Alternative Naval Design
Once upon a time, this entire series of articles under the general title “Super-Battleship or Impractical Madness” began with fantasies about the Japanese ...
Boroda
A heavy, salty fog crept slowly across the waters of Aniva Bay, obscuring the silhouettes of the ships like ghosts shrouded in gray gauze. On the ...
Danila Karpenko
Many navies around the world had “Rendel”-class gunboats in their fleets. These were small, unprotected vessels, but each was armed with a single, ...
Earlier, we explored an alternate world in which the Russian Empire, at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s, adopted 7-inch guns for its navy. For simplicity’s ...
Yalu, September 17, 1894. By midday, the Yellow Sea had all but vanished behind a veil of smoke. Ships were burning, a heavy pall of gunpowder fog hung low ...
Other articles in this series This is perhaps the most important and interesting article on the world of Russian 7-inch guns. It will focus on the mainstay ...
Contents: RISE! The furious Silver Hydra ascends! To the North, where the frozen ocean ends! We will guard the glaciers, we stand upon the frost, ...
Build and Divide. A Decent “Gangut.” Small Coastal Defense Battleships for the Russian Imperial Navy
I'm continuing the discussion on a more capable Russian Navy on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War. If we look at the keel-laying dates (or, ...
The “hybridization” of different schools of armament on a single chassis is always of great interest to historians (and a headache for those who ...
May 31, 1916. The North Sea greeted the fleets with a leaden-gray veil of fog and low-hanging clouds. In our story, this day marked the climax of the ...