Warship 2022 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships.

For 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which Warship has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the keynote of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.

The varied topics in this year's annual includes articles on the Imperial Japanese Navy carriers Soryu and Hiryu, post-war radar development in the Royal Navy, gunboats in the Imperial German Navy, Soviet battleship designs of the early Second World War, modern European frigates, and the origins of the Yokosuka naval yard.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472847836
• Artikelnr.: 64073650

Autorenporträt

John Jordan is a former language teacher. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and more recently co-authored French Battleships 1922-56 (Seaforth, 2009) with Robert Dumas. He has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

THE 1927 SOVIET FLOTILLA LEADERS (Przemyslaw Budzbon & Jan Radziemski)
THE CHALLENGE OF OPERATION 'TUNNEL' SEPTEMBER 1943 - APRIL 1944 (Michael
Whitby)
THE IJN CARRIERS SORYU AND HIRYU (Kathrin Milanovich)
THE SMALL CRUISER IN THE IGN PART III: THE GUNBOATS (Dirk Nottelmann)
THE BATTLESHIP JAURÉGUIBERRY (Philippe Caresse)
POSTWAR RADAR DEVELOPMENT IN THE ROYAL NAVY (Peter Marland)
SOVIET BATTLESHIP DESIGNS 1939-1941 (Stephen McLaughlin)
THE GENESIS OF YOKOSUKA NAVY YARD (Hans Lengerer)
ESPLORATORI OF THE REGIA MARINA, 1906-1939 (Enrico Cernuschi)
MODERN EUROPEAN FRIGATES (Conrad Waters)
THE AUSTRALIAN BATHURST-CLASS MINESWEEPER CORVETTE (Mark Briggs)
C 65 ACONIT: FRANCE'S PROTOTYPE OCEAN ESCORT (John Jordan)
NAVAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WARSHIP NOTES:
- Italian Ship Medallions (Enrico Cernuschi)
- The Royal Navy and 'National' Names (Kenneth Fraser)
WARSHIP GALLERY
The breaking-up of three iconic British warships, HM Ships Agincourt, New
Zealand and Princess Royal, at Rosyth during 1923-25 (Aidan Dodson)