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The Great Ships Season 2

Ended 1996–1998
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Season 2 Episodes

15 episodes
1
The Destroyers
Oct 2, 1997
Knifing through the waves, destroyers are amongst the fastest and most deadly warships ever built. Mounting a powerful arsenal of offensive and defensive weapons, they can serve equally well as escorts for other vessels or as formidable attack ships in their own right. From their humble beginnings as stripped-down vessels designed exclusively to destroy torpedo boats, through the WWII models battling the U-boat 'wolf packs' in the North Atlantic to the most modern versions each now more powerful than a whole squadron of WWI dreadnoughts.
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The Freighters
Oct 9, 1997
3
The Delta Queen
Oct 16, 1997
4
The Frigates
Oct 23, 1997
5
The Ironclads
Nov 6, 1997
With their menacing dark silhouettes belching fire and smoke, the Ironclad warships of the mid 19th century burst onto the naval scene like hulking metal monsters. Combining iron plating, steam propulsion and the biggest and most powerful guns afloat, the Ironclads represented a radical advance over all previous warships. Although pioneered by the French and British with ships like HMS Warrior, today they are best remembered for the part they played in the American Civil War.
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The Pirate Ships
Nov 13, 1997
A history brief of piracy through eighteen centuries, with emphasis on ship building and maneuvering in the eighteenth century.
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The Riverboats
Nov 20, 1997
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The Trawlers
Dec 4, 1997
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The Battleships
Dec 11, 1997
10
The Schooners
Dec 18, 1997
11
The Power Racers
Jan 8, 1998
12
The Tankers
Jan 15, 1998
13
The Amphibious Assault Ships
Jan 22, 1998
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High Tech, High Seas Navigation
Jan 29, 1998
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High Tech, High Seas Design and Construction
Feb 5, 1998