
Navarin
In February 1914, work on a new battleship design commenced, with the primary focus being to...
Niord
A fast battleship with a similar layout to World War I-era German battlecruiser designs. Had...
Pommern
When designing the H-class battleship, the main requirement was for her firepower to surpass...
Pommern B
When designing the H-class battleship, the main requirement was for her firepower to surpass...
Prinz Rupprecht
One of the projects developed in 1918 by the designers of the Construction Office of the German...
Prinz Sigismund
In 1915, it became clear that the war was far from over, and it was necessary to speed up the...
Scarlet Thunder
With its retro-futuristic design, the Scarlet Thunder ship is an engineering marvel that...
Sovetsky Soyuz
In the spring of 1937, the Soviet authorities learned about the construction of new German and...
Sun Yat-Sen
The project of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship incorporated considerable upgrades in the...
Taihang
A battleship of the A140-J3 design developed in Japan in the mid-1930s, preceding the...
Tsurugi
According to the Japanese Navy's new development plan, the projects of battleships and...
Valparaíso
A unique battleship that combined high speed, powerful anti-aircraft systems, advanced...
Victoria
A swift battleship that shared the layout and features of the Italian Vittorio Veneto-class...
Wujing
Wujing is a former celestial General who was banished to the mortal realm and turned into a...
Xuan Wu
Xuan Wu (the Black Tortoise) is one of the Four Symbols in ancient Chinese mythology. It...
AL Littorio
The second Vittorio Veneto-class warship to be built, and one of the most powerful battleships...
Alabama
The fourth South Dakota-class battleship, USS Alabama, was laid down in February 1940 and...
Alabama B
The fourth South Dakota-class battleship, USS Alabama, was laid down in February 1940 and...
Alabama ST
The fourth South Dakota-class battleship, USS Alabama, was laid down in February 1940 and...
Alabama VL
The fourth South Dakota-class battleship, USS Alabama, was laid down in February 1940 and...
Amagi
With the outbreak of World War I, Japan started designing battlecruisers. Between 1916 and 1918,...
Anhalt
In 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm II received initial drafts for a fresh battleship derived from the...
Atlântico
During the development of the future Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was offered several dozen projects....
BA Tirpitz
This ship's look is inspired by Izayoi Nonomi from Blue Archive, the most cheerful and...
Bismarck
The original plan was for the new ship to be armed with eight 330 mm guns; however, their...
Borodino
While designing the Project 82 heavy cruiser, the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry of the...
Borodino TE
A tournament edition clone of a ship for the purpose of testing new mechanics and ship contents...
Brandenburg
In 1932, Germany began research for a 35,000-ton battleship project. It was based on the design...
Brandenburg B
In 1932, Germany began research for a 35,000-ton battleship project. It was based on the design...
Champagne
In the 1930s, France and the U.S.S.R. signed the Treaty of Mutual Assistance that opened up,...
Constellation
In 1911, when information about the keel-laying of Japanese ships of the Kongō-class came to...
Flandre
One of the projects developed in response to received intel about planned German battleships...
Gascogne
Against the backdrop of large-scale constructions of new battleships by all naval powers in the...
Hawke
After World War I, the British Admiralty continued working on new battlecruiser projects. The...
Ignis Purgatio
Originally designed for a Naval mission of the purpose now long forgotten, Ignis Purgatio was...
Ipiranga
A hypothetical design for a Brazilian Navy battleship developed based on British shipbuilding...
Kansas
From the very start of World War I, the General Board of the Navy intended to build battleships...
Kii
Following the announcement of an ambitious shipbuilding program by the U.S. in 1919, Japan...
Lenin
In 1935, the authorities of the U.S.S.R. decided to build a "big fleet," and the nation's design...
Massachusetts
After entering service, USS Massachusetts—the third South Dakota-class battleship—was sent to...
Massachusetts B
After entering service, USS Massachusetts—the third South Dakota-class battleship—was sent to...
Monarch
After receiving intel that Japan wouldn't limit the caliber of its new battleships, British...
Nebraska
When designing the North Carolina-class battleships, the F project was developed—a combination...
North Carolina
The inaugural series of a new generation of American battleships which began to be designed in...
North Carolina 2
The inaugural series of a new generation of American battleships that began to be designed in...
North Carolina CLR
The U.S. Navy initially developed a battleship featuring 356 mm guns under contract, but she...
Odin
Between 1932 and 1934, various projects were being considered to further develop and enhance the...
Odin TE
A tournament edition clone of a ship for the purpose of testing new mechanics and ship contents...
Picardie
In 1912, France initiated the construction of larger docks at shipyards in Toulon and Brittany....
Ragnarok
The vessel is immeasurably ancient—a relic of days long forgotten. It was built in the shipyards...
Richelieu
The Richelieu class was the French response to the Italian Littorio class. The final project was...
Roma
The third battleship of the Vittorio Veneto class, Roma, was built according to the 1938...
Tennessee
The Tennessee-class battleships were a direct evolution of the New Mexico class, featuring a...
Tirpitz
The second Bismarck-class battleship, Tirpitz, was built in Wilhelmshaven. A shortage of fuel...
Tirpitz B
The second Bismarck-class battleship, Tirpitz, was built in Wilhelmshaven. A shortage of fuel...
Vanguard
An urgent need for modern battleships brought the British back to completing the construction of...
Vittorio Veneto
The design of battleships that met the requirements of the Washington Naval Treaty began in the...
Vladivostok
In 1935, new international challenges pushed Soviet shipbuilding policy toward the development...
Volunteer State
The Tennessee-class battleships were a direct evolution of the New Mexico class, distinguished...
Yumihari
After the Russo-Japanese War ended, Japan adopted the Eight-Eight Fleet Program, stipulating...
Zieten
In 1918, the Design Bureau of the Construction Office conducted a series of studies that...
AL Prinz Heinrich
Prinz Heinrich is a P-class heavy cruiser of the Iron Blood. She is an optimistic person who...
Ashitaka
The fourth Amagi-class ship was laid down in Nagasaki at the Mitsubishi dockyard in...
California
USS California, the second Tennessee-class battleship, was laid down in 1916 and entered service...
Collingwood
In 1920, 419 mm guns were considered as one of the options for the G3 battlecruiser project....
Colorado
The final series of "conventional" battleships for the U.S. Navy, characterized by robust armor...
Colorado 2
The final series of "conventional" battleships for the U.S. Navy, characterized by robust armor...
Duke of York
The third King George V-class battleship—HMS Duke of York—was laid down in 1937 in Clydebank and...
Florida
After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, the "battleship building holiday" began. It...
Francesco Caracciolo
The 1913 fleet replenishment program provided for the construction of four high-speed...
Gneisenau
In 1933, Germany set out to design ships that would exceed the limits stipulated by the...
Hood
In 1915, development commenced on a new battlecruiser with enhanced sea endurance for the North...
Hyūga
Hyūga, the second Ise-class battleship, was considered obsolete by the beginning of World War II...
King George V
In 1933, the British Admiralty started designing a new generation of battleships. By 1935,...
Lugdunum
The Arctic's icy grip hides numerous mysteries—some destined to remain untouched, others meant...
Lyon
In 1912, France started building new, bigger docks. The shipbuilders were able to expand the...
Nagato
The Nagato-class ships were the first battleships fully designed and built in Japan. Their...
Nelson
During the "battleship vacation," the countries that had signed the Washington Naval Treaty...
Poltava
In May 1936, the U.S.S.R. Council of Labor and Defense gave the order to build eight battleships...
Prinz Heinrich
In 1915, it became clear that the war was far from over, and it was necessary to speed up the...
Renown '44
HMS Renown was laid down in 1915 and entered service in September 1916. The ship didn't manage...
Rodney
One of the most formidable British Navy warships during the interwar period, Rodney featured a...
Rooke
Battlecruiser designs K2 and K3, presented in 1920, were deemed unsuitable due to their enormous...
Scharnhorst
The lead ship of her class, Scharnhorst, was built at the Wilhelmshaven shipyard. At the...
Scharnhorst B
The lead ship of her class, Scharnhorst, was built at the Wilhelmshaven shipyard. At the...
Scharnhorst '43
The lead ship in a series of two battleships designed for raiding operations entered service a...
Sinop
After the Izmail-class battlecruisers were laid down, the Naval General Staff commenced the...
Strasbourg
The second Dunkerque-class battlecruiser featured an improved armor layout, including a thicker...
Teng She
Outfitted with cutting-edge research equipment, this ship was built to navigate treacherous...
West Virginia '44
USS West Virginia sank as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the ship was...
Yukon
A variant of a project for a 35,000-ton battleship developed in 1935 in Great Britain, armed...
Andrea Doria
The second series of Italian battleships was based on the improved Conte di Cavour design....
Arizona
USS Arizona, the second Pennsylvania-class battleship, was laid down in March 1914 and entered...
Bayern
In 1910, it became apparent that the caliber of guns on upcoming battleships of Great Britain,...
Dunkerque
After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, the design of ships of a new class began. In...
Dunkerque B
After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, the design of ships of a new class began. In...
Fusō
Battlecruiser Kongō was used as the basis for the design of a new battleship. To surpass the New...
Ise
During the development of the Fusō class, military experience and new requirements for fleet...
Izmail
After the tender for the "Baltic Sea armorclad" project closed, the Naval General Staff reviewed...
Mackensen
When designing a new battlecruiser, the issue of artillery was of utmost importance. Different...
Mutsu
Mutsu, the second Nagato-class battleship, entered service when the Washington Naval Conference...
New Mexico
The ship closely resembles the Pennsylvania class but incorporates several enhancements,...
Normandie
After the approval of the Bretagne-class battleship project, research to further improve future...
Novorossiysk
Giulio Cesare was laid down at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa in 1910. She participated in World...
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich, a Mackensen-class battlecruiser, was named after one of the sons of...
Queen Elizabeth
In 1912, it was planned to build four fast battleships with 381 mm guns. The lead ship, Queen...
Renown
Having returned to the post of First Sea Lord, Admiral Fisher lobbied for the construction of...
Repulse
The second ship of the Renown class—HMS Repulse—was laid down in 1915 and entered service...
Repulse B
The second ship of the Renown class—HMS Repulse—was laid down in 1915 and entered service...
W. Virginia '41
The third and final Colorado-class battleship. USS West Virginia spent the interwar period...
Warspite
HMS Warspite joined the Fifth Battleship Squadron in 1915. She participated in the Battle...
ARP Haruna
A Fleet of Fog battleship modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 3rd Kongō-class battleship,...
ARP Hiei
A Fleet of Fog battleship modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 2nd Kongō-class battleship,...
ARP Kirishima
A Fleet of Fog battleship modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 4th Kongō-class battleship,...
ARP Kongō
A Fleet of Fog battleship modeled after the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
Agincourt
Brazilian dreadnought Rio de Janeiro was laid down in 1911 in Elswick, but Brazil canceled its...
Bretagne
The late 1900s to early 1910s saw a tendency toward increasing the caliber of main battery guns...
Conte di Cavour
Battleships of the Conte di Cavour class were armed with 13 main battery guns placed in twin-...
Derfflinger
Improved armor protection on British ships highlighted the need to strengthen the armament of...
Giulio Cesare
One of the three Conte di Cavour-class battleships was laid down in 1910. After World War I,...
HSF Hiei
A nautical training ship assigned to Yokosuka Girls' Marine High School. Despite the ship's long...
Iron Duke
The idea to equip battleships with heavy 152 mm secondary guns came about in 1909. The four Iron...
Kongō
In 1910, Japan ordered a new battlecruiser from British company Vickers, and Japanese engineers...
König
The König design was based on Kaiser—the preceding battleship class. The new ship was equipped...
New York
As the gun caliber on British dreadnoughts grew in size, a decision was made to equip new...
Oklahoma
USS Oklahoma, the second Nevada-class battleship, entered service in May 1916. During World...
Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
The lead ship of four Baltic battleships, Gangut, was launched in 1911. She didn't participate...
Pyotr Velikiy
In 1907, the Naval General Staff developed the Naval Warfare Development Program of 1909–1919....
Rio de Janeiro
In 1906, Brazil, striving to become the country with the strongest navy on the continent,...
Texas
During World War I, New York-class battleship USS Texas took part in patrol and convoy missions...
Tiger
In January 1911, Japan ordered the development and construction of a battlecruiser in Great...
Viribus Unitis
The naval race between Italy and Austria-Hungary that had dragged on from the middle of the 19th...
Arkansas Beta
USS Arkansas, the second Wyoming-class battleship, was laid down in 1910 and entered service two...
Courbet
The new design of the battleship took into account the wishes of the leadership regarding the...
Dante Alighieri
The beginning of the dreadnought race was ignored by Italy due to the high cost of ships of the...
Gangut
At the end of 1907, after the requirement specifications for the new battleship had been...
Imperator Nikolai I
To prevent a possible advantage of the Turkish Fleet over the Black Sea Fleet during World...
Ishizuchi
The original Vickers project commissioned by Japan had five twin-gun turrets with 305 mm guns....
Kaiser
The new Kaiser class marked a big leap forward compared with her predecessors: She incorporated...
Moltke
The next ship that superseded battlecruiser Von der Tann was built under an enhanced design. A...
Myōgi
The construction of powerful and fast battlecruisers in Great Britain prompted Japan to start...
Orion
The first ships with 343 mm guns, the Orion-class battleships, known as super-dreadnought, were...
Queen Mary
The project for a third trio of British battlecruisers with 343 mm guns was based on the...
Wyoming
In 1908, a discussion arose within the U.S. Navy regarding the possibility of transitioning to a...
Bellerophon
The construction of Dreadnought revealed the obvious advantages of the ship class over squadron...
Dreadnought
At the turn of the century, the idea to substitute the classic squadron battleship with a...
Indefatigable
The Invincible-class ships suffered from limited aiming angles for their side turrets, so the...
Kawachi
The Satsuma-class ships were to become the first Japanese dreadnoughts, but given the shortage...
Knyaz Suvorov
After suffering battleship losses during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Navy needed new...
König Albert
SMS König Albert, a Kaiser-class battleship, was laid down as Ersatz Ägir and built at the...
Nassau
In 1903, on the proposal of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the development of a new armored ship began....
South Carolina
In the early 20th century, the United States reinforced its naval fleet by constructing several...
Turenne
Several projects were approved under the naval program of 1906, which provided for the...
Von der Tann
The German fleet needed a qualitative leap to counter British battlecruisers effectively. The...
Mikasa
Compared to other battleships ordered under the 1896 program, Mikasa had enhanced casemate armor...
Cruisers
Annapolis
The project is a theoretical advancement of heavy cruisers akin to the Des Moines class,...
Clausewitz
The next step in the development of German raider cruisers would be to install the latest...
Condé
Hypothetical further development of the French heavy cruisers. The ship was intended to counter...
Edgar
While working on the Minotaur-class project, British engineers were inspired by the U.S....
Jacksonville
A powerful light cruiser with fifteen 152 mm dual-purpose guns—this project is a hypothetical...
Novosibirsk
In the mid-1930s, the U.S.S.R. began working out preliminary designs for large artillery ships...
Piemonte
During the 1930s, the Italian company Ansaldo presented the Soviet Union with a collection of...
Alexander Nevsky
In 1955, the terms of reference were approved for the construction of a Project 84 light...
Austin
CL-154-class cruisers were designed in the U.S. as a further development of the Atlanta-class...
Brennus
This super-heavy cruiser is a hypothetical development of the C5 and Saint Louis designs. The...
Brisbane
After World War II, the Royal Australian Navy started reducing its fleet with the goal of...
Brisbane B
After World War II, the Royal Australian Navy started reducing its fleet with the goal of...
Castilla
While developing their own heavy cruisers, Spanish engineers actively adopted Italian experience...
Cerberus
A sizable and seaworthy cruiser and an advancement of an Australian design from the early 1920s,...
Colbert
According to post-war plans, the French Navy was supposed to receive six AA defense cruisers,...
Defence
A hypothetical development of "big cruiser" designs created by British shipbuilders in the late...
Des Moines
The heavy cruisers designed during World War II became the epitome of their class, making them...
Gibraltar
Having learned that Japan and Germany were building heavy cruisers that surpassed the limits...
Goliath
After the failure of the second London Naval Treaty, the British Admiralty again engaged in...
Gouden Leeuw
The ship is a version of the Project 1047 battlecruiser incorporating engineering solutions from...
Henri IV
The project for a heavy cruiser with a displacement of 13,000 tons was supposed to be armed with...
Hildebrand
A large hybrid ship, originally an O-class cruiser, converted to function as an aircraft...
Hindenburg
A further development of the Admiral Hipper-class cruisers, unconstrained by the Washington...
Incheon
This heavy cruiser armed with eight automatic 203 mm main caliber guns is an alternative version...
Jinan
A further development of the Atlanta-class cruisers was to be the CL-154 project, which...
Kitakami
At the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Kitakami provided cover for landing operations of...
Komissar
A formidable heavy cruiser with potent artillery and an onboard air group, designed in early...
Marseille
In the process of developing a battlecruiser or "large" cruiser in the late 1920s and early...
Minotaur
The design process of a light cruiser continued in 1946 and resulted in a project with a...
Monmouth
A hypothetical design embodying the idea of a heavy cruiser with 234 mm main battery guns within...
Moskva
During the course of the development of the 68-bis project, Admiral Kuznetsov proposed the...
Napoli
In the course of naval cooperation between Italy and the U.S.S.R., ship projects were prepared...
Napoli B
In the course of naval cooperation between Italy and the U.S.S.R., ship projects were prepared...
Noord-Brabant
A variant of the further development of the De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers with dual-purpose...
Petropavlovsk
After Nikolay Kuznetsov was removed from the post of the People's Commissar of the Navy in...
Petrozavodsk
Another heavy cruiser variant of Project 82 that was reworked, taking into account the...
Plymouth
During the process of further developing the Town-class cruisers between 1935 and 1936, several...
Prins van Oranje Golden
Evolving from Project 1047, this battlecruiser emerged in the late 1930s to confront the...
Prins van Oranje
Evolving from Project 1047, this battlecruiser emerged in the late 1930s to confront the...
Puerto Rico
After the failure of the second London Naval Treaty but before the outbreak of World War II, the...
Ravenna
The project for a ship with 203 mm main battery guns and a high speed that embodies the...
Salem
USS Salem, a Des Moines-class cruiser, served mainly in the Mediterranean from 1950 to 1956,...
San Martín
After World War II, Argentinian leaders planned on ordering the construction of new cruisers in...
Sevastopol
In May 1940, the Naval Academy hosted tactical games that involved the Project 69 cruiser and...
Smolensk
Preliminary light cruiser projects developed in 1950 included a ship armed with four...
Smolensk B
Preliminary light cruiser projects developed in 1950 included a ship armed with four...
Stalingrad
After purchasing cruiser Lützow from Germany and renaming her Petropavlovsk, the question of...
Svea
A hypothetical design of a light cruiser armed with dual-purpose automatic 152 mm guns. She is...
Utrecht
A variant of the further development of the De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers with dual-purpose...
Varese
A reimagined 1935 Italian "medium displacement" battleship concept, presented as a "large...
Venezia
The project for a ship with 203 mm main battery guns and a high speed that embodies the...
Vrijheid
A battlecruiser project (Project 1047) developed in the Netherlands in the late 1930s to counter...
Worcester
At the beginning of World War II, the U.S. was working on cruisers with an armored deck capable...
Yari
A heavy cruiser with enhanced torpedo armament, representing a hypothetical version of the "Type...
Yodo
The archive of the Japanese Navy has preserved a project of a cruiser with a displacement of...
Yoshino
A variant of the project of a large high-speed cruiser with 310 mm artillery for her main...
Yoshino B
A variant of the project of a large high-speed cruiser with 310 mm artillery for her main...
Zaō
Eight heavy cruisers were supposed to be built under the Japanese naval building program. They...
Zaō CLR
Eight heavy cruisers were supposed to be built under the Japanese naval building program. They...
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AL Azuma
Azuma is one of the most powerful cruisers of the Sakura Empire. She belongs to the so-called...
AL Ägir
An Iron Blood "large cruiser." Despite her all-black look, devil-like horns, and intimidating...
Admiral Schröder
Drawing from the experience gained in World War I, the concept of a large surface raider emerged...
Alaska
In the late 1930s, the U.S. was designing large ships with 305 mm main battery guns to counter...
Alaska B
In the late 1930s, the U.S. was designing large ships with 305 mm main battery guns to counter...
Almirante Oquendo
A heavy cruiser with a displacement of 17,500 tons embodying the "Super Washington" design,...
Andalucía
In parallel with the work on the construction and repair of ships for its navy, Francoist Spain...
Azuma
Shortly before the beginning of World War II, Japan found out that the U.S. had started...
Azuma B
Shortly before the beginning of World War II, Japan found out that the U.S. had started...
BA Takahashi
This ship's look is inspired by Okusora Ayane from Blue Archive, known as the brains and common...
Blücher
An Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser and the second ship in this series, Blücher was...
Brest
After the construction of ships under the design of the cruiser with a displacement of...
Brindisi
It is a hypothetical development of a heavy cruiser project for the Spanish Navy by Italian...
Buffalo
As part of the development of cruisers capable of achieving a speed of 35 knots, various options...
Cambridge
A cruiser armed with 305 mm main battery guns, representing a hypothetical embodiment of the...
Carnot
In the process of developing a "large cruiser" in the late 1920s and early 1930s, several...
Chikuma II
A Tone-class heavy cruiser, this warship represents an advancement from the Mogami class....
Chikuma II Golden
This Tone-class heavy cruiser represents an advancement from the Mogami class. Notably, all four...
Dalian
A modernized version of the MK-6 cruiser project with gun mounts from the 1940s replaced with...
Dmitri Donskoi
In 1943, the Navy's Main Staff ordered the design of a light cruiser (Project 65) intended to...
Drake
After the start of World War II, W. Churchill ordered the development of a new heavy cruiser...
Encounter
A fast ship project based on draft designs of a cruiser with 203 mm main guns was planned for...
Ferrante Gonzaga
A hypothetical design of a light cruiser armed with advanced artillery systems that were under...
Hector
In 1936, Great Britain started designing a cruiser based on a smaller version of the hull of...
Ibuki
An improved heavy cruiser based on the Mogami-class ships. Cruiser Ibuki was laid down in...
Johan de Witt
An alternative project to the one for the cruiser from back in 1939—it preserved the armament...
Kozma Minin
A hypothetical project for a heavy cruiser and one of the development options for Project 65. In...
Kronshtadt
In 1937, it was decided to build heavy cruisers with 254 mm main battery guns instead of Type B...
Mengchong
Mengchong was a warship used in China in the second and third centuries AD. She had solid,...
Menno van Coehoorn
A hypothetical design for a light cruiser armed with dual-purpose guns. The ship could have been...
Michelangelo
The Washington Naval Conference gave Italy the opportunity to build battleships from 1927....
Neptune
Work on a new-generation light cruiser started in February 1944. The designers used the...
Riga
After purchasing cruiser Lützow from Germany and renaming her Petropavlovsk, the question of...
Roon
Following the denunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and the signing of the Anglo-German Naval...
Roon CLR
Following the denunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and the signing of the Anglo-German Naval...
Saint-Louis
With the outbreak of World War II, the French suspended the construction of ships that could not...
Santander
In accordance with the Rio de Janeiro Treaty of 1947, the old Brooklyn-class cruisers were to be...
Seattle
During the early 1940s, the United States was actively involved in the development of new...
Sejong
CL-154 class cruisers were designed in the U.S. as a development of the Atlanta-class cruisers....
Siegfried
In 1938, a decision prevailed that in addition to raider cruisers, the German Navy needed...
Suzuya
The third Mogami-class cruiser to be built was part of a unique series initially designed as...
Suzuya Golden
The third Mogami-class cruiser to be built was part of a unique series initially designed as...
Takahashi
The Japanese Navy replenishment program included the construction of two cruisers with fifteen...
Tianjin
A heavy cruiser with a similar design to the early version of Soviet Project 82, initially...
Tulsa
Some experts considered the rapid-firing 203 mm guns mounted on Des Moines-class heavy cruisers...
Vallejo
In the summer of 1941, the Bureau of Ships began to develop a cruiser with dual-purpose main...
Van Speijk
In 1938, against the backdrop of international tensions, the Dutch Ministry of Defense decided...
Vyazma
A "small battleship" design developed in the early 1950s, with its primary armament comprising...
Ägir
Raider battlecruisers were supposed to carry six 380 mm guns placed in three turrets. However,...
AL Cheshire
Cheshire is a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. Loyal and positive, Cheshire wears a maid outfit....
AL Montpelier
Brave and energetic like her elder sister, Cleveland. Loves battles and stands up to even the...
ARP Maya
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
ARP Takao
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after Takao, the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
Admiraal
A light cruiser with a design that incorporated experience drawn from World War II, as well as...
Admiral Hipper
In 1934, a technical design specification was developed for a draft design of a heavy cruiser....
Albemarle
At the end of 1939, the British Naval Shipbuilding Office focused on the development of cruisers...
Almirante Grau
The flagships of the Peruvian Navy traditionally bear the name of Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario,...
Amalfi
Once the Civil War was over, Spain was looking for ways to reinforce its Navy. One of the ships...
Anchorage
Historically, U.S. Navy heavy cruisers were not armed with torpedo tubes—this put them in a...
Atago
Takao-class cruiser. During World War II, she supported assault groups during the invasions of...
Atago B
Takao-class cruiser. During World War II, she supported assault groups during the invasions of...
Auckland
A heavy cruiser armed with nine 203 mm guns. The ship was based on a project developed in Great...
Bagration
Project 65 was under development from 1943 to 1946. A total of 40 draft designs were considered...
Baltimore
With the beginning of World War II, restrictions on building heavy cruisers were lifted. A new...
Bayard
The further development of the La Galissonnière- and De Grasse-class light cruisers dictates an...
Belfast '43
Commissioned in 1939, the second ship of the Edinburgh class, HMS Belfast, struck a German mine...
Cataluña
After the Nationalists proclaimed victory in the Civil War, ties between Spain and the Fascist...
Chapayev
In August 1937, the High Command of the Soviet Navy presented an updated plan for the...
Charles Martel
The design of the new cruiser was based on that of her predecessor, Algérie, using elements from...
Cherbourg
After signing the Washington Naval Treaty, France had the right to build new battleships despite...
Cheshire
In 1940, a project for a 15,500-ton cruiser armed with 203 mm guns was considered. It was...
Cleveland
With the onset of World War II, the restrictions imposed by treaties were no longer applicable,...
Congress
Following the expiration of the London Naval Treaty, the United States began designing ships...
Cross of Dorn
This warship is one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Black Templars. Only a few chosen...
De Zeven Provinciën
The upgraded postwar project for cruiser De Zeven Provinciën. The cruiser started to look like a...
Dmitry Pozharsky
Project 68-bis cruiser Dmitry Pozharsky was laid down in Leningrad at Ordzhonikidze Shipyard...
Edinburgh
In August 1933, given the construction of the Mogami-class ships in Japan, the development of...
Haarlem
In 1939, the Dutch authorities decided to construct capital ships for their navy. Following...
Hampshire
The Japanese constructing cruisers with ten 8-inch guns made the British Admiralty think about...
Harbin
Between 1939 and 1941, a number of draft designs of a "long-range small light cruiser" were...
Ignacio Allende
In 1947, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance was signed in Rio de Janeiro,...
Irian
The Project 68-bis Ordzhonikidze cruiser was laid down in October 1949 in Leningrad, launched in...
Jaarsveld
A variant of the design of a German M-class cruiser armed with dual-purpose 128 mm guns that...
Mainz
In 1936, Germany ordered two cruisers armed with 150 mm guns housed in four triple-gun turrets....
Mainz B
In 1936, Germany ordered two cruisers armed with 150 mm guns housed in four triple-gun turrets....
Metz
The design for a "17,500-ton battlecruiser" was developed in the mid-1920s. This original ship...
Mikhail Kutuzov
The Project 68bis cruiser was laid down in Mykolaiv in 1951. From 1955, she served in the...
Mogami
According to the London Naval Treaty, Japan had the right to build cruisers with artillery up to...
Nottingham
After signing the Washington Naval Treaty, Great Britain immediately got down to the task of...
Numancia
One of the variants of the "Washington" cruiser project, proposed to the Spanish Navy by the...
Ochakov
Preliminary designs for several light cruisers were developed in 1950. One of them was armed...
Prinz Eugen
Prinz Eugen, the third Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, was built according to a reworked design....
Protector
A variant of the "large cruiser" design, similar to the Alaska-class ships, but armed with seven...
Pyotr Bagration
Project 65 was under development from 1943 to 1946. A total of 40 draft designs were considered...
Rochester
When her crew completed training, USS Rochester, an Oregon City-class cruiser, became the...
STAR Edinburgh
A ship captured by a space crystal. To communicate with people, the celestial body uses...
San Diego
USS San Diego, an Atlanta-class cruiser, accompanied aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway,...
Schill
In the late 1930s, the German Navy High Command ordered the development of a project that was...
Shimanto
The development of the Mogami-class cruisers into anti-aircraft defense cruisers, which implied...
Statenland
A light cruiser with a design that incorporated experience drawn from World War II, as well as...
Tallinn
Before the Great Patriotic War started, the Soviet Navy's authorities took measures to...
Tiger '59
In 1941, two "improved Fiji"-class cruisers were ordered. In 1948, it was decided to complete...
Tone
The project was based on the Mogami-class ships. To improve the ship's protection, the fifth...
Vrijheid
A post-war version of the Dutch Eendracht-class light cruiser design with an alternative main...
Wichita
The design for this ship was based on Brooklyn-class cruisers in terms of their layout but...
Wiesbaden
A hypothetical project of a light cruiser with powerful AA and torpedo armament designed for...
Wukong
Wukong is the Monkey King and one of the main mythological characters in Chinese culture. He is...
ARP Ashigara
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 3rd Myōkō-class cruiser,...
ARP Haguro
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 4th Myōkō-class cruiser,...
ARP Myōkō
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
ARP Nachi
A Fleet of Fog heavy cruiser modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 2nd Myōkō-class cruiser,...
Algérie
After the construction of two series of Duquesne- and Suffren-class cruisers, built under the...
Asturias
Ties between the Fascist regime in Italy and the Francoists strengthened after the latter...
Atlanta
A light cruiser specifically designed for operations alongside destroyers. During World War II,...
Atlanta B
A light cruiser specifically designed for operations alongside destroyers. During World War II,...
Belfast
HMS Belfast, the second Edinburgh-class ship, was laid down in 1936 and commissioned in 1939. At...
Boise
A Brooklyn-class light cruiser. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the ship was on a patrol...
Chumphon
American Atlanta-class ships were designed as destroyer flotilla leaders but were mainly used as...
Coronel Bolognesi
HMS Ceylon, a Crown Colony-class cruiser, served in the Pacific and Indian Oceans at the end of...
Duca degli Abruzzi
Cruiser projects of the 1932–1933 program had a tendency to increase armor protection, which...
Eastern Dragon
In Chinese tradition, dragons are usually depicted as long, scale-covered, snake-like creatures...
Eendracht
Cruiser Kijkduin was renamed Eendracht while still on the stocks, and her armament composition...
Fiji
The British Navy required light cruisers, so the Town class was realigned. The lead cruiser of...
Flint
USS Flint belonged to the improved Atlanta subclass, also known as the Oakland class. During...
Francesco Ferruccio
The project of a "long-range light cruiser" was developed as part of a program that involved the...
Gambia
A Fiji-class light cruiser, the construction of which commenced shortly before the outbreak of...
Gorizia
Gorizia, a Zara-class cruiser, was laid down in 1930. During the Spanish Civil War, she...
Helena
The Brooklyn-class design, based on the hull of cruiser New Orleans, was developed taking into...
Indianapolis
USS Indianapolis, the second cruiser of the Portland class, participated in the New Guinea...
Lazo
The development of Project 68 began in 1937 as part of a plan to build light cruisers of a new...
Lazo B
The development of Project 68 began in 1937 as part of a plan to build light cruisers of a new...
Maya
Takao-class cruiser. She participated in the Sino-Japanese War, escorting transport ships....
Myōkō
Instead of increasing the number of torpedo launchers for the new cruisers, the number of main...
München
The German plan provided for the presence of thirteen light cruisers, six of which had already...
München B
The German plan provided for the presence of thirteen light cruisers, six of which had already...
New Orleans
Compared to her predecessor, the new cruiser had a shorter hull because of the linear...
Nueve de Julio
Brooklyn-class light cruiser USS Boise was laid down in 1935 at the Newport News shipyard. The...
Omono
The development of the Ōyodo-class cruisers—the flagships of submarine squadrons—into...
River Gambra
A light cruiser with a tight layout, driven by the goal of maximizing armament within a limited...
Shchors
The Major Naval Shipbuilding Program of 1936 included the development of squadron escort...
Southern Dragon
In Chinese tradition, dragons are usually depicted as long, scale-covered, snake-like creatures...
Surrey
A cruiser named Surrey was initially meant to be the third Norfolk-class ship. But it was the...
Tokachi
The armament of the scout cruisers originally included six 140 mm twin-gun turrets, but the...
Toulon
After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, France had the right to build new battleships...
Uganda
Fiji-class light cruisers were built in Great Britain in two groups. The project combined good...
Weimar
German engineers considered several weaponry options when developing 10,000-ton ships. The...
Yorck
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was permitted to retain six aging...
Zara
Under the 1928–1929 program, four cruisers of the new Zara class featuring a 150 mm armor belt...
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Graf Spee differed from other Deutschland-class "pocket battleships" with her larger...
Admiral Makarov
Light cruiser Nürnberg, a further development of the Königsberg- and Leipzig-class cruisers, was...
Almirante Cochrane
In 1937, the Chilean government planned to order the construction of a cruiser at British or...
Aoba
The Aoba-class cruisers were originally intended to be identical to the Furutaka class, but a...
Baleares
In 1926, Spain ordered two modern "Washington Treaty" cruisers. Vickers-Armstrong created a...
Budyonny
In 1940, a light cruiser design was commissioned. Its main purpose was to support destroyers in...
Canarias
After signing the Washington Naval Treaty, which specified the maximum characteristics of...
Dallas
In order to meet the restrictions on the total displacement of light cruisers imposed by the...
De Grasse
A cruiser based on the improved design of the La Galissonnière class. The ship had a different...
Devonshire
As part of the development of cruisers for protecting trade routes, five projects were presented...
Dido
After the signing of the London Treaty, a discussion started about small naval cruisers....
Duca d'Aosta
Ships of the 1931–1933 program were built by the Montecuccoli design, which was modified to...
Dupleix
Suffren-class heavy cruiser. An order was given to reinforce the armor to protect her from...
Elli
Cruiser Eugenio di Savoia was laid down at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa in July 1933 and...
Gokase
Per the navy replenishment program, plans were made to build cruisers to lead the...
HSF Admiral Graf Spee
Deutschland-class training ship of the Wilhelmshaven Marine High School. In the anime, the...
Hobart
Originally named Apollo, this warship was one of three ships constructed in Britain following...
Huanghe
After Chinese cruiser Chungking was sunk by Kuomintang aircraft, the People's Republic of...
Kijkduin
In 1935, the government of the Netherlands approved the decision to build "superlight" cruisers....
La Galissonnière
After the signing of the London Naval Treaty, France began developing a new class of cruisers....
Leander
In 1928, the development of a reconnaissance cruiser that should act in tandem with a fleet...
Leipzig
In contrast to the preceding ships, cruiser Leipzig underwent notable modifications to her power...
London
HMS London, the lead ship in the second series of County-class cruisers, was laid down in 1926...
Molotov
In 1937, the new Project 26bis received a modified superstructure, improved armor, and a new...
Montcalm
As one of six light cruisers of the La Galissonnière class, Montcalm stood as the most modern...
Mysore
HMS Nigeria, a Fiji-class cruiser, was commissioned in 1940. A year later, she was made flagship...
Nürnberg
Nürnberg differed from her predecessors by having more advanced superstructures and certain...
Orion '44
A Leander-class light cruiser geared to function as a scout within a squadron, yet equally adept...
Pensacola
The first cruisers of the U.S. Navy built in accordance with the guidelines outlined by the...
Perth
One of three ships built for the Royal Navy under the program of enhanced versions of...
Rahmat
British Dido-class cruisers were built primarily to provide anti-aircraft defenses for task...
Trento
After World War I, the Italian armored cruisers, built at the beginning of the 20th century,...
Agano
The design of the Agano-class cruisers began in the second half of the 1930s. Their main purpose...
Celebes
The third Java-class cruiser was laid down in Schiedam in June 1917, and she should have become...
Chungking
HMS Aurora, a British Arethusa-class light cruiser, was built in Portsmouth between 1935...
Delhi
Ships of the Leander class belonged to a new generation of light cruisers. They significantly...
Emerald
Project E, a further development of the British light cruisers, incorporated enhanced engine...
Exeter
The programs of 1926 and 1927 included plans for building four 10,000-ton cruisers, but due to...
Furutaka
The design of a new scout cruiser was based on the British Hawkins-class cruisers, and it...
Galicia
With the establishment of the Republic, cruiser Príncipe Alfonso was renamed Libertad. When the...
Genova
In 1923, Italy began working on the design of a "Washington cruiser" that had a displacement of...
Hawkins
To take on the German light cruiser ocean raiders, a counter-raider project based on the...
Kirov
After the dual impact of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Navy needed cruisers....
Kotovsky
A Soviet commission was sent to Italy in 1932 to find a prototype for a Soviet cruiser. A choice...
Krasny Krym
During World War II, Krasny Krym (former cruiser Svetlana, commissioned in 1928) participated in...
Königsberg
In 1926, light cruisers were laid down according to an improved design. The new ship had a...
La Argentina
Cruiser La Argentina was built according to the 1926 program in Great Britain. The British...
Marblehead
USS Marblehead, an Omaha-class cruiser, met the start of World War II as part of the Asiatic...
Marblehead Lima
A high-speed scout cruiser with powerful torpedoes and artillery. Carried aircraft handling...
Mikoyan
In the summer of 1932, a Soviet commission was sent to Italy as part of naval cooperation to...
Murmansk
USS Milwaukee (CL-5), the second of ten Omaha-class cruisers, was laid down in 1918. She served...
Omaha
The previous design of the scout cruiser was poorly armed, so it was subjected to revision. Two...
Raimondo Montecuccoli
After the construction of four Giussano-class cruisers, the Italian Navy ordered two more with...
Rattlehead
The Immortal Vic Rattlehead can be seen clutching a radiant green crystal of cosmic nature,...
Yahagi
Agano-class cruiser. Yahagi participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 as the...
Émile Bertin
In 1928, the French Naval Headquarters began developing cruisers to protect sea lanes. The...
Alberto di Giussano
In response to the French construction of modern light cruisers and large destroyers, the...
Almirante Cervera
In 1922, a project was created with the assistance of the British company Armstrong to build new...
Córdoba
In 1933, after the purchase of two Novik-class destroyers from Estonia, the superiority of the...
Danae
By 1916, a project for an upgraded Ceres had been developed: The dimensions of the ship...
De Ruyter
Based on the results of the work of a special commission, the development of a new cruiser began...
Duguay-Trouin
After researching the German designs and receiving information on the characteristics of the...
Dunedin
One of the Danae-class cruisers, representing an advancement in the later C-class series of...
Iwaki Alpha
In the late 1910s, according to the plans for the development of the Japanese Navy, six cruisers...
Karlsruhe
The next step in the development of German light cruisers was the introduction of an armor belt....
Kuma
After learning about the characteristics of the Omaha-class ships, the Japanese engineers...
Phoenix
With the outbreak of World War I, the U.S. found itself in need of a stronger navy. The new...
Svietlana
After having suffered losses during the Russo-Japanese War in 1907, the development of a new...
Yūbari
An experimental light cruiser based on an idea to create a fast warship carrying the most...
AL Avrora
Avrora is a light Pallada-class cruiser and one of the oldest ships of the Northern Parliament....
Aurora
The third ship of the Diana-class protected cruisers was laid down in 1896 at the New Admiralty...
Bogatyr
The project of a scout cruiser surpassing Japanese armored cruisers in terms of speed and...
Caledon
In 1911, requirements for a "fleet scout" that could maintain high speed in the North Sea took...
Caradoc
Built in Great Britain in 1916 and 1917, the Caledon-class cruisers were known for their compact...
Charleston
USS Charleston, the third cruiser of the St. Louis class, served in the Far East until 1910. In...
Friant
Work on a "squadron reconnaissance" project began in France back in 1909. The ship was ordered...
Java
In 1915, the Netherlands adopted a law on fleet reinforcement to protect their colonial...
Katori
A training cruiser with a hybrid propulsion system and wide-ranging armament: 140 mm main...
Kolberg
The entire new series of German light cruisers was equipped with turbines. The Kolberg class...
Navarra
Named after Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the wife of the reigning king of Spain at the time,...
Ning Hai
In 1931, the Japanese Harima shipbuilding company laid down two mini-cruisers—Ning Hai and...
Oleg
The fourth of the Bogatyr-class cruisers was laid down in 1902 and entered service two years...
St. Louis
Following the end of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Congress enacted several laws to bolster...
Taranto
After World War I, the fleets of Germany and Austria-Hungary were shared between the winning...
Tenryū
The Tenryū-class cruisers were intended to be destroyer leaders and were supposed to cooperate...
Varyag
The ship was built under the squadron scout cruiser program for the Pacific Fleet. After being...
Vicente Guerrero
In 1938, after the decommissioning of battleship Anáhuac—the former Brazilian Deodoro—Mexico...
Albany
After the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 and the mutinies of the 1890s, Brazil aimed to...
Almirante Abreu
At the end of the 19th century, Brazil ordered a series of armored cruisers from Armstrong to...
Almirante Barroso
In an attempt to rebuild and reinforce its fleet after the revolution of 1889 and the mutinies...
Chester
At the beginning of the 20th century, three "scout cruisers" with a high freeboard were built....
Chikuma
After the war against Russia, Japan started developing light cruisers. Cruiser Tone (laid down...
Diana
A tender for the design of an armored cruiser-destroyer for escorting merchant ships was...
Diana Lima
Being a protected cruiser, whose design was typical between the end of the 19th and the...
Dresden
After building small ships equipped with steam engines, Germany began producing warships...
Emden
SMS Emden, the second Dresden-class cruiser, met the outbreak of World War I in the Far East as...
Gelderland
This Holland-class protected cruiser was laid down in Schiedam in November 1897. After her...
Jurien de la Gravière
The ship became the last French armored cruiser. After joining the ranks, Jurien de la Gravière...
Méndez Núñez
Ships Blas de Lezo and Méndez Núñez were laid down in 1917, showing considerable British design...
Nino Bixio
At the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of a fast scout cruiser was popular in many...
Novik
A competition was announced in 1898 to design a scout cruiser for the Pacific Ocean fleet....
Port Jackson
One of the Town-class cruisers built in the 1910s in Britain and Australia. With a focus on...
Weymouth
Up until the late 1910s, the British Navy built cruisers that weren't designed to act as...
Black Swan
In the 1930s, several series of modern sloops were built in the United Kingdom to replace the...
Bougainville
The Bougainville sloops in the French Navy were classified as "colonial aviso" and were intended...
Chengan
Taking advantage of a loophole in the London Naval Treaty that placed no restrictions on the...
Erie
Based on the restrictions of the London Naval Treaty, American designers conceptualized a...
Eritrea
Eritrea, a sloop, was developed between 1932 and 1934 for service in African colonies. To...
Gryf
In the early 1930s, the Polish Navy succumbed to the trend of building large minelayers capable...
Hashidate
A small gunboat designed for coastal operations. This gunboat was well-armed for her dimensions,...
Hermelin
German engineers designed a "colonial gunboat" project under an order from the Netherlands. The...
Hércules
British River-class frigates, designed to escort convoys in the North Atlantic, were sold off...
Júpiter
In the 1930s, Spain began building new modern minelayers, all named after Roman gods. The...
Orlan
Five drafts of a small destroyer that could be mass-produced were proposed in 1941. It was...
Sutlej
Designed and built in Great Britain, the Black Swan-class sloops were primarily purposed for...
Van Kinsbergen
Gunboat Van Kinsbergen was intended for training to operate state-of-the-art fire control...
Destroyers
Dalarna
According to the plans for the development of the Swedish Navy, the main tactical unit was to be...
Joshua Humphreys
While designing the Allen M. Sumner-class and Gearing-class destroyers, options for equipping...
Kunming
A fast and well-armed destroyer, she is essentially an enlarged variant of the U.S. Somers-class...
Yamagiri
The initial project of the Shimakaze-class destroyers involved the use of sextuple- or...
Z-57
A large destroyer featuring powerful artillery, Type 1945 was one of the final unreleased...
Zorkiy
After the end of World War II, the navy's leadership attempted to resume the development of an...
AL Shimakaze
The only destroyer of her class in service to the Sakura Empire. Not only does she have high...
Alberico da Barbiano
One of the Alberto di Giussano-class cruisers, planned to be converted into fast anti-aircraft...
Attilio Regolo
The Capitani Romani class was designed as a response to the French Mogador class destroyers. The...
Cassard
Cassard was a T-47-class destroyer in the first series of French destroyers built after the war....
Daring
The last, the largest, and the most advanced torpedo-carrying destroyers of the U.K. Navy,...
Delny
The Soviet Union planned to build a leader series to Project 20I (also known as Tashkent)....
Druid
After giving the green light to the construction of Daring-class ships, the Admiralty soon came...
Elbing
Type 1938 served as the basis for the scout cruiser project ("Spähkreuzer" in German). The ship...
Forrest Sherman
After the construction of the large and expensive Mitscher class of destroyers, the next series...
Gdańsk
Poland aimed to achieve naval superiority through quality rather than quantity, and they...
Gearing
The Fletcher-class destroyers didn't quite meet the requirements of the U.S. Navy: The ships'...
Georg Hoffmann
A large destroyer armed with 150 mm artillery, she is remarkably similar to light cruisers in...
Georg Hoffmann Golden
A large destroyer armed with 150 mm artillery, she is remarkably similar to light cruisers in...
Grozovoi
The operational requirements for a large ocean-going destroyer design that was intended to be a...
Halland
The construction of the second pair of Öland-class ships was canceled, and in 1951, destroyers...
Harugumo
A further development of Japanese destroyers aimed at enhancing their combat capabilities based...
Hayate
A hypothetical design for a Shimakaze-class destroyer armed with a 127 mm dual-purpose twin-gun...
Hull
A hypothetical variant for the complete rearmament of USS Hull, a Forrest Sherman-class...
Khabarovsk
In the second half of the 1930s, the Soviet government was contemplating building an armored...
Kléber
After the order was made for the two leaders of the Mogador class, the new ships of this type...
Kléber CLR
After the order was made for the two leaders of the Mogador class, the new ships of this type...
Kléber TE
A tournament edition clone of a ship for the purpose of testing new mechanics and ship contents...
La Pampa
A Battle-class destroyer built in the 1940s according to a project that took into account the...
Lübeck
A project for a so-called "reconnaissance cruiser" and the culmination of efforts to create a...
Lüshun
From 1949 through 1956, a scientific and technical support program was in effect between the...
Marceau
In 1939, amid rising worldwide tensions, it was decided to continue building the leaders and...
Ragnar
The main tactical unit of the Swedish fleet was to be a squadron of several destroyers....
Shimakaze
An experimental fast "cruiser destroyer" boasting a heavy-duty power plant, reinforced AA...
Småland
Småland, the second Halland-class destroyer, was laid down in Gothenburg at the Eriksberg...
Somers
Somers-class lead destroyers were not equipped with a torpedo-reloading system, which made it...
Södermanland
The largest and most powerful destroyers in the Swedish Navy. Their main advantages are their...
Tromp
The year 1931 saw the start of design work on a lead destroyer for the Dutch Navy. It was...
Vampire II
After World War II, Australia started building four destroyers designed on the basis of the most...
Yueyang
USS Haynsworth, an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was laid down in the dockyards of the...
Z-42
Z-42 was ordered in July 1939 as a Type 1936B ship, and she was later reordered as a Type...
Z-52
In the early 1940s, the construction of destroyers running on diesel fuel began. Type 1942...
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Álvaro de Bazán
During the Civil War, the Spanish Navy lost many ships; for this reason, as soon as the war...
Adriatico
Between 1934 and 1936, Italy developed a destroyer leader under a Soviet order. This led to the...
Benham
Benham-class ships repeated the design of their predecessors while featuring more powerful...
Black
USS Black, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was involved in patrol operations in the central part of...
Black B
USS Black, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was involved in patrol operations in the central part of...
Chung Mu
Fletcher-class ship USS Erben was built at the shipyard of Bath Iron Works. She participated in...
Felix Schultz
The development of the ocean destroyer concept resulted in Project 1938. Of several options, the...
Fletcher
The outbreak of World War II led to the abolition of restrictions on the construction of new...
Frank Friday
A large, swift, and well-armed destroyer. With the onset of World War II, naval armament...
Friesland
Despite the heavy losses sustained by the Dutch Navy during World War II and colonial revolts in...
Groningen
The second Friesland-class destroyer was laid down at the Amsterdam shipyard in February 1952...
Halford
USS Halford, a Fletcher-class destroyer, received a catapult for a float plane in place of her...
Johnston
A Fletcher-class destroyer—one of the most extensively produced destroyers in the U.S. Navy....
Jutland
The Battle-class ships evolved as a result of reflections on the experience of using destroyers...
Jäger
In 1917, Austria-Hungary began working on a project to build a destroyer leader. A total of...
Kitakaze
After experimental destroyer Shimakaze was laid down in 1941, notable for her speed and...
Lambros Katsonis
In the late 1920s, there was a dispute among the leaders of the Greek Navy about whether to...
Minegumo
An Asashio-class destroyer. Ten ships in this series were built between 1935 and 1939, following...
Mogador
The new destroyers were supposed to accompany the Dunkerque-class battlecruisers and oppose the...
Nanning
A hypothetical design of a large destroyer built in Japan during World War II. After the end of...
Neustrashimy
Adopted in 1945, a 10-year military shipbuilding program envisaged building 226 "standard"...
Orage
A variant of the first post-war destroyer project of the French Navy with new dual-purpose...
Paolo Emilio
After the beginning of naval cooperation between Italy and the U.S.S.R., the Ansaldo company...
STAR Kitakaze
A ship captured by a space crystal. Created by a celestial body to communicate with humans,...
Somme
The Battle-class destroyers, featuring enhanced AA defenses, were designed drawing on lessons...
Tashkent
In the early 1930s, the Soviet Navy's authorities placed an order for a destroyer leader to be...
Udaloi
The Soviet Navy development program involved building large destroyers with ocean-going...
Velos
USS Charrette, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was built in Boston. The ship fought in the Pacific,...
Yūgumo
The improved Kagerō class was built under the fleet expansion programs of 1939 and 1941. It...
Z-44
A Type 1936B destroyer Z-44 was laid down in 1942. Construction progressed slowly since the...
Z-46
The Type 1936C ships were derived from the hull of a Type 1936A destroyer but featured upgraded...
ZF-6
After conquering France in 1940, the German Navy captured a small number of unfinished French...
ZF-6 Golden
After conquering France in 1940, the German Navy captured a small number of unfinished French...
Östergötland
Built between 1951 and 1956, the Halland-class destroyers proved to be too large and expensive....
AL Yukikaze
Famously known as the "Fortune Ship" for her achievements in the Great War. She's arrogant and...
Akizuki
Akizuki-class destroyers were designed as air defense ships to escort swift carrier formations....
Asashio
The design of the Asashio-class destroyers underwent substantial changes compared to the...
Asashio B
The design of the Asashio-class destroyers underwent substantial changes compared to the...
Benson
The new destroyers were planned as an improved Sims class with an échelon arrangement of the...
Błyskawica '44
A large destroyer with powerful armament, built at the British shipyard in Cowes, ORP Błyskawica...
Cossack
The Tribal class was originally conceived as a series of destroyers with greater emphasis on...
Cossack B
The Tribal class was originally conceived as a series of destroyers with greater emphasis on...
Eskimo
HMS Eskimo, a Tribal-class destroyer, was commissioned in 1938. Her service in World War II was...
Fenyang
Yoizuki, an Akizuki-class destroyer, was built at the Uraga Docks. She participated in the war...
Gustav-Julius Maerker
The Type 1937 destroyer was designed as a ship with a large action range. These ships were meant...
HSF Harekaze
Kagerō-class training ship of the Yokosuka Girls' Marine High School. She is operated by the...
HSF Harekaze II
Kagerō-class nautical training ship that was initially going to be named Okikaze. She is part of...
Hsienyang
The Gleaves-class USS Rodman was laid down at the shipyards of the Federal Shipbuilding Company...
Kagerō
Japan avoided the limitations on ship tonnage by declining to sign the Second London Naval...
Kidd
A Fletcher-class destroyer, USS Kidd sailed across New York Harbor on her maiden voyage with the...
Kiev
The performance specifications for a Project 48 leader, derived from Project 1 and Project 38,...
L'Aventurier
This destroyer is essentially an enlarged version of Le Hardi, featuring upgraded anti-aircraft...
Le Fantasque
Leaders of the Le Fantasque class were developed to counter the Italian scout cruisers—they...
Le Terrible
Le Terrible, a Le Fantasque-class destroyer, escorted convoys and scouted for German raiders in...
Lightning
In comparison with her predecessors, the L-class ships turned out to be almost 200 tons heavier....
Loyang
USS Benson, the lead ship of her class, was built at the Fore River Shipyard. In 1940 and 1941,...
Loyang B
A destroyer specifically built for the U.S. Navy, boasting powerful AA guns and a high speed....
Ognevoi
In 1937, the Committee for Defense authorized the commencement of design work for a new...
Orkan
M-class destroyer HMS Myrmidon was laid down at the Fairfield shipyard in Scotland in...
Provorny
One of the Type 1936A destroyers—unusual ships equipped with "cruiser-like" main battery guns....
Ship Smasha
Orks do not navigate the Warp. They need no Astronomican like pesky Umiez. Gork and Mork guide...
Siliwangi
Volevoy, a Project 30-bis destroyer, was built at Plant No. 199—named after Lenin Komsomol, in...
Split
In the 1930s, by order of the Yugoslav Navy, French specialists designed a large destroyer based...
Vittorio Cuniberti
After the Maestrale-class destroyers entered service, the development of an improved design...
Z-23
The Type 1934 ships were followed by an improved Type 1936. The 1936A modification featured an...
Z-35
In the summer of 1939, 12 Type 1936B destroyers were ordered. However, with the outbreak of...
Zhu Que
Zhu Que (the Vermilion Bird) is one of the Four Symbols in ancient Chinese mythology. It...
Öland
When choosing the best design for a new destroyer, Swedish experts studied foreign ships. They...
Akatsuki
The third batch of "special type" destroyers featured a slightly shorter hull and reduced...
Błyskawica
According to the plans for Operation Peking, ORP Błyskawica and her sister ship ORP Grom broke...
FR25
On November 27, 1942, an order was given to sink the remaining ships in Toulon to prevent them...
Gadjah Mada
The N-class destroyer HMS Nonpareil was laid down at Dumbarton in May 1940, commissioned in...
Grom
Grom and Błyskawica entered service in 1937, becoming the strongest European destroyers of their...
Haida
With the outbreak of World War II, Canada started planning to enhance its fleet. The decision...
Huron
The third of eight Canadian Tribal-class destroyers, HMCS Huron, named after one of the North...
Jervis
In the mid-1930s, the British Navy needed destroyers that could rival foreign ships of the same...
Jupiter '42
A J-class ship, distinct from the earlier generation of "standard" destroyers, featuring a novel...
Leberecht Maass
In the competition for a new destroyer in 1934, the design submitted by Deutsche Werke...
Leningrad
In 1930, the Soviet government reinstated funding for building ocean-going ships and intended to...
Le Hardi
Le Hardi-class destroyers were designed for joint operations with the new Dunkerque-class...
Luca Tarigo
The Navigatori-class destroyer leaders were ordered in 1926 as a response to the French Jaguar...
Mahan
The design of the new destroyer was supposed to increase the number of torpedo launchers to...
Minsk
While the Project 1 (Leningrad-class) leaders were being built, many adjustments were made to...
Shiratsuyu
The Shiratsuyu-class destroyers were an upgraded version of the Hatsuharu class. They featured a...
Sims
The new destroyer design was similar to the Mahan class, but she was larger than her...
Sims B
The new destroyer design was similar to the Mahan class, but she was larger than her...
Skåne
Concurrently with the construction of the Visby-class destroyers, Swedish shipbuilders planned...
Stord '43
Eight S-class destroyers, ordered by the British Admiralty under the War Emergency Program,...
Tashkent '39
Destroyer flotilla leader Tashkent was designed and built at the Odero-Terni-Orlando shipyard...
Vauquelin
For the first time in the French Navy, welding was widely used in the construction of the...
Yūdachi
Yūdachi, a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer, was laid down in October 1934 and entered service in...
Z-31
In 1940 and 1941, several Type 1936B destroyers were laid down again. The new Type 1936A(Mob)...
Z-39
Type 1936A destroyer Z-39 entered service in 1943, but due to construction faults, she was not...
Aigle
The second series of "four-stack" ships differed little from their predecessors—ships of the...
Anshan
Rekordny, a Project 7 destroyer, was laid down in September 1936 in the city of Mykolaiv. Later,...
Aviere
The Soldati class was the most numerous class of Italian destroyers. During construction, they...
Duchaffault
One of the Soldati-class destroyers built in Italy in the 1930s and 40s, formerly known as...
Ernst Gaede
In 1933, the construction of flotilla destroyers began, and it was planned for them to surpass...
Farragut
After the signing of the London Naval Treaty, development began on a new ship class. It was...
Fubuki
The Washington Naval Treaty restricted the tonnage of battleships and aircraft carriers, leaving...
Fushun
Project 7 destroyer Rezkij was initially laid down at Plant No. 198 in Mykolaiv, then sent by...
Gallant
During the Spanish Civil War, HMS Gallant—a G-class destroyer—spent considerable time in Spanish...
Gnevny
In the summer of 1932, a Soviet Navy delegation visited Italy to see the latest Maestrale-class...
Guépard
The Guépard leader series received a number of improvements over Jaguar. The main battery...
Hatsuharu
A streamlined version of the Fubuki-class destroyer that maintains combat effectiveness...
Icarus
Class I destroyers differed from their predecessors in having quintuple-tube torpedo launchers...
Juruá
In 1939, Brazil ordered from Great Britain a series of six modern H-class destroyers with...
Karl von Schönberg
A large destroyer design developed by the shipbuilding company Vulcan in 1933 to be used as the...
Leone
The Leone class was based on the improved design of the Mirabello class. In particular, the new...
Monaghan
USS Monaghan, a Farragut-class destroyer, was the duty ship during the raid on Pearl Harbor, and...
Shinonome
Shinonome, a Fubuki-class destroyer, was laid down in August 1926 and assigned to Destroyer...
Shinonome B
Shinonome, a Fubuki-class destroyer, was laid down in August 1926 and assigned to Destroyer...
Stord
With the outbreak of World War II, Great Britain started the mass construction of destroyers in...
T-61
Having captured the Netherlands, Germany took over the Dutch shipbuilding facilities. A series...
Västerås
In 1933 and 1934, the Polish Navy, planning to build a series of new destroyers, held a...
Acasta
The design of the A-class ships was intended to be a direct response to the experience...
Fūjin
A second group of 9 Minekaze-class destroyers, also known as the Kamikaze class, was built...
Gremyashchy
Gremyashchy, a Project 7 destroyer, was laid down at Shipyard No. 190 in Leningrad in July 1936....
Hill
One of the ship designs meant to combine the features of both a destroyer and a cruiser was the...
Jaguar
A further development of one of the designs presented after the end of World War I. The...
Jianwei
The navy development program adopted by the new government of China in the late 1920s, among...
Kalmar
A Visby-class destroyer built to reinforce the Swedish Navy during World War II. Commissioned in...
Kamikaze
A second group of 9 Minekaze-class destroyers, also known as the Kamikaze class, was built...
Kamikaze R
A second group of 9 Minekaze-class destroyers, also known as the Kamikaze class, was built...
L'Adroit
One of the fourteen French destroyers of the 1920s was the successor of the Bourrasque class....
Maestrale
The Maestrale class developed from the previous series of destroyers. The hull was enlarged,...
Minekaze
The "large" destroyers were conceived to escort Amagi-class battlecruisers. They featured an...
Muavenet
In 1938, Turkey ordered four ships of the latest I-class from Great Britain. Two of them,...
Mutsuki
The "enhanced Kamikaze"-class destroyers were the last Japanese destroyers to have a torpedo...
Nicholas
The construction of a large number of destroyers in the absence of cruisers raised a discussion...
Okhotnik
The Naval General Staff designed the Novik-class destroyers for use in tandem with...
Podvoisky
In 1928, a design of a 40-knot destroyer for the Black Sea Fleet was developed. General...
Siroco
Siroco, a Bourrasque-class destroyer, was assigned to the 5th Destroyer Division of the 1st...
T-22
In the 1920s, several series of destroyers were built for the Reichsmarine. The first of them...
Visby
As part of efforts to strengthen the Navy, in 1941, four ships of the Visby class—an improved...
Bourrasque
The destroyer project that was proposed after the end of World War I was not sufficiently armed...
Clemson
The Clemson class differed from its predecessor by its increased range and improved...
DD 214
Long thought to be a myth among American servicemembers, DD 214 prowls the seas, promising...
Isokaze
The four Isokaze-class ships built in 1916 and 1917 had the same general hull design as the...
Izyaslav
In the run-up to World War I, international tensions motivated the adoption of an intense...
Klas Horn
Planning to strengthen its fleet, the Swedish government began negotiations with the United...
Shenyang
Namikaze, a Minekaze-class destroyer, was built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal shipyards. She was...
Turbine
The Turbine-class destroyers were a further development of the previous Sauro class—more...
V-170
To replenish the destroyer fleet and make up for their losses, construction of the 1916...
Wakeful
Unlike the V-class ships, the W-class ships received triple-tube torpedo launchers and new main...
Campbeltown
USS Buchanan, a Wickes-class destroyer, was handed over to the Royal Navy in 1940. Following...
Derzki
A competition was announced in 1911 to design a 34-knot destroyer for the Black Sea Fleet. The...
Fusilier
The search for the optimal configuration for a new destroyer began with the construction of the...
G-101
In 1910 and 1912, Argentina ordered several modern destroyers, some of which were built at the...
Nazario Sauro
Destroyers of the Sauro class differed from the previous Sella class by having an improved...
Phra Ruang
The R-class destroyer HMS Radiant was built at the Thornycroft shipyards, launched in...
Romulus
Many participants of the Washington and London Naval Treaties tried to find loopholes in the...
Valkyrie
The V-class leaders actually determined the arrangement of the classic destroyer of the first...
Vampire
V-class destroyer flotilla leaders were initially supposed to carry armaments that differed from...
Wakatake
The last class of Japanese "small" destroyers comprised eight Wakatake-class ships built between...
Wickes
During World War I, the first destroyers of an improved design—flush-deck ships with greater...
Curtatone
The destroyers based on the improved design of the Palestro class were ordered back in 1915, but...
Enseigne Gabolde
Enseigne Gabolde, the third ship of the Enseigne Roux class, had a different propulsion unit—it...
Longjiang
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Qing Empire was actively restoring its Navy, which had...
Medea
The M-class destroyers were modeled based on the L-class ships but featured improved speed...
Sampson
The U.S. Navy needed ships that could operate together with the ocean line fleet anywhere in the...
Smith
The Smith class was the first American destroyer to be equipped with steam turbines and was the...
Storozhevoi
In May 1915, the Technical Bureau at the Main Shipbuilding Department received an order to...
Tachibana
A "small" destroyer designed on the basis of the Umikaze class and equipped with vertical...
Tachibana Lima
A "small" destroyer designed on the basis of the Umikaze class and equipped with vertical...
Tátra
By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the destroyers that were in active service...
Umikaze
The lessons from the Russo-Japanese War revealed that 300-ton destroyers were not suitable for...
V-25
A series of six 985-ton destroyers was ordered by China from Germany in 1913. With the outbreak...
Submarines
Archerfish
One of the Balao-class submarines, a large series of U.S. Navy submarines that played a...
Balao
The most abundant American submarines of World War II. They contributed substantially to the...
Balao 2
The most abundant American submarines of World War II. They contributed substantially to the...
Gato
The U.S. Navy High Command conceived that "fleet submarines" were to complement the sluggish...
K-1
A large submarine designed for joint operations with surface ships, long-distance raids, and...
Seal
A large mine-laying submarine, one of six in the Grampus class. From the earliest days of World...
Thrasher
The Royal Navy's T-class submarines were designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R...
U-2501
The first project for submarines designed specifically to stay most of the time underwater was...
U-4501
In October 1943, Walterwerke submitted a proposal to the Kriegsmarine for a submarine featuring...
Alliance
The Amphion-class submarines were designed for use in the Pacific. In contrast to their...
I-56
The second Otsu-Gata Type B3 submarine was commissioned in June 1944. I-56 took part in the...
L-20
The last group of L-class minelaying submarines (XIII-38 series). The boats' torpedo armament...
S-189
Project 613 is the most-produced series of Soviet Navy submarines and was built based on...
Salmon
The Salmon-class submarines were designed to be fast enough to participate in joint operations...
Sturdy
Unlike their prewar sisterships, the S-class submarines built during World War II stood out for...
U-190
The Type IX ocean submarines emerged as an evolution of the Type I and were developed for...
Cachalot
The Cachalot-class submarine project was influenced by the restrictions of the London Naval...
S-1
The Soviet Navy's first truly ocean-going submarines were based on a German design developed by...
U-69
The Type VII submarines became the most popular ships of their class in history—all in all, 703...
Undine
U-class submarines were conceived as unarmed targets for anti-submarine training, but after the...
Xin Zhong Guo 14
One of the ocean-going submarines of the S-class (Srednyaya, IX-bis series) whose initial design...