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| x Gato class submarine |
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USS Cobia | Submarine | 4 |
The United States Navy Gato class submarine design was the forerunner of all US World War II submarine designs. Named after the first vessel of this design, USS Gato (SS-212), the Gato class and its successors, Balao and Tench, formed the majority...
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| x E-Class Ultra Panamax Container Ship | Evelyn Maersk | Container ship | 5 | ||
| Eleonora Mærsk | 1 | ||||
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| Emma Mærsk | |||||
| x 600-Serie Adua class submarine | Italian submarine Scirè |
The 600-Serie Adua was the fourth subclass of the 600 class of coastal submarines of the Regia Marina that served during World War II.
There were 17 submarines in this class, almost all named after places in Ethiopia which had been a Italian colony...
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| x Benjamin Franklin class submarine |
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USS Henry L. Stimson |
The Benjamin Franklin class of submarine was an evolutionary development from the James Madison class of fleet ballistic missile submarine. Having quieter machinery and other improvements, they are considered a separate class. A subset of this class...
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| USS Simon Bolivar | |||||
| USS Lewis and Clark | |||||
| USS James K. Polk | |||||
| USS Mariano G. Vallejo | |||||
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| x British A class submarine |
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For the later A classes, see Amphion class submarine and Astute class submarine
The A class was the Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines. Thirteen were built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness between 1902 and 1905 as an improvement...
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| x A1 type submarine |
A1 Type submarines were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, equipped with an aircraft. The design was an adaptation of the J3 Type design, with the hangar opening forward of the conning tower.
Three boats were built, and...
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| x A2 type submarine |
The A2 Type submarine was a single class of submarine in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, comprising of 1 boat, I-12, equipped with an aircraft. The design was similar to the earlier A1 type submarine, except for weaker engines. The...
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| x AA-1 class submarine |
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USS T-1 |
The AA-1 class was a class of three experimental submarines of the United States Navy, built toward the end of World War I, between 1916 and 1919. The design was not a success and none of the submarines saw active service. However, the lessons...
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| USS T-3 | |||||
| x Type AM Japanese submarine |
The AM (A Modified) type submarine was a large seaplane-carrying submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with a hangar space for 2 aircraft. These giant submarines were originally of the A2 type, but their design was revised after construction...
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| x Agosta 90B class submarine |
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The Agosta class submarines are French diesel attack submarines (SSKs) used by Spain, Pakistan and formerly by France. The French Navy grouped this model of non-nuclear submarine in their most capable class as an océanique, meaning "ocean-going." A...
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| x Akula class submarine |
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Project 971 Щука-Б (Shchuka-B, 'Shchuka' meaning pike, NATO reporting name "Akula"), is a nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986. Akula ("shark") is also the Soviet designation of the ballistic missile...
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| x Albacora class submarine |
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Submarine |
The Albacora class is diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) developed for the Portuguese Navy based on the French Daphne class submarine.
In 1964, the Portuguese government ordered the construction of four of this class to the Dubigeòn-Normándie...
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| x Amphion class submarine |
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Submarine |
The Amphion class (also known as the "A" class and Acheron class) of diesel-electric submarines were ordered by the British Admiralty in 1943, upon the realisation that the new Pacific theatre of war following the attack on Pearl Harbor needed a new...
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| x Aréthuse class submarine |
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Submarine |
The Aréthuse class were submarines built for the French Navy in the 1950s. They were designed as hunter killer submarines for anti-submarine warfare and were referred to as Sous-marins de Chasse by the Marine Nationale. These submarines had advanced...
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| x Astute class submarine |
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HMS Astute |
The Astute-class submarines are the next-generation nuclear fleet submarines of the Royal Navy. When completed, the boats will set a new standard for the Royal Navy in terms of weapons load, improved communications facilities, stealth and comfort...
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| x B1 type submarine |
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Japanese submarine I-34 |
The B1 Type submarine (also known as the I-15 series) were the most numerous submarine class of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. In total 20 were made, starting with I-15, which gave the series their alternative name.
These submarines...
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| Japanese submarine I-30 | |||||
| Japanese submarine I-29 | |||||
| Japanese submarine I-26 | |||||
| Japanese submarine I-21 | |||||
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| x German Type IX submarine |
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Unterseeboot 180 | Submarine |
The Type IX U-boat was designed by Germany in 1935 and 1936 as a large ocean-going submarine for sustained operations far from the home support facilities. Type IX boats were briefly used for patrols off the eastern United States, in an attempt to...
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| Unterseeboot 549 | |||||
| Unterseeboot 42 | |||||
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| x I-400 class submarine |
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Japanese submarine I-401 | Submarine |
The Sen Toku I-400-class (伊四〇〇型潜水艦) submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the largest submarines of World War II, and remained the largest ever built prior to the development of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were...
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| x Kaiten |
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The Kaiten (Japanese: 回天, translated "the turn toward heaven," "Turning of the Heavens," was a torpedo modified as a suicide weapon, and used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.
Early designs allowed for the pilot to...
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| x Three-masted Frigate | |||||
| x German Type XVIIB submarine |
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U 1406 | Submarine |
The Type XVII U-boats were small coastal submarines which used Hellmuth Walter's high test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion and high submerged speeds.
In the early 1930s Hellmuth Walter had...
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| U-461 | |||||
| U-459 | |||||
| HMS Meteorite | |||||
| x Oscar class submarine |
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K-530 Belgorod | Cruise-missile submarine | 2 |
The Project 949 (Granit) and Project 949A (Antey) Soviet Navy/Russian Navy cruise missile submarines are known in the West by their NATO reporting names, the Oscar-I and Oscar-II classes, respectively.
Oscars were the largest guided missile...
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| K-150 Tomsk | Submarine | ||||
| K-148 Krasnodar | |||||
| K-119 Voronezh | |||||
| K-410 Smolensk | |||||
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| x Type 093 submarine |
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Submarine |
The Type 093 (NATO reporting name: Shang, Chinese designation: 09-III) is a nuclear powered attack submarine class deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. These boats are expected to replace the older Type 091 (NATO: Han class) SSNs...
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| x Han class submarine |
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ChangZheng 5 | Submarine | 1 |
The 4,500/5,500-ton Type 091 (US Department of Defense designation Han-class, Chinese designation 09-I) was the first nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) class deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy. The first general designer of the submarine...
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| ChangZheng 4 | |||||
| ChangZheng 3 | |||||
| ChangZheng 2 | |||||
| x Yuan class submarine |
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Submarine |
The Type 041 submarine (NATO code name Yuan class) is the newest class of diesel-electric submarine in the People's Liberation Army Navy (as of 2007). This class was first launched at Wuhan Shipyard and is the successor of the Type 039. The improved...
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| x Luhai class destroyer |
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Destroyer | 2 |
The Type 051B Luhai-class is a class of destroyer built by the People's Republic of China. It consists of only one ship, No.167 Shenzhen. When Shenzhen was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1998, it was then, the largest surface...
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| x Song class submarine |
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Submarine |
The Type 039 submarine (NATO code name Song class) is a class of diesel-electric submarines of the People's Liberation Army Navy. The class is the first to be fully developed within China and also the first Chinese submarine to use the modern...
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| x Sovremenny class destroyer |
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Osmotritelnyy | Destroyer |
The Sovremenny class destroyer is the principal anti-surface warship of the Russian Navy. Soviet designation for the class was Project 956 Sarych (Buzzard).
Its primary role is to attack enemy warships while also providing sea and air defense for...
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| Otlichnyy | |||||
| Otchayanny | |||||
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| x Lanzhou class destroyer |
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The Type 052C destroyer (NATO code name Luyang II class, often referred to as Lanzhou class after the lead ship name) is a class of destroyer built by the People's Republic of China. The destroyers feature an active phased array radar system with...
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| x Kilo class submarine |
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The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a military diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus (Turbot) in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated...
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| x Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate |
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USS Stark |
The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of frigates named after the American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie. Also known as the Perry or FFG-7 class, the warships were designed in the United States in the...
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| USS Halyburton | |||||
| USS Kauffman | |||||
| x Nevada class battleship |
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USS Oklahoma | Battleship |
The Nevada class battleships were the United States Navy's first battleship design equipped with triple gun turrets (the Colorado class would be the last to carry twin turrets, armed with dual-mounted 16" guns), as well as introducing the so-called ...
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| x Type 42 destroyer |
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HMS Liverpool | Destroyer |
The Type 42 or Sheffield class, are guided missile destroyers of the Royal Navy.
The class was designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area air-defence. In total fourteen vessels were constructed in three batches, five of which remain in service...
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| HMS Newcastle | |||||
| HMS Manchester | |||||
| HMS Birmingham | |||||
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| x Type 45 destroyer |
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HMS Dauntless | Destroyer |
The United Kingdom's Type 45 destroyer (also known as the D or Daring class) is a state-of-the-art air defence destroyer programme of the Royal Navy which will replace its Type 42 destroyers. The first ship in the class, HMS Daring, was launched on...
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| HMS Diamond | |||||
| HMS Dragon | |||||
| HMS Defender | |||||
| HMS Duncan | |||||
| x Nimitz class aircraft carrier |
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Aircraft carrier |
The Nimitz-class supercarriers, a line of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy, are the largest capital ships in the world, and are considered to be a hallmark in the superpower status of the United States of...
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| x Essex class aircraft carrier |
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Aircraft carrier |
Essex was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, which constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of heavy warships, with 24 ships built in both "short-hull" and "long-hull" versions. Thirty-two were originally ordered,...
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| x Invincible class aircraft carrier |
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HMS Ark Royal | Aircraft carrier |
The Invincible-class is a class of light aircraft carrier currently serving with the British Royal Navy. Of the three vessels of this class, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal are in operation, with HMS Invincible decommissioned from service and in...
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| x Bogue class escort carrier |
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HMS Nabob | Escort aircraft carrier |
The Bogue class were a group of escort aircraft carriers built in the United States for service with the US Navy and (under lend-lease) the Royal Navy during World War II.
The Bogue class escort carriers were based on the Maritime Commission's Type...
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| HMS Ruler | |||||
| HMS Puncher | |||||
| HMS Reaper | |||||
| HMS Tracker | |||||
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| x Casablanca class escort carrier |
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USS Kadashan Bay | Escort aircraft carrier |
The Casablanca class Escort aircraft carriers were the greatest number of not only escort carriers, but also any size aircraft carrier ever built to a like-design by any nation at any time. Fifty were laid down, launched and commissioned within the...
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| USS Tripoli | |||||
| USS Tulagi | |||||
| USS Steamer Bay | |||||
| x Colossus class aircraft carrier |
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HMS Theseus | Light aircraft carrier |
The Colossus class aircraft carriers were a class of Royal Navy light aircraft carriers. A total of sixteen ships were foreseen.
Two ships of the Colossus class (HMS Perseus and Pioneer) were tailored for aircraft maintenance rather than combat duty...
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| HMS Glory | |||||
| HMS Pioneer | |||||
| HMS Perseus | |||||
| HMS Warrior | |||||
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| x Independence class aircraft carrier |
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Light aircraft carrier |
The Independence class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II.
This class were a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's interest in Navy shipbuilding plans. In August...
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| x Majestic class aircraft carrier | HMAS Melbourne | Aircraft carrier |
The Majestic class was a ship class of six light fleet aircraft carriers constructed for the Royal Navy, but serving in the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and Indian Navy.
The Majestic class was conceived as a modified version of the...
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| HMAS Sydney | |||||
| HMCS Magnificent | |||||
| HMS Leviathan | |||||
| x Forrestal class aircraft carrier |
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USS Forrestal | Supercarrier |
The Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were a four-ship class designed and built for the United States Navy in the 1950s.
The Forrestal class was the first completed class of "supercarriers" of the Navy, so called because of their then...
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| USS Independence | |||||
| USS Ranger | |||||
| USS Saratoga | |||||
| x Midway class aircraft carrier |
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USS Coral Sea | Aircraft carrier |
The Midway class aircraft carrier was one of the longest lived carrier designs in history. First commissioned in late 1945, the lead ship of the class, USS Midway was not decommissioned until 1992, shortly after seeing service in the Gulf War.
The...
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| USS Midway | |||||
| USS Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||||
| x Lexington class aircraft carrier |
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Aircraft carrier |
The Lexington class aircraft carriers were the first operational aircraft carriers in the United States Navy (USS Langley was a strictly developmental ship which only served for a short time as an active fleet unit before being converted to a...
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| x Illustrious class aircraft carrier |
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HMS Indomitable | Aircraft carrier |
The Illustrious class was a class of aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that were some of the most important British warships in World War II (WWII). They were laid down in the late 1930s as part of the rearmament of British forces in response to...
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| HMS Illustrious | |||||
| HMS Formidable | |||||
| HMS Victorious | |||||
| x Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier | Aircraft carrier |
The Ticonderoga class aircraft carriers were thirteen aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. The class was an outgrowth of the closely-related ''Essex''-class of aircraft carriers, the Essex ships are often referred to as "short-hulls" while...
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| x Centaur class aircraft carrier |
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HMS Hermes | Light aircraft carrier |
The Centaur class of aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy was the last of the light fleet carrier designs started during the closing years of World War II.
Originally conceived as a class of eight vessels, with the end of hostilities, work on...
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| HMS Bulwark | |||||
| x Yorktown class aircraft carrier |
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Aircraft carrier |
The Yorktown class aircraft carriers consisted of three carriers built by the U.S. and completed shortly before World War II. They bore the brunt of early action in that war, and the sole survivor of the class was to become the most decorated ship...
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| x Kiev class aircraft carrier |
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Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev | Aircraft carrier |
The Kiev class carriers (also known as Project 1143 or as the Krechyet (Gyrfalcon) class) were the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union.
First laid down in 1970 the Kiev class was partially based on a design for a...
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| x Implacable class aircraft carrier | Aircraft carrier |
The Implacable class was a class of aircraft carrier employed by the Royal Navy in the second half of World War II. The class design was derived from the Illustrious class.
The Implacable-class ships were built some 30 months after the Illustrious...
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| x Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier |
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Supercarrier |
The Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the United States Navy were an incremental improvement on the Forrestal-class vessels. Four were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), America (CV-66) (1965...
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| x Clemenceau class aircraft carrier | Clemenceau | Aircraft carrier |
The Clemenceau class aircraft carriers are a pair of aircraft carriers which served in the French Navy from 1961 through 2000, and of which one currently remains in active service with the Brazilian Navy. Clemenceau was France's first successful...
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| x Unryu class aircraft carriers | Japanese aircraft carrier Katsuragi | Aircraft carrier |
The Unryū class aircraft carriers (雲龍型航空母艦, Unryū-gata kōkūbokan) were World War II Japanese aircraft carriers.
They were intended for strikes against US convoys. None ever deployed operationally. Three of the six ships in the class were incomplete...
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| x Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier |
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Aircraft carrier |
The Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers (also known as Project 1143.5, the Brezhnev class, or the Kreml class) has only one functional unit, Admiral Kuznetsov. The only other ship in her class, Varyag, was never commissioned and was sold to...
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| x Joffre class aircraft carrier | Aircraft carrier |
The Joffre class was a class of two aircraft carriers planned by France prior to World War II. Only one of the two vessels was begun, and neither was launched before the project was cancelled in 1940.
The Joffre was designed to give the French Navy...
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| x Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier | Aircraft carrier |
The first Royal Navy aircraft carrier to be named the Queen Elizabeth class were the proposed CVA-01 design from the 1960s, which would have been a two ship class, to have been called HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Duke of Edinburgh.
It has been...
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| x Glorious class aircraft carrier |
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HMS Furious | Light aircraft carrier |
The Glorious class aircraft carrier was one of the earliest classes of aircraft carrier to serve with the Royal Navy. Originally laid down as three 'large light cruisers', a cross between 'a light cruiser with 15-inch guns' and 'a battlecruiser with...
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| HMS Courageous | |||||
| x Hunt class destroyer |
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HMS Middleton |
The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in World War II, particularly on the British East Coast and Mediterranean convoys. They were named...
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| HMS Beaufort | |||||
| ORP Kujawiak | |||||
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| x MEKO 360 |
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The MEKO 360 is a class of five destroyers built in Germany for the Argentine and Nigerian Navies. The 360 was the first ship of the MEKO family of vessels built by Blohm und Voss.
A single vessel of the MEKO 360H1 variant was produced for the...
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