Category:Naval ships by period

• Aircraft carriers by period (5 C)
• Amphibious warfare vessels by period (4 C)
• Auxiliary ships by period (5 C)
• Battlecruisers by period (3 C)
• Battleships by period (9 C)
• Coastal defence ships by period (2 C)
• Corvettes by period (3 C)
• Cruisers by period (10 C)
• Destroyers by period (7 C)
• Frigates by period (7 C)
• Mine warfare vessels by period (7 C, 2 P)
• Missile boats by period (1 C)
• Monitors by period (5 C)
• Patrol vessels by period (5 C)
• Sloops by period (1 C)
• Submarines by period (7 C)

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• Military ship classes by period (1 P)

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• Naval ships of Germany by period (3 C)
• Naval ships of the Netherlands by period (2 C)
• Auxiliary ships of the United States by period (7 C)

0–9

• 19th-century naval ships (6 C, 2 P)

A

• Age of Sail naval ships (5 C, 5 P)
• American Civil War naval ships (2 C)

I

• Iran–Iraq War naval ships of Iran (31 P)
• Italo-Turkish War naval ships (1 C, 1 P)

N

• Naval ships of the Cold War (14 C)
• Naval ships of the Gunboat War (18 P)
• Naval ships of the Korean War (11 C)

R

• Russo-Japanese War naval ships (3 C)

S

• Sino-French War naval ships (11 P)
• First Sino-Japanese War naval ships (3 C)
• Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships (2 C, 3 P)

V

• Victorian-era naval ships (10 C)
• Vietnam War naval ships (11 C)

W

• World War I naval ships (16 C, 3 P)
• World War II naval ships (21 C, 42 P)