Few battleships during the Second World War were as specialized as the Iowa class battleships of the United States Navy. Unique designs built with an emphasis on speed, few of their dreadnought contemporaries could keep up with them. However, there was one notable...
This is a very brief overview of the Trafalgar class submarine, I haven’t gone into too much detail as this class of submarine remains in active service with the Royal Navy. Designed in the 1970’s as a refinement of the previous Swiftsure class submarines the...
This will be the first in a new series where we examine the armor schemes of various battleships throughout history. We will start off this series with the never-built American super dreadnoughts, the Montana class battleships. During the Montana class armor post we...
USS Texas is currently closed to the public while she undergoes restoration work, to find out more about her status and to donate to the ship please visit https://battleshiptexas.org/ This article was written with help from Travis Davis and Gabe Shuffield from the...
by Matthew Wright One of the received truths of naval history is the idea that HMS Dreadnought of 1905-06 was a game-changer, the ship that divided naval construction between ‘before’ and ‘after’.[1] And in many respects, that is true. She was the first all-big-gun...
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