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Warship 2001-2002 | 
 enlarge | Author: Antony Preston
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $304.48
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2104384
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0851779018
Dewey Decimal Number: 623
EAN: 9780851779010
ASIN: 0851779018
Publication Date: May 2002
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Product Description
This latest edition of the well-established annual publication offers a true feast of information on the design, development, and service history of the world's warships. Covering a diverse range of naval subjects, it features articles on the French cruiser Algerie, the King Edward VII-class battleship known as "The Wobbly Eight," Swedish torpedo boats, the Royal Navy's ship's names committee, British anti-submarine warfare in World War I, the 1898 Battle of Santiago, the Action off Cape Sarych in 1914, and the second part of a trilogy examining the Royal Navy's first class cruisers. The work is rounded off with sections reviewing the naval year and all the best recently published books, videos, and websites on naval history.
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If you are interested in this field then this is reference is a must have item July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have all of these published to date. They have a very high and uniform quality of content. The each edition contains material researched by international subject matter experts. The Hosho, De Grasse, Calabria and Italian Torpedo boat articles were all very interesting. If you are a naval history and ship construction nut, there really is only one other periodical to go for this kind and quality of information. I love both.
Great Articles July 26, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Warship is an annually produced compilation of articles on the design, development and service hostory of the world's combat ships. The 2005 issue is one of the most interesting volumes yet.
The first article is on the failure of British armor piercing big gun shells to pierce armor and then to fail to explode. It is surprising to me that such little details seemingly are ignored until a country goes to war, ships have sunk, and people have died. I was reminded of the failure of the American (and German) torpedoes to explode. After all the effort put into submarines, training the crew and sending them off to war, it appears that only one live test of a torpedo had been run and it had failed.
Another article is on the early steam powered torpedo boats built by the Royal Navy in the late 1800's. These definitely do not look like they would be good boats on which to serve. I had seen pictures of them before but the article goes into things like sea keeping, and life on board as well as more technical details on the ships.
The articles in this book are not short, averaging something over a dozen pages. Annual columns reviewing the navies of the world, a gallery of pictures and others take up about a quarter of the book.
As usual, this is a fascinating book. It brings up points of history that aren't seen very often. It's very very well written. Highly recommended to any interested person.
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