Warship 1997-1998 - Volume XXI

Warship is an annual publication devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. The  contributors are respected authorities, and so detailed and accurate information is the keynote of all the articles - fully supported by plans, tables and photographs.

Volume XXI includes:
RULING THE WAVES
Cohn Jones discusses the important and impressive world cruise of the Royal Navy's Flying Squadron in 1869-70.
KITE BALLOONS IN THE US NAVY 1915-22
R D Layman provides a full account of the US Navy's use of kite balloons during and after the First World War.
ARMSTRONGS' UNBUILT WARSHIPS
Peter Brook studies the warship designs of this famous shipbuilder which never got past the development stage.
CRUISERS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY: THE 1939-42 PROGRAMMES
George Moore describes the Royal Navy's urgent efforts during the Second World War to design large cruisers.
SIR STANLEY V GOODALL, KCB, OBE, RCNC
The career of one of the most illustrious and talented of all the Royal Navy's naval architects, Stanley Goodall, Director of Naval Construction during the Second World War, is the subject of David K Brown's article.
THE GERMAN NAVY FROM VERSAILLES TO HITLER
After the disastrous end to the First World War, the German Navy lay in tatters. George Paloczi-Horvath examines its struggle to rebuild a fleet, handicapped by the crippling provisions of the Versailles Treaty.
THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH 8,000-TONNE CRUISERS OF 1922
John Jordan traces the development of the Duguay-Trouin class, the Marine Nationale's first interwar cruiser types, from the abortive Lamotre-Picquet class of 1914.
THE CANADIAN NAVAL AVIATION EXPERIENCE: THE SHIPS, AIRCRAFT AND OPERATIONS, 1944-1969. PART 4
HMCS BONA VENTURE: LAST OF THE BREED
In the concluding article of a four-part series, Thomas G Lynch charts the history of the Royal Canadian Navy's
last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonavenrure.
OPERATION 'DEADLIGHT'
David Miller gives an account of the Royal Navy's attempts to scuttle the German Navy's surrendered fleet of U-boats towards the end of the Second World War.
GERMAN TA TORPEDO BOATS AT WAR
Pierre Hervieux looks in detail at the operations of the torpedo boats taken over by the Kriegsmarine from other navies during the Second World War.
HMS TIRADE AND THE SINKING OF UC-55
M W Williams focuses on an obscure destroyer v. submarine incident which took place off the Shetland Islands during the First World War.
THE TRAGIC LOSS OF HMS CURACOA
Peter Kelly recounts the tragic events which unfolded when the liner RMS Queen Mary rammed the Royal Navy anti-aircraft cruiser that was escorting her off the coast of Northern Ireland in 1942.
'EIGHT SIX-INCH GUNS IN PAIRS', THE LEANDER AND SYDNEY CLASS CRUISERS
Keith McBride details the design, construction and Second World War operations of these hard-worked Royal Navy light cruisers.
WARSHIP NOTES
Short articles on interesting aspects of warship history, and notices of forthcoming events.
NAVAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NAVAL YEAR IN REVIEW
A summary of the year's significant naval events and developments, compiled by Antony Preston.
WARSHIP GALLERY
A section devoted to unusual and rare pictures and details of warships in war and in peace.