Victory at Sea

Victory at Sea - Bearn In 1923 it was decided to convert an incomplete Normandie-class battleship to a carrier. Despite a refit in 1935, she was fa...

Victory at Sea German Admiral Graf Spee & Admiral Scheer The Deutschland-class of warships were relatively small, by battleship standards, but ...

Victory at Sea – Musashi    By a large margin, the Yamato and Musashi were the largest battleships ever built and were the product of advancing Jap...

Victory at Sea - USS Yorktown The Yorktown-class of aircraft carrier were built in a series of three. Of those, only the USS Enterprise survived th...

One of the most famous carriers of the war, the HMS Ark Royal received many battle honours in its service. The first enemy aircraft shot down by th...

Victory At Sea: USS Alaska      The Alaska-class fell midway between a heavy cruiser and a battleship, and the United States Navy considered these ...

Victory At Sea - Nagato  The flagship of the Japanese fleet during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the i was also the first battleship in the world to ...

Originally laid down as an Amagi-class battlecruiser, the stipulations of the Washington Treaty resulted in her conversion to an aircraft carrier. ...

Victory at Sea: Dewoitine D.520 flights   With the distinction of having fought on both sides of the war, this aircraft could conceivably fight amo...

Victory at Sea Japanese Kirishima  The Kongō-class, dating from 1912, was rebuilt between 1927 and 1931 and was thereafter re-rated as a battleship...

Victory at Sea French: Richelieu    There were to have been four ships of the Richlieu-class, with the first two laid down in 1935 and the second p...

Victory at Sea - Yahagi   Yahagi was the third of the Agano class of light cruiser, intended to be the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was co...

Victory at Sea - Mikuma 1942   The second of the four Mogami class heavy cruisers, Mikuma was completed in 1935 but quickly underwent refits to rep...

Victory at Sea - KongoKongō (金剛, “Indestructible Diamond”), named for the mountain, was the first battleship of her class, serving in both the firs...

The Littorio class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly a decade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain with...

Victory at Sea HMS Hood At one time, the HMS Hood was the largest and possibly most famous ship in the world, representing the supremacy of British...

Victory at Sea: Tirpitz   Sister ship to the Bismarck, the Tirpitz was 2,000 tons heavier and thus the heaviest warship to have ever been produced ...

Victory at Sea: Yamato    Yamato (大和, "Great Harmony") and her sister ship, Musashi, were constructed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. ...

Victory at Sea: HMS Warspite   HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Built during the early 1910s, she served in t...

Victory at Sea: Bismarck   Two Bismarck-class battleships were built for the Kriegsmarine. Bismarck was the first, named for the Chancellor (Otto v...

Victory at Sea: USS Idaho    USS Idaho, the third of three ships of the New Mexico-class of Battleship, was the fourth vessel to bear the name....

Victory at Sea Agano  The Agano-class was designed as a swift and lightly armoured replacement for the aging Tenryu, Kuma and Nagara classes. They ...

Victory at Sea French - Jeanne d'Arc   Built as a training cruiser for the French Marine Nationale the Jeanne d'Arc was both floating school and co...

Victory at Sea Loire-Nieuport LN401/LN411 flights With its distinctive gull-wing, the LN.401 was often confused by allied pilots for the Ju-87 Stuk...