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APL-8 Berthing Barge in Manila Bay. APL-15 Berthing Barge at Nashville, TN. Berthing Barges, or Barracks Ships, are a bit undersung units that provide floating living quarters and support for upwards of 500 sailors, typically temporarily while their ship is being overhauled or they are...

From the report it seems they were bunched up in harbor, having just launched when some idiot shot a torpedo right into the tail of the Biber ahead of him, and the rest of the squadron were so close they all got hull ruptures from the blast. All eleven were dredged up and salvaged later.

The Biber was definitely a significant improvement over the Welman, honestly the whole "No torpedos, just a bomb charge you have to physically attach to the enemy ship's keel, and it has no way of bypassing known countermeasures for that" is perplexingly stupid and Bibers did well to switch to...

The Welman was a single-person midget submarine produced by the British in WW2. It's not well known because, well, it didn't do anything. The design has some real headscratchers, f'rex they decided it should have one big explosive charge it would magnetically attach to the bottom of enemy...

Is it just me or does this ship have a turret pointed straight at it's own superstructure?

It always seemed very odd that no museum wanted Sea Shadow. Such a unique craft in design, and being the only one of it's kind period are things that I would think would be good tourists draws.

Sea Shadow Sea Shadow was a unique off-one testbed to see if Stealth Bomber technology could be applied to surface warships. She never saw any action (I don't believe she was even armed) and was thoroughly scrapped after many rounds of tests. Some of her aspects, such as the angled pontoons...

As I love the more bizarre designs, I present the Novgorod. Some enterprising designer came up with the idea that a ship shaped like a bowl would maximize deck space. Why they needed so much deck space when most of it's unused isn't clear but maximize deck space it did, at the expense of...