19-08-2005, 20:44
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חבר מתאריך: 26.05.05
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History of Warship names
Corvette: From the French, Napoleonic wars. A single decked, two masted warship. In modern navies applied to small, ususally missile-armed ships capable of blue water travers but normally used in brown water actions.
Frigate: 17th century, start of Anglo French war. 2 deck warship with three masts carring between 28 and 44 guns. In modern warfare normally refers to ships larger than corvettes, capable of Blue water action.
Light Cruiser. Originally a class from WW I, which became a way for the Japanese and Germans to exceed the limits placed on them by the Treaty of San Francisco (by having very fast, powerfully armed, but lightly armoured ships.
Cruiser. Another Napoleonic-era term for a ship capable of and engaging in cruising on its own to detect, attack, and sink enemy ships. usually were actually heavy frigates. In modern warfare used from WWI to indicate a fast moving warship with heavier guns than a destroyer. There are/were also Heavy cruisers.
Battleship. Capable of carrying at least four turrets of three 5.2" guns and above, with heavy armour. Last they were used is as shorebombardment ships by the US, which has also used them (though not since GW I) as guided missile (Tomahawk) shore bombardment ships.
There were also (in and before WW I) Dreadnoughts, which were even heavier, ina rmour and guns, than a battleship. One of them sunk in a famous training accident off the coast of Tsidon in Lebanon, in 1910 if I remember correctly.
Sorry about the English, but my comoputer doesn't write Hebrew, and nothing I can say will make it do so.
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