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Chronicle of the Most Important Events of the Russian Navy History from the 9th Century up to 1917) Information of Swedish warships by Jan-Erik Karlsson; Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905 – Conway Maritime Press; Naval Wars in the Baltic 1553–1850 (1910) – R. C. Anderson; Naval Wars in the Levant 1559–1853 (1952) – R ...
Retvizan (Ретвизан) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War for the Imperial Russian Navy in the United States. She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company of Philadelphia , although the armament was made at the Obukhov works in Saint Petersburg and shipped to America for ...
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Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship. A ship of the line was a large, unarmored wooden sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics in the early 17th century and the end of the sailing battleship's heyday in the 1830s.
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, Russian: Советский Союз), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the battleships being built by Germany. [25]
British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleship and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-817-4. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Rev ed.). Annapolis, Maryland ...
The Borodino-class ships were based on the design of the French-built Tsesarevich, modified to suit Russian equipment and building practices.They were built under the 1898 program "for the needs of the Far East" to concentrate ten battleships in the Pacific. [1]
Navarin (Russian: Наварин) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East.