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Information on merchant vessel routes and speeds

Naval Ships

• the Raubvogel class of German destroyers *

• the Alcyon class of Greek gunboats

• the British Revenge class battleships

• HMS Glorious, an aircraft carrier

• the A-class British destroyers

• Turkish Tepe class destroyers

• Italian Freccia class destroyers

• the USS Panay, a famous China river steamer *

• the XCV aircraft carrier/ocean liner, a proposal from 1928

• the RN Saint class of rescue/salvage tugs

• the Djugashvili, a Soviet merchant ship/seaplane tender

Submarines

• American Neptune-class submarine cruiser

• the SMCP mystery sub *

• the French cruiser submarine Surcouf *

• the Finnish Vetehinen class submarines

• the Type IA u-boats, first submarines of the Third Reich.

• the Type IIB u-boats, small coastal submarines *

• the Jorgenson-Smythe submersible *

Naval and Patrol Small Craft

• here's an excellent page on the American-built "Elco" (the Electric Boat Company, famous later for building submarines) motor launches used in large numbers by the Royal Navy in the Great War. They were also delivered to the Canadians, French, Italians, Irish, Poles and Russians. The RN scrapped or sold them all by 1927. During the Great War, they cost the Royal Navy £8400 without weapons or radios. In 1920, however, you could get one (minus weapons and radios) for £600, or for £100 with the engines removed. Converted to a yacht they would cost about £1500 in the early Twenties (or as low as £400 with only a small 90 HP engine and not-very-luxurious interior). Quite a few survived as yachts and houseboats until the Second World War, rescuing soldiers from Dunkirk etc. They're roughly 80' long (but there are a lot of variations).

• and a nice page on the US Navy's 110' subchasers, another vessel built in great numbers for the Great War.

• a 75' motor gun boat

• a German schnellboote *

• a Royal Navy 72' harbor launch *

• 45' RN launch

• 40' harbor patrol boat

• 32' RN cutter

• a garbage scow *

Merchant Ships

• the T.S.S. Zamalek, a small passenger liner *

• the S.S. Calgarian, a passenger liner

• the Hog Island (type A) class of freighters *

• a smaller freighter *

• the very small freighter S.S. Minos *

• a large, modern tanker

• a typical tramp motorship

• another small motorship built in the 1920s
  

• a small, coastal motorship

• a Dainty-class salvage tug *

• a luxury motor yacht for six passengers *

• and yet another huge motor yacht *

• a Clyde "puffer", a common small British coastal freighter *

• a large ocean-going steam trawler

• the Bertilak, a smuggling vessel disguised as a sambuk *

• a sambuk, a larger variety of Arab dhow *

• a 13th Century Venetian galley *

• a Chinese pirate junk*

Small Craft

• a 17' Hacker-Craft

• a Crouch rumrunner

• a 20' motor launch *

• a 20' motor cargo launch *

• a modern, well-equipped 28' lifeboat *

• a 31' fishing boat *

• a 32' sailing cutter

• a 40' express cruiser, fast transport for adventurers

• a 55' motor launch, typical of boats used at Dunkirk *

• a 63' motor sailer

*we have models and plans, flat or otherwise, available for these! There's also a lot of information here.