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Kotetsu (ex CSS Stonewall), Japan’s first modern ironclad, 1869. The British-built Mikasa, the most powerful battleship of her time, in 1905. Important as the army was, for an island nation like Japan the navy was even more vital. It took impressive strides forward from the 1870s to the 1890s while Togo slowly progressed through its […]

Shikishima at Sasebo 13 December 1915. The first of four battleships authorised under the Second Period Expansion Programme of 1895, she was ordered from Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, and completed in 1901. Tokiwa early in her career. Despite being ordered from three different European countries, all six armoured cruisers had a similar displacement and a common […]

“I-25 Shells Fort Stevens”. On the night of June 21, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 fired 17 rounds at Fort Stevens, Oregon located at the mouth of the Columbia River. It was the second attack on a military base in the continental U.S. during WWII [Painted by Richard L. Stark] Japanese type B-1 submarine cutaway, […]