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 (6 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 the Netherlands by period‎ (2 C)

0–9

• 19th-century naval ships‎ (5 C, 2 P)

A

• Age of Sail naval ships‎ (5 C, 6 P)
• American Civil War naval ships‎ (2 C)
• Auxiliary ships of the United States by period‎ (7 C)

I

• Iran–Iraq War naval ships of Iran‎ (31 P)

N

• Naval ships of Germany by period‎ (3 C)
• 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, 41 P)