Category: Warships
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Dupleix (1930) French Heavy Cruiser
Dupleix (1930) French Heavy Cruiser The French heavy cruiser Dupleix was the fourth and final member of the Suffren class of treaty cruisers built for the French Navy during the interwar period. Named after the eighteenth-century French colonial administrator Joseph François Dupleix, she represented the culmination of French efforts to improve cruiser protection while remaining… Read more
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HMS Inflexible (1876) Ironclad Battleship
HMS Inflexible (1876) Ironclad Battleship Laid down at Portsmouth in 1874 and launched two years later, HMS Inflexible (1876) was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Navy, Nathaniel Barnaby. Her design was in response to the perceived threat posed by powerful Italian ironclads then under construction, particularly the Duilio and Dandolo. Barnaby’s response was… Read more
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HTMS Thonburi
HTMS Thonburi HTMS Thonburi (เรือหลวงธนบุรี) was a coastal defence ship of the Royal Thai Navy, named after the historic Kingdom of Thonburi. Thonburi and her sister ship, HTMS Sri Ayudhya, were designed following the incorporation of the earlier Rattanakosindra-class gunboats into the Siamese Navy in the 1920s. Under Plaek Phibunsongkram’s command, the Siamese Navy began… Read more