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This is the new 2026 website for Naval Encyclopedia. She is just out of the dry-dock after a major overhaul and in post-refit sea trials. Full Commission is expected in February. About the new logo: If the base colors remain the same, inspired by the sea, its graphic appearance is brand new. The original one was essentially an anchor split with a forward view of the Bismarck. However, in the long run, it appears difficult to decipher, and impossible to simplify more as it was in 2022. Now, the new logo expresses a duality, traduced in two ways: 1-Warships are at the same “cooler” than cargo ships, but also instant steel coffins for thousands. 2-Civilian Aspects: The new direction of naval encyclopedia from 2026 onwards is a leap into the civilian fleets from the industrial revolution to this day. Thus, the logo reflects the dark and bright side of the “naval” sphere, war and peace. All classes from the earliest packet boats to transatlantic liners, from the last merchant steel clippers to modern container ships, specialized vessels to humble trawlers.

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KD1 (1921) class submersible

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Japan 1921-40: I-51, large oceanic submarine. The Type KD1 (海大型潜水艦, Kaidai-gata sensuikan) or Kaidai-I ("navy large type", or I-51 class) was the largest Japanese submarine design, the first of a lineage that went until the

Albatros (1930)

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Regia Marina: Single ship Built 1931-34 Albatros was a submarine chaser of the Regia Marina that saw action during the war. The type branched out later to the smaller and simpler Gabbiano class Corvettes. She

Friant class Protected Cruiser (1893)

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Marine Nationale (1891-1896), Friant, Bugeaud, Chasseloup-Laubat The Friant class were three protected cruisers (Friant, Bugeaud, and Chasseloup-Laubat), ordered as part of a naval construction program targeting Italy and Germany to remedy a French chronic deficiency
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