shipbuilding

This came to mind in a thread about US ship production, and I thought it should be spun off into its own thread for proper discussion. While Armored Cruisers were overtaken by Battlecruisers leading up to WW1, I suspect that is largely because the existing (Armored) Cruisers were all still...

Sort of a general topic here, and I hope this is the best spot for it. My question is how one would fix the miserable state that shipbuilding for the USN is in. I've got to assume commercial shipbuilding has suffered greatly as well due to many of the same conditions. It sounds like there aren't...

Watching the decline in size and construction problems encountered by the USN since 1991 I am reminded of the fate of the Royal Navy after WW2. At first sight the US has done rather better. It still has the world's largest force of nuclear strike carriers and its nuclear submarines remain the...

Hi! I am new to this forum, looking for both basic and deeply technical information on the famous German battleship, Bismarck. My aim is to gather technical and scientific information about this ship, then recreate it rigorously in an ambitious university project and, subsequently, publish it...

Howdy folks! I recently came across these two designs/blueprints of the D-class panzerschiffe (more like battlecruisers at this point), which were originally named Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen that eventually became battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from my understanding of their...

During WWII the US Navy received 22 of 32 Essex Class Carriers; 4 of 6 Iowa Class Battleships and two of six Alaska Class Large Cruisers plus dozens of other cruisers, hundreds of destroyers and submarines, and thousands of smaller and auxiliary ships. Nearing completion were the three Midway...

The Koreans and Japanese (not to mention the Chinese) are able to churn out warships by the dozen more cheaply than what the US yards can. The 30DX and Daegu frigates, especially come to mind compared to the FFG(X). Most people attribute to this to Koreans and Japanese building to commercial...