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This document attempts to detail the main types of vessel that were in existence in World War Two, explaining the difference between ships such as: a corvette and a frigate; a battle cruiser and a pocket battleship; a merchant aircraft carrier and an escort carrier; an armed merchant cruiser and a merchant raider.
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Smaller vessels known as "junior mine planters" or "pup planters", were occasionally employed as mine planters, but they mostly served as freight and passenger boats for river and harbor duty with the Harbor Boat Service. [3]
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
World War II Ships. These ships of the line were still considered the central components of the navies of all world powers at the start of the war, but by the war's end, these floating fortresses found their roles dramatically changed at the face of air power.
Smaller ships would be kept out of the line and relegated to skirmishing with the enemy’s smaller ships. The big, heavy, well-armed vessels suitable to fight in the line became collectively known as “ships of the line of battle,” which was eventually contracted to “ship of the line,” or alternatively as “ line of battle ships ...
Warships, battles and tactics of the second world war (1939-1945) with an overview from interwar treaties, projects and shipbuilding programs.
