British Warships of World War 2 The British Royal Navy played a most important, oft-forgotten role in the world conflict against the Axis powers, seeing action across the globe.
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Dixmude (A-609) The French escort carrier Dixmude A-609 was built in the United States in 1939 first named as the Rio Parana - a river in South America - as a C3 type passenger cargo ship by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester,...
1940
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HMS Audacity (D10) The British navy has always produced ships that were on the leading edge of naval technology - the HMS Victory and HMS Dreadnought being such two. Another became HMS Audacity, the first escort aircraft carrier. The escort su...
1941
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HMS Belfast (C35) Due to Germany rearming in the 1930’s Britain began to increase ships in her steel fortress. HMS Belfast and her sister ship Edinburgh were the Town class cruisers commissioned before the start of World War II. The Town Cl...
HMS Prince of Wales (53) The HMS Prince of Wales served the British Navy for a few short years in World War 2 taking part in the damaging that would lead to the eventually sinking of the mythical KMS Bismarck. She was a class of five King George V-cl...
Type VII Type VII u-boats made up a large part of the u-boat fighting force in the Atlantic. This class of fighting ship helped the German Navy reign the high seas between America and England for years and became the face of the U-boa...
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