the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiserIzmail(pictured) from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy?
the JapanesedestroyerMatsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-classbattleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?