Warship/Военный корабль

Издание на английском языке
The book is devoted to historical research of the navy, with an emphasis on significant ships and their impact on naval strategies of different countries. It covers topics such as the design and construction of the famous Japanese battleships Nagato and Miitsii, the cooperation of the Soviet Union with fascist Italy in the creation of the high-speed ship Tashkent, as well as lesser-known naval battles such as the clash between the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the German cruiser Goeben. The technical aspects of French missile frigates, the adaptation of Japanese destroyers to war conditions, and the prehistory of the German merchant raider Seeadler are also discussed. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the various naval forces and their evolution throughout the 20th century, highlighting the innovations and strategic decisions that shaped the course of maritime conflicts.

Contents
Editorial
Feature Articles
Nagato and Mutsu: the 16in-gun battleships that survived the Washington treaty
Hans Lengerer looks at the conception of the IJN’s Nagato and Mutsu, the first battleships in the world to have a mam armament of 16in guns, and also explores the controversy surrounding authorship of their design
The beginnings of soviet naval power: the flotilla leader Tashkent and her would-be successors
Przemyslaw Budzbon looks at the apparently surprising purchase of the flotilla leader Tashkent by the Soviet Union from Fascist Italy and the impact she had on subsequent Russian design and construction
Action offthe bosphorus, 10 may 1915
Toby Ewin examines the second major encounter between Russia’s powerful Black Sea Fleet and the Ottoman Empire’s naval forces, including the two newly-arrived modern German vessels, Goeben and Breslau
Suffren & duquesne: France’s first modern carrier escorts
Jean Moulin, and John Jordan present a detailed study of the first (and only) two ships of a programme of large escorts capable of both area air defence and anti-submarine warfare, the ‘missile frigates’ Suffren and Duquesne
The escort destroyers of the Matsu and Tachibana classes
Kathrin Milanovich examines the conception and execution of the IJN’s wartime programme to replace the numerous losses of ‘fleet’ destroyers with a simplified design intended for mass production
The making of an armed merchant cruiser: sms seeadler
Dirk Nottelmann provides some fresh insights into the story of one of the most famous auxiliary warships in history, the German sail-powered commerce raider Seeadler
The battleship Bouvet, martyr of the Dardanelles
Philippe Caresse concludes his study of the French battleships of the Flotte d'echantillons by focusing on Bouvet, sunk by a mine in less than a minute during the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles.
Mussolini’s caprices: the Italian midget submarines and elektroboote of1934-1943
Enrico Cernuschi looks at the development of the single-engine submarine in the Regia Marina between the wars
Fit for purpose? The royal navy’s fishery protection squadron, 1883-2023
Jon Wise examines fishery protection in the Royal Navy from the late 19th century to the present day
From Orel to Iwami
Stephen McLaughlin uses a variety of contemporary sources to attempt to sort out discrepancies in the historical record regarding the Russian battleship Orel’s conversion and service with the IJN as Iwami
Warship Notes
Reviews
Warship Gallery
John Jordan presents a series of images of major Soviet surface ships during the period 1960-1990