Steam gun boats (SGBs) were small Royal Navy vessels built from 1940 to 1942 for Coastal Forces during the Second World War. The class consisted of nine... 14 KB (1,461 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024 |
sail only with difficulty. The gun that such boats carried could be quite heavy; a 32-pounder for instance. As such boats were cheap and quick to build... 18 KB (2,244 words) - 20:03, 19 April 2024 |
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated... 25 KB (3,501 words) - 18:13, 1 March 2024 |
Destroyer (redirect from Torpedo boat destroyer) superior enemy battle fleet using steam launches to fire torpedoes. Cheap, fast boats armed with torpedoes called torpedo boats were built and became a threat... 58 KB (7,051 words) - 18:26, 25 April 2024 |
Dreadnought (redirect from All-big-gun) revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme, with an unprecedented number of heavy-calibre guns, and steam turbine propulsion. As dreadnoughts... 95 KB (13,264 words) - 02:45, 29 April 2024 |
Ironclad warship (section Steam propulsion) first purpose-built steam battleship was the 90-gun Napoléon in 1850. Napoléon was armed as a conventional ship-of-the-line, but her steam engines could give... 79 KB (10,825 words) - 09:01, 29 April 2024 |
length. Seagoing patrol boats are typically around 30 m (100 ft) in length and usually carry a single medium caliber artillery gun as main armament, and... 42 KB (3,455 words) - 00:43, 16 April 2024 |
Naval ship (redirect from Boat crew) A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated from... 10 KB (1,032 words) - 03:04, 28 October 2023 |
Ballistic missile submarine (redirect from Missile boat (submarine)) a year behind the US with their first nuclear powered ballistic missile boat, the ill-fated K-19 of Project 658 (Hotel class), commissioned in November... 37 KB (3,904 words) - 12:52, 29 March 2024 |
needed] The French Navy introduced steam to the line of battle with the 90-gun Napoléon in 1850—the first true steam battleship. Napoléon was armed as... 91 KB (11,339 words) - 16:17, 23 April 2024 |
motor gun boat was a type of motor gunboat designed by Norman Hart of Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy. An intermediate design, twenty-four boats were... 10 KB (577 words) - 14:13, 8 March 2024 |
Motor gunboat (redirect from Motor gun boat) Second World War, which was armed with a mix of guns, in contrast to the physically similar motor torpedo boat (MTB), whose main offensive weapon were torpedoes... 14 KB (2,030 words) - 22:37, 21 February 2024 |
A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive... 86 KB (11,975 words) - 18:06, 17 April 2024 |
LCVP (United States) (redirect from Higgins boat) LCP(L). The LCP(L) had two machine gun positions at the bow. The LCP(L), also commonly called the "Higgins" boat, was supplied to the British (from October... 30 KB (3,176 words) - 22:05, 22 April 2024 |
: 87 Steam powered ship's boats saw a slow introduction to the Royal Navy from 1864. By 1877, three types were in use: steam launches, picket boats and... 21 KB (3,013 words) - 20:55, 31 October 2023 |
as scouts and fleet support vessels for battle fleets. The first small steam-powered cruisers were built for the British Royal Navy with HMS Mercury... 14 KB (1,762 words) - 11:34, 21 April 2024 |
Corvette (section Steam ships) modern roles that a corvette fulfills include coastal patrol craft, missile boat and fast attack craft. These corvettes are typically between 500 and 2,000... 35 KB (3,913 words) - 18:24, 18 April 2024 |
the Tone-class cruisers. These ships had their main armament of 4x twin 8" gun turrets placed forward of the superstructure, and an aircraft handling deck... 12 KB (1,484 words) - 23:09, 3 April 2024 |
by large steam engines, to maximize speed to intercept enemy torpedo boats before they could get close to the battleships. These torpedo boat destroyers... 7 KB (717 words) - 02:38, 20 April 2023 |
Ship of the line (section Steam power) developed the first purpose-built steam battleship with the 90-gun Napoléon in 1850. She is also considered the first true steam battleship, and the first screw... 30 KB (4,151 words) - 06:02, 15 April 2024 |