The following images illustrate the most important classes of warships
that were in service with the navies of the Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil
and Romania during the World War II. All the images are created by www.naval-encyclopedia.com. In that page you can read some excellent naval history articles, to download
other graphs or you can purchase the same graphs in high resolution in
the online shop! More posts will follow
for your collection of current naval fleets but also of fleets from the
past.
Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) in WWII
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| Click to enlarge and save the image to view the details - Royal Netherlands Navy in WWII. It should be mentioned that the battlecruiser Holland was never completed and remained a project (Design 1047, also known as Project 1047) |
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| Click to enlarge and save the image to view the details - Turkish Navy in WWII |
Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) in WWII
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| Click to enlarge and save the image to view the details - Brazilian Navy in WWII |
Romanian Navy (Forțele Navale Române) in WWII
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| Click to enlarge and save the image to view the details - Romanian Navy in WWII |
The Dutch Battlecruisers (3 planned) made it never past the drawing table. Concrete plans were only made by late 1939 and the official go-ahead was not given before the outbreak of the war in the Netherlands (may 1940). So stating ''illustrate the most important classes of warships that were in service with the navies'' is wrong on this account for the RNN.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Mark Vos! That's correct about the battlecruiser but this is the general introduction in this series of posts. In the caption however, I mention that the Project was never materialized.
DeleteTo supplement my earlier comment: Artists at Shipbucket have done some painstaking research to find out how the design would have looked like in 1939 and 1940. You can find them on the SB website: http://www.shipbucket.com/drawings?category=neverbuilt&country=12&shipType=18
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link Mark, I will check the story about it!
Deletehmm
ReplyDeleteThere's some errors on the Brazilian Navy picture
ReplyDeleteThe first one is the misspelling of the word "Maranhão" (Maranahao)
The DE class is "Bertioga" and not "Beberibe" (Beberibe was the 2nd ship of the class)
I wouldn't say misspelling, but there's some names that were written diffently at that time because of the ortography
Like: "Minas Geraes","Humaytá" and "Tupy"
I don't see any sense on putting the Amazonas class (Acre class) in the graph since they were comissioned in post WW2.
And speaking of putting ships
There's actually some ships missing and i'll list them
SC-497 class subchasers
PC-461 class subchasers
Corvette "Rio Branco"
Corvette "Jaceguay"
Minesweeper "Itapemirim"
Minesweeper "Iguapé"
Auxiliary ship "Vital de Oliveira"
Destroyer tender/Repair Ship "Belmonte"
Riverine Monitor "ParnaÃba"
Riverine Monitor "Paraguassú"
About the monitors
They were taken from their riverine "habitat" and sent to the northeastern to do costal convoy escort and local defense.