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auxiliary warships, such as the Q-ships of the First World War and the armed merchant cruisers of the Second World War. The main types of warships today are

passing a series of laws to construct an increasing number of large surface warships. The construction of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 prompted Tirpitz to further

From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships

Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6. Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7

It publishes articles about various type of warships, especially since the advent of ironclad warships (1860–onwards), with a focus on ship designs (armor

a new type of warship, later classified as a cottonclad warship. Cottonclads were various kinds of steamboats transformed into warships in places such

propulsion. While paddle steamer warships had been used from the 1830s onward, steam propulsion only became suitable for major warships after the adoption of the

Armstrongs and has a heritage of building large naval warships and armaments. Through a complicated history the company's shipbuilding division is now BAE Systems

require a smaller crew and to be less expensive to operate than comparable warships. The lead ship is named Zumwalt for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and carries the

fleet of 37 merchantmen, when on 14 April she encountered the British warships HMS Roebuck and HMS Orpheus off the Delaware Capes. Harding ordered his