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| 003d Surface vessels (1905-1919)The year 1905 is marked as a milestone in the Naval architecture. In Great Britain, the HMS Dreadnought was launched, a revolutionary battleship. This ship became a model for all further battleships built. |
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| Aircraft carriers An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircrafts, in effect acting as a sea-going airbase. |
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| Cruisers - Battlecruisers Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. They evolved from armored cruisers as new technology made it possible to build bigger ships. The main difference was their uniform main armament, compared to armored cruisers which had large and intermediate sized guns. Battlecruisers were of comparable size to a battleship and had the guns of a battleship but substantially thinner armor, the weight saving allowing more powerful engines to be fitted to give it greater speed.
The idea was that the big guns would allow a battlecruiser to take out destroyers and smaller cruisers before the battlecruiser ever got into range of their guns or torpedoes, while their speed would enable them to escape enemy battleships, or to swoop on crippled enemy battleships during a fleet action. The idea was mainly conceived by British admiral Jackie Fisher and summed up in his dictum, "speed is protection" (source: wikipedia) |
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| Destroyers A destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). At the beginning of the 21st century, destroyers are the heaviest surface combatants in general use. |
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| Frigates The term "frigate" passed out of use in the mid-19th Century and was readopted during World War II by the British to describe an anti-submarine escort vessel larger than a corvette but smaller than a destroyer. Such a vessel had a bit less armament than a destroyer; its lesser grade propulsive machinery would yield a lower top speed; and it could carry far less fuel. |
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 | Minesweepers A minesweeper is a military ship designed to locate and destroy naval mines placed in the sea by enemies. The same ships are sometimes used for mine laying.
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