Category: Ships
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Danish Coastal Defense Ship HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899)
Danish Coastal Defense Ship HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899) HDMS Herluf Trolle (1899) was a Danish coastal defense ship. The first of her class of three ships (including Olfert Fischer and Peder Skram), she was launched on 2 September 1899 and commissioned on 7 June 1901. She had an uneventful career, as Denmark remained neutral throughout World War One. Herluf… Read more
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Russian Battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
Russian Battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya Commissioned on 18 October 1915, Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya, was the second of the three Imperatritsa Mariya-class dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy. Her two sister were Imperatritsa Mariya and Imperator Aleksandr III. During the First World War, she engaged the Turkish battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm (ex-German Goeben) once, but… Read more
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U.S. Crane Ship No. 1 Kearsarge
U.S. Crane Ship No. 1 Kearsarge The US Navy pre-dreadnought battleship USS Kearsarge BB-5 was decommissioned in May 1920, Kearsarge and converted into a crane ship. Originally given hull classification IX-16 on 17 July 1920, this was changed to AB-1 on 5 August. Her turrets, superstructure, and armor were removed, and replaced by a large… Read more