A Weimar-era light cruiser from a 2016 short story entitled "The Mean Season" by Jamie Campbell (Pseud.) Rostock Cruiser Main Battery: 9 x 5.9 inch guns (Triple turrets A, X & Y) Secondary battery/AA armament not specified. Torpedoes: 9 x 20inch (500mm) Torpedo Tubes Displacement: 6400 tons Speed: 3...
A Soviet warship from a 1970s technothriller... Allende (Named after Salvador Allende (President of Chile, 1970 - 1973).) Guevara Class Guided Missile Destroyer (Fictional) Nuclear Powered Speed: 50 knots Described as having "...a low, clean profile and flared bow, she hugged the water to make radar...
I'm currently reading through Dale Brown's 'Fatal Terrain' to make up the next entry on my version of the 'Fictional Warships' list (See also my posting of the 26th of October 2017 for a link to the last time I tackled one of his books.), despite being an aviation oriented writer, he sometimes throw...
Feeling rather full after Christmas Lunch, what we had at the restaurant was pretty good apart from the Christmas Puddings which were like hockey pucks...
The very vague description of the 'battlecruiser' Moltke from Douglas Reeman's 1974 novel, ' The Destroyers ' Sheridan had seen her once, just before the war, 1937 when King George had reviewed the fleet at Spithead. It was like a mad dream now. But at the time it seemed only right and proper of the...
90 aircraft would be about the size of the air wing of the Forrestal and later class ships in the late 1960s and 1970s. Of course not all of the aircraft would be fighter bombers. Thanks, I had worked that bit out already, but I was hoping to work out the rough dimensions of the carrier, as that wo...
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