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I tried to do this once before, but RL and computer deaths got in the way.
I plan to do a listing of the construction of each pre-Dreadnought, Dreadnought, and super-Dreadnought, starting from, say { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1875) } all the way to the last big gun ships ever built, in chronological order, for all the nations I can get the info on. Below is a quick listing for just the links over on wiki, these are not organized in chronological order, and do not include any basic information (laid down, completed, commissioned, armament, speed, range, tonnage, length, width, drought), which I will do in the near future. This is just to illustrate the planed task at hand, and to ask for help, info, and things to include.

Anyone that would like to assist in this endeavor just say so.

List of links for the German fleet list, without planned classes, or listings for the Battle-Cruisers, in no particular order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayern-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helgoland-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Friedrich_III-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nig-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittelsbach-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharnhorst-class_battleship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck-class_battleship

So, the idea here is that eventually, either I or someone from this forum community, will complete a few wiki pages that give a fairly complete listing of all the Big-Gun ships, for all the main nations that built or bought them. For now, this is just a very poor little posting of what I have gotten so far, on the German fleet.

I have information for the UK, and will post that as time permits.
I have incomplete information on the French fleet, but need help getting the rest of her historical ships information, as the "preceded by" links stop with the Henry IV, but the second paragraph in that page says:

wiki: said:
Henri IV was smaller than her predecessors, at 108 meters (354 ft 4 in) overall.

And of course, Wiki being Wiki, no one bothers to mention what those ships were, nor a link to them, leaving me pretty much dead in the water at the moment.
Any thoughts?
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