Finland's coastal battleships and diesel-electric machinery

Would you cover the Finnish coastal battleships Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen and their diesel-electric propulsion?

Possibly. Their unusual ships and operations against the Soviet Union make Finland's interwar navy a strong subject for a coastal-battleship study.

Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen were unusual Finnish coastal battleships with diesel-electric propulsion and a role closer to monitors or coast-defense ships than conventional fleet battleships. Finland's interwar navy and its wars with the Soviet Union offer the operational setting needed to understand that design choice. The ships also fit naturally into a broader study of monitors and coastal battleships around the world. Studying them connects unusual machinery to the regional missions of a small navy.