Age of Sail Warships
Early naval warfare was typified by wooden, tall-masted, wind-powered vessels armed with cannon with crews made up of both sailors and soldiers.
1868
Arapiles was a frigate-turned-ironclad appearing in the middle to late 1860s and serving with the Spanish Navy. Construction ...
1982
In 1970, the Mexican Navy acquired funds to have a ship built for training the cadets of the Mexican Naval Academy. Unlike th...
1867
In the latter half of the 1800s, the world was a rapidly changing radical place, particularly in Europe due the expanding ind...
1932
The schooner Belle Poule (A650) was built and launched in 1932 as a brown and blue water training vessel for the French Navy ...
1400
In the 15th Century, Western Europeans were consistently venturing further into Atlantic waters for empirical conquest and ec...
1862
When war broke out between the States on April 12th, 1861, the South moved to send representatives throughout Europe in the h...
1864
The Confederate Naval Department turned to James Dunwoody Bulloch - the Confederate States of America's agent in England - on...
1867
The HMS Agincourt was an ironclad vessel of the British Royal Navy, serving from 1865 through to 1909. The ship was a hybrid ...
1587
In 1586 an English galleon was ordered by Sir Walter Raleigh from the shipbuilder R. Chapman located in Depford England. As...
1852
HMS Duke of Wellington was a hybrid ship of sorts, initially operating under sail power but eventually giving way to the adve...
1765
As fate would have it in 1758, the same year of Lord Nelson's birth the Board of Admiralty ordered twelve new ships of the li...
1861
After 1815, the British Royal Navy took on the role of "World's Policeman" by - with some help from American Navy ships like ...
1927
The Juan Sebastian de Elcano is a tall, four-masted, fully-rigged, steel-hulled barquentine ship used by the Royal Spanish Na...
1860
France unnerved neighboring Britain when they unveiled their all-wood, steam-powered screw propulsion battleship - the 90-gun...
1852
The screw propeller was first used on a military vessel in 1852 by the French with the introduction of the Napoleon a 90-gun ...
1864
In December of 1863, the Confederate States of America contacted the L'Arman ship building firm in Bordeaux, France to constr...
1946
German leader Adolf Hitler was pressing the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) to increase the number of naval officers for his impen...
1774
The Alfred became a 30 gun man-of-war (20 x 9-pounder cannons and 10 x 6-pounder cannons, both smoothbore) for the burgeoning...
1782
On November 9th, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the construction and purchase of three 74-gun ships. The first of...
1765
The Duc de Duras, a 900 ton merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, transported freight betw...
1797
The USS Constitution was a product of changing times in America's policy. Fresh off of their independence war decades earlier...
1797
The Congressional Act to Provide Naval Armament (known as the Naval Act of 1794) was passed by the United States Congress on ...
1775
The short-lived eight-gun schooner USS Wasp was born as a two-masted merchantman known as the "Scorpion". The Continental Con...
1840
In 1815, the entire United States naval force consisted of 18 warships - the USS Independence, a 90-gun ship-of-the-line, 5 f...
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