Tag: Navy
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HMS Eagle (1918) Aircraft Carrier
HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924.… Read more
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HMS Fiji (1940) British Light Cruiser
HMS Fiji (1940) British Light Cruiser HMS Fiji was the lead ship of the Fiji-class (also called the Crown Colony-class) of light cruisers, built for the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Second World War. Laid down in 1938 and commissioned in 1940, she was designed under the constraints of the London Naval… Read more
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Imperator Aleksandr II (1887) Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship
Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Imperator Aleksandr II The Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, built in the late nineteenth century during a period of rapid naval modernization. Laid down in 1885 at the New Admiralty Shipyard and commissioned in 1891, she was named after Tsar Alexander II of… Read more