Costs of warships 1900-1918

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This list reflects the results of the first organised effort to determine the costs of warships of all nations[1] involved in World War I.

Contents

[edit] Exchange rates in 1914

[edit] Nations

[edit] Austria-Hungary

Pre-dreadnoughts

Armoured Cruisers

Light Cruisers

[edit] France

Pre-dreadnoughts

Dreadnoughts

Armoured Cruisers

  • Aube (Amiral Aube?) £973,410
  • Bruix £409,622
  • Charner (Amiral Charner) £353,200
  • Conde £863,799
  • Desaix £762,759
  • Dupetit-Thouars £831,839
  • Dupleix £652,354
  • Edgard Quinet £1,307,536
  • Ernest Renan £1,410,000
  • Gloire £883,269
  • Gueydon (Amiral Gueydon) £817,994
  • Jeanne d'Arc £875,847
  • Jules Ferry £1,169,940
  • Jules Michelet £1,204,107
  • Kleber £770,320
  • Leon Gambetta £1,169,640
  • Marseillaise £881,270
  • Montcalm £902,809
  • Victor Hugo £1,229,932
  • Waldeck-Rousseau £1,301,380

Cruisers

Light Cruisers

  • Cassard £318,712
  • Descartes £334,725
  • D'Estrees £208,200
  • Du Chayla £315,835
  • Friant £308,750
  • Lavoisier £202,024

[edit] Germany

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Dreadnoughts

Battlecruisers

Armoured Cruisers

Light Cruisers

[edit] Great Britain

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Dreadnoughts

Battlecruisers

Armoured cruisers

  • HMS Diadem, Amphitrite, Andromeda, Argonaut, Ariadne, Europa, Niobe, Spartiate, approx. £600.000 average
  • HMS Cressy, Aboukir, Bacchante, Hogue, Sutlej, Euryalus, approx. £800,000 average
  • HMS Drake £1,002,977
  • HMS Good Hope £990,759
  • HMS King Alfred £978,125
  • HMS Leviathan £1,012,959
  • HMS Monmouth, Bedford, Donegal, Berwick, Kent, Cumberland, Cornwall, Essex, Suffolk, Lancaster, approx. £775,000 average
  • HMS Devonshire, Antrim, Argyll, Carnarvon, Hampshire, Roxburgh, approx. £850,000 average
  • HMS Duke of Edinburgh, Black Prince, approx. £1,150,000 average
  • HMS Warrior, Cochrane, Natal, Achilles, approx. £1,180,000 average
  • HMS Minotaur £1,410,356
  • HMS Defence £1,362,970
  • HMS Shannon £1,415,535

Light Cruisers

  • HMS Courageous £2,038,225
  • HMS Edgar £410,980
  • HMS Hawke £400,702
  • HMS Endymion £375,250
  • HMS Royal Arthur £412,033
  • HMS Gibraltar £373,236
  • HMS Grafton £372,890
  • HMS St George £388,755
  • HMS Theseus £370,359
  • HMS Crescent £392,453
  • HMS Apollo, Aeolus, Andromache, Brilliant, Indefatigable, Intrepid, Iphigenia, Latona, Melampus, Naiad, Pique, Rainbow, Retribution, Sappho, Scylla, Sirius, Spartan, Sybille, Terpsichore, Thetis, Tribune - approx. £200,000 average
  • HMS Highflyer, Hermes, Hyacinth - approx. £300,000 average
  • HMS Pelorous, Pandora, Pegasus, Perseus, Pactolus, Pioneer, Pomone, Prometheus, Proserpine, Psyche, Pyramus = approx. £150,000 average
  • HMS Topaze, Amethyst, Diamond, Sapphire - approx. £240,000 average
  • HMS Sentinel, Skirmisher - approx. £282,000 average
  • HMS Forward, Foresight - approx. £289,000 average
  • HMS Pathfinder, Patrol Laid down - approx. £279,000 average
  • HMS Adventure, Attentive - approx. £275,000 average
  • HMS Boadicea, Bellona - approx. £330,000 average
  • HMS Weymouth, Dartmouth, Falmouth, Yarmouth £396,363 average
  • HMS Chatham, Dublin, Southampton, HMAS Sydney (RAN), Melbourne (RAN), Brisbane (RAN) - £334,053 average
  • HMS Arethusa, Aurora, Galatea, Inconstant, Penelope, Phaeton, Royalist, Undaunted - approx. £285,000 average

Monitors

  • HMS Humber, HMS Mersey, HMS Severn £155,000 each. Bought from Brazil.
  • HMS Gorgon, HMS Glatton £370,000 each. From Norway.
  • Marshal Soult, Marshal Ney £270,000 each
  • HMS Erebus £380,000 + used weaponry. Would have cost about £540,000 with new weaponry.
  • HMS General Wolfe and other 12 inch monitors approx. £260,000 (before conversions with larger guns).

Destroyers

  • HMS Acheron £88,000
  • HMS Beagle £106,000
  • HMS Defender £83,000
  • HMS Acorn £94,000
  • HMS Acasta - £100,000
  • HMS Laforey - £98,000
  • M class - £100,000
  • Admiralty M class with higher speeds cost £110,000, but the 'Specials' were faster and cost £127,000 each
  • V&W destroyers - £200,000

Minesweepers

  • Flower Class minesweeper £60,000

Submarines

  • D Class sub £89,000

[edit] Greece

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Armoured Cruisers

Destroyers

[edit] Italy

Pre-dreadnoughts

  • Napoli and Regina Elena £1,120,000
  • Re Umberto £1,058,500
  • Roma £1,120,000
  • Sardegna £1,057,440
  • Sicilia £1,050,000
  • Vittorio Emanuele III £1,120,000

Armoured Cruisers

  • Amalfi £880,000
  • Marco Polo £344,400

Light cruisers

  • Calabria £183,120
  • Elba £200,000
  • Etruria £183,120
  • Liguria £183,120
  • Puglia £200,000

Gunboats

  • Governolo £58,440
  • Aretusa, Iride, Minerva £72,920 each

[edit] Japan

Pre-dreadnoughts

Battlecruisers

Coast Defence

  • Minoshima £410,000

Armoured Cruisers

Light cruisers

[edit] Netherlands

Coast Defence

  • De Ruyter, Hertog Hendrik, Jacob van Heemskerck, Koningin Regentes, Marten Tromp £347,500 each

Cruisers

  • Friesland, Holland, Zeeland £285,700

[edit] Norway

Coast Defence

[edit] Portugal

Coast Defence

  • Vasco da Gama £132,000

[edit] Russia

Dreadnoughts

  • Gangut, Petropavlosk, Poltava, Sevastopol approx. 29 million rubles each (extremely expensive due to design faults and state bureaucracy)

Pre-dreadnoughts

  • Andrei Pervozvannyi, Pevel I (Imperator) £1,170,000 each
  • Sinope £900,000
  • Petropavlosk 9,225,309 rubles (Brassey says £1,098,000)
  • Poltava, Sevastopol £1,098,000 each
  • Peresviet 10.54 mil. Rub.
  • Oslyabya 11.34 mil. Rub.
  • Pobieda 10.05 mil. Rub.
  • Catherine II £900,000
  • Georgi Pobiedonosetz £431,000
  • Navarin £772,995
  • Nicolai I £453,000
  • Sissoi Veliki £796,333

Coast Defence

  • Admiral Oushakoff, Admiral Seniavin £410,000 each

Cruisers

  • Zhemchug 3,549,848 rubles (sister Izumrud was of comparable cost, both nearly twice as expensive as near-sister Novik, built in Germany)
  • Admiral Nakhimof £572,000
  • Pamyat Azova £350,000
  • Admiral Korniloff £296,000

Gunboats

  • Kazarsky £32,500
  • Abrek £53,600
  • Griden £66,600
  • Posadnik, Voevoda £111,000

[edit] Spain

Dreadnoughts

Armoured Cruisers

[edit] Sweden

Armoured Cruisers

  • Fylgia £385,700
  • Sverige £666,000

[edit] Turkey

Pre-dreadnoughts

[edit] External links

  • [1] Dreadnought Rising project
  • [2] Extracts from Brassey's Naval Annual.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Costs of Warships and Aircraft (1900-1918): A forumini project
  2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_krone
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