To talk about them. There are three types (first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate). I'm not sure, but I think that it depends of the number of guns. For example, a first-rate ship has more or less 100 guns, as Victory. And also three gundecks, and about 850 of crew. And, wich was the most powerfull...
Hello! 21st October 2005 is the Bicentenary – the 200th anniversary – of the Battle of Trafalgar. On that day in 1805, a fleet of 27 British ships of the line, under the command of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, met and fought a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships off the coast of South...
Hi!! An interesting book about the history of battlecruisers, different classes, characteristics, proyects...but in spanish. Cruceros de Batalla (Battlecruisers), by Valentín Ruesga Herreros, ed by San Martín. Madrid, 1990, 68 pages. Germany: Von der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Lütz...
Hello! I´m looking for any kind of information about hamburg-südamerikanische line, since 1871 to 1945. And, above all, of the merchant ship named Tenerife (1922-1939), sunk in denmark strait in an encounter with the armed merchant cruiser HMS Transylvania. This episode is very interesting, and also...