Category: Warships
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US Navy Escort Carrier USS Block Island CVE-21
US Navy Escort Carrier USS Block Island CVE-21 USS Block Island (CVE-21) was a Bogue-class escort carrier, commissioned into the U.S. Navy in March 1943 during a period of accelerated naval construction driven by anti-submarine warfare (ASW) requirements in the Atlantic. Escort carriers—converted from merchant or support hulls—were optimized for convoy defence and hunter-killer operations… Read more
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USS Illinois BB-7 US Navy Battleship
USS Illinois BB-7 USS Illinois (BB-7) was the lead ship of the Illinois-class pre-dreadnought battleships, authorized under the naval expansion program of the late 1890s. The class—Illinois, Alabama (BB-8), and Wisconsin (BB-9)—represented a transitional phase in U.S. capital ship architecture between the lighter Indiana-class and the more advanced pre-dreadnought types that directly preceded HMS Dreadnought… Read more
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HMS Argus I49 British Aircraft Carrier
HMS Argus HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began and became the first example of the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a full-length flight deck that allowed… Read more