Warship 2025

by John Jordan (Editor)

Overview

The 2025 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.

For over 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, Warship combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which the annual has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.

This year's Warship includes features on France's first destroyers, the turn-of-the-century 300-tonne type; Denmark's H-class submarines of World War II; Italy's proposed battlecruiser designs; the Imperial Japanese Navy's Chikuma-class protected cruisers; Soviet S-class submarines; and the first of a series on Imperial Germany's torpedo boats and destroyers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472868541
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Jordan is a former teacher of modern languages. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and has coauthored a series of books for Seaforth Publishing on the French Navy, of which the most recent are French Battleships of World War One (2017) and French Armoured Cruisers 1887–1932 (2019) with Philippe Caresse. John is also the sole author of Warships After Washington, published by Seaforth in 2011; a sequel, Warships After London, was published in autumn 2020. John has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004.

Table of Contents

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLE FLEET OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY BETWEEN THE WARS: PART I

THE 'BLACK GANG': THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORPEDO BOATS IN THE IMPERIAL GERMAN NAVY: PART I

THE TWIN 6IN MK XXI TURRET

THE DANISH SUBMARINES OF THE 'H' CLASS

RUSSIA'S BATTLECRUISER DESIGN COMPETITION OF 1911

THE IJN PROTECTED CRUISERS OF THE CHIKUMA CLASS

THE 300-TONNES: THE FIRST FRENCH TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER

ITALIAN DESIGNS FOR MONITORS AND BATTLECRUISERS DURING THE INTERWAR YEARS

THE BEGINNINGS OF SOVIET NAVAL POWER: THE SUBMARINES OF THE 'S' CLASS

THE GERMAN FLAK SHIPS PART II: THE EX-DUTCH AND DANISH HULLS

WARSHIP NOTES:

· HMS Agamemnon as a Radio-controlled Target Ship. (Martin Marks)

· The Faidherbe and the Marchand Expedition. (Ian Sturton)

· The Protection of French Battleships of the Second World War. (John Jordan)

· Writing on Naval History: Some Notes for Beginners. (Conrad Waters)

· A's & A's.

NAVAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR

WARSHIP GALLERY

The Royal Navy in China and the Middle East, 1927–30; the photographs of Royal Marine Herbert Sparrow (introduced and captioned by Stephen Dent).

Editorial Reviews

There is no doubt on the tremendous technical competence of the contributors” —Army Rumour Service

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