At the start of the American Civil War, the Union Navy was not that much interested in ironclad ships. Once they learned the Confederate Navy was converting a ship to an ironclad (theVirginia), they realized the necessity of having one of their own. The feared the Confederate ship would ca...
They were the brain child (although 'brain orphan' might be more appropriate!) of Admiral Andrey Alexandrovich Popov, a veteran of the Crimean War, who was very familiar with latest naval developments in the UK, France and the US. In spite of that familiarity with design practices of the ...
But in recent weeks, the shipments have become even more controversial after Ukrainian authorities claimed Crimean ports, including Sevastopol, are being used to export grain looted from their country, primarily from areas of the south-east that have been occupied by Russian forces this year. In e...
Having landed her refugees at Malta, Marlborough returned to the Black Sea where she bombarded the Bolshevik positions in an attempt to slow their advance through the Crimean Peninsular. The following year (1920), she landed seamen and marines in Constantinople during the post-War unrest there...
Ukraine's ambassador to the UK said Russian special forces had captured two armoured artillery boats and a tugboat in an "act of aggression". Russian jet fighters fly over a bridge connecting Russia with the Crimean peninsula Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it used weapons after ...
The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, was a Russian naval victory over the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War that took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when a squadron of Imperial Russian warships struck and defeated ...
She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sweaborg on 10 August 1855. She later took part in the French Intervention in Mexico as a troop ship. Put in ordinary in 1864, she was hulked in Cherbourg in 1871 to serve as a prison for survivor...