![]() ![]() So, Naval Encyclopedia is about ships, mostly military, because what does kaboom seems to draw more interest… Than the “invisible” container ship and their anonymous boxes going A to B.Īnd the “kaboom” subject is quite large to cover already as it goes so far back in time. The challenges world’s fleets are facing are huge, traducing like always the shifting weight of nations in geopolitics, in ever growing tensions born from dwindling resources. Specialization and optimization helped global trade in the last XXth century, and especially the XXIth one frequently called “globalized”, based on the consumer society. Nowadays the most complex hand-built moving crafts ever designed by mankind, arguably, are nuclear submarines. In fact relations always had been blurry. This survived well into the 20th century on civilian ships, first as a precaution (like fake ports) then as a tradition on mixed and tall ships. There has been path of divergence and convergence also between civilian ships and their navy counterparts, like the amous Galleons of the 16-17th century that blended the role of cargo and warship. ![]() Relations between the Civilian & Military at Sea: Wind and human power first, and from the 19th century, steam power (fossil fuels based, also a crucial fact in naval calculations, explaining a part of geopolitics in the XXth cent.), up to the dominance of nuclear energy for the most valuable assets. Naval History is indeed very ancient, warships constantly evolving, just as tactics adapting to existing sources of power: ☑ BETTER MENUS: Reworked and customized.☑ PRETTIER: It’s a matter of subjectivity.☑ SECURE: Back to a safer wordpress version.After its last refit in the summer 2022, the present website is: The latter is a work in progress since more than twenty years. The main difference for this early period is to study ships types through some famous examples. ![]() Dedicated to the history of all ships of the industrial era and 20th century, so 1820 to 1990, but also earlier times. Naval Encyclopedia is the first online warship museum (1997), with 2,600+ pages for now, and counting. ![]()
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