Warship 2008 (Warship) | 
 enlarge | Creators: John Jordan, Stephen Dent
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 30th Anniversary Edn.
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Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1844860620
Dewey Decimal Number: 359
EAN: 9781844860623
ASIN: 1844860620
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description
Filled with original research articles and timely news and reviews of the world of warship history, this 30th-anniversary volume of the acclaimed annual maintains the high standards readers have come to expect. This volume features articles on the Japanese navy carrier Hosho, the French prewar cruisers of the De Grasse-class, small battleship designs, and the Battle of Calabria. It also presents features on the armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, postwar submarine development in the Royal Navy, and the Russian destroyers of the 7/7U class. An assortment of rare and unusual photographs and diagrams accompany the text. A warship notes section includes information on a mysterious U-boat sinking, lost French naval archives, and the new Monitor and Merrimack museum, among other topics.
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If you are interested in this field then this is reference is a must have item July 6, 2008
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 9 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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