Väinämöinen was a Finnish coastal defence ship, the sister ship of the Finnish Navy's flagship Ilmarinen and also the first ship of her class. She was...

Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during...

Ilmarinen was a Finnish Navy Panssarilaiva, Swedish Pansarskepp ("Armored ship"; a coastal defence ship by British classification). The unit was constructed...

prolonged ship building times. The Finnish Navy operated the following vessels in the Baltic Sea: Two coastal defence ships (Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen) Five...

military of Finland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the Finnish Army, the Finnish Navy, and the Finnish Air Force. In wartime, the Finnish Border Guard...

Finns hoped to lure the Soviet Air Forces to attack the Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen. No aircraft were however sent there. S6 ex-Torpedo boat...

retaliatory airstrike into Finland, hitting targets at 6:06 a.m. Helsinki time as reported by the Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen. On the morning of...

ex-Gagara in Russian service) was a Finnish Sokol-class torpedo boat that had been seized from the Russians after the Finnish Civil War 1918. She sank during...

icebreakers. The two coastal defence ships, Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen, were moved to harbour in Turku where they were used to bolster the air defence. Their anti-aircraft...

1848 Magdala (1870) Väinämöinen-class Väinämöinen (1932) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1947 Ilmarinen (1934) - Sunk by mines 1941 Ship of the line Congreso...