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2015 Issues of Warship International
Volume 52 Issue 4 - December 2015
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From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts - The Development of the German Navy, 1864-1918 - Part
6B: The Great Step Forward
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Capital ships of the Royal Italian Navy, 1860-1918 - Part 2
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The HMS Dauntless (D 33) shown here during a visit to Boston on 21 October 2012. This
photograph is copyright and through the courtesy of our member James Flynn
Volume 52 Issue 3 - September 2015
Feature Articles
The Career of the Imperial Japanese Navy Patrol Boat No. 102; International Fleet Review at the
Opening of the Kiel Canal, 20 June 1895
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Repair work underway during 1943 on the former U.S. Navy destroyer Stewart (DD-224) at Surabaya.
Painting by Mr. Matsunosuke Furushima, published 25 June 1954 in Daitoua Sensou Shashinshi
[”Pictorial History of the Pacific War”] by Fuji Shoen publisher, Vol 2. Courtesy Toshio Tamura
Volume 52 Issue 2 - June 2015
Feature Articles
From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts - The Development of the German Navy 1864-1918 Part 6A - The
Great Step Forward
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Westfalen during the skirmishes against British destroyers in the night from 31 May to 1 June, while
leading the German fleet back to Horns Reef. Painting by Claus Bergen. Nottelmann collection
Volume 52 Issue 1 - March 2015
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Note on High Speed Destroyers’ Maneuverability
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Views from the Career of Soviet Destroyer Bravyy
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The Royal Canadian Navy Issues Details on Retirement of Ships
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Three Unusual and Impressive Artworks
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USS Terror and her family - Part 2 The Netlayers: USS Monitor and class
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British Navy Facing the Future
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HMS Queen Elizabeth (R 08), the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers.
This vessel is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy. The ship was christened by
Queen Elizabeth II on 4 July 2014 and is scheduled to commission in early 2017. This
nighttime photo was taken at Rosslyn, U.K. on 13 August 2014 and is copyright and through
the courtesy of our member Reinhard Kramer
Volume 53 Issue 1 - March 2016
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USS Terror and her family - Part 2. The Netlayers: USS Monitor and class
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LIfe in the Slow Lane - Some Thoughts on Minelayer and Netlayer Evolution
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Caspian Sea Campaign - Part I: First Phase - 1918
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USS Nutmeg (AN-33) tending icy anti-submarine nets in a Newfoundland harbor, circa 1944-1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #: 80-G-K-1544 (Color).
An article in this issue completes our coverage of the U.S. Navy’s planned four large netlayers -- much
larger than Nutmeg seen here -- which in the end served in an entirely different role.
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Volume 54 Issue 4 - December 2017
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Torpedo Boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy: Part III
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Capital Ships of the Royal Italian Navy - Part IV: Dreadnought Battleships
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A magnificent bows-on view of the Royal Italian Navy’s Leonardo da Vinci
2017 Issues of Warship International
2016 Issues of Warship International
Volume 54 Issue 1 - March 2017
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Navy Days in Den Helder, 2013
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CSS Teaser
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Coast Guards of the World
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Torpedo Boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy Part 1
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HNLMS De Ruyter is the third De Zeven Provincien class air-defense and command frigate (LCF) of the Royal
Netherlands Navy. She was laid down in 2000, launched in 2002, and commissioned in 2004. She has two
roles: to command operations and deployment of the Royal Netherlands Navy, and the Netherlands Maritime
Force (NL-MARFOR). Photograph copyright and courtesy of our member Jasper van Raemdonck.
Volume 54 Issue 2 - June 2017
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Torpedo Boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy Part II
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More on the Career of the Imperial Japanese Navy Patrol Boat 102
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USS Kearsage (BB-5)
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The Portuguese Navy frigate Vasco da Gama (F 330) shown here at the harbor of Valetta, Malta on 24 February
2006. The ship is named after the famous Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. The ship was LD, 2 February
1989; builder, B&V, Hamburg; launched, 26 June 1989; commissioned, 18 January 1991. Photograph is from the
collection of our member Leo van Ginderen
Volume 54 Issue 3 - September 2017
Feature Articles
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From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Navy 1864-1918 Part VIII:
Consolidation of continuous crisis?
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A painting by Alexander Kircher showing the brightly lit Friedrich der Grosse in company of quite a
fictitious TB and a Light Cruiser. Nottelmann collection
Volume 53 Issue 2 - June 2016
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From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts - The Development of the German Navy, 1864-1918
Part 7. “Political Enforcements”
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Who else than Claus Bergen - the “Artist of the Battle of Jutland” - could have been asked to produce a
remembrance on the summit of Thuringen’s career. During the night-fighting around midnight she
was mainly responsible for the destruction of the armored cruiser Black Prince which is shown here -
by far too close, even if the distance is said to have been down to 1,000m. Nottleman collection.
Volume 53 Issue 3 - September 2016
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From Chesapeake Bay to Manila Bay: Part 1
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The Caspian Campaign - Part II: 1919-1920
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This photograph illustrates a painting of battleships of the Imperial Russian Fleet. It is titled
“Battleships of Black See Fleet - 1916.” The painting is desplayed in The Russian Naval Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia. There is no information as to the name of the ship or the artist. Photograph was
taken and is through the courtesy of our member Erwin F. Sieche.
Volume 53 Issue 4 - December 2016
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John Regina’s Tour
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Capital Ships of the Italian Royal Navy 1860-1918 Part III - Pre-Dreadnought Battleships
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From Chesapeake Bay to Manila Bay: Part II
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Colorized photograph of the Italian Regian Margherita at anchor:
http://blog.livedor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives
Volume 58 Issue 4 - December 2021
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The General Boards’s Washington Naval Treaty “Yard Stick”
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“A Small Margin to Go to Sea With”: Alban Stimers and the Union Navy’s Light-Draft Monitors,
Part II
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The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer Oscar Austin (DDG-79) underway on 21 August 2000 off
Yorktown, Virginia -- two days after commissioning. Photograph by Mr. Bill Clarke, a long time INRO
member (see W.I. Vol. 58 (2021) No.1:9 for a remembrance of him by Arthur D. Baker III.) The lead ship
of the “Flight HA” variant of the numerous Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class. An introductory description
of this variant can be found in CDR Alan G. Maiorano’s “The Right Ship,” U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings July 1994:35-39.
Volume 58 Issue 3 - September 2021
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The Greece-Turkey Naval Protocol of 1930
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THe Sokol Class Torpedo Boats in Finnish Service
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“A Small Margin to Go to Sea WIth”: Alban Stimers and the Union Navy’s Light-Draft Monitors,
Part 1
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The Deployment of the French Station Battleship Turenne 1885-1890
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The new British aircraft carrier Prince of Wales returning to Portsmought, UK on 26 May, 2021.
Photograph by Mr. Derek Fox, taken from the Pinnacle Tower, recently reopened to the public after
being closed because of the virus.
Volume 58 Issue 2 - June 2021
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Canonicus at Jamestown, 1907
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My Flying Dutchman of New York Harbor
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“Evening of August 15, 1945, off Japan -- Assembly of the Third Fleet -- THe End of the War” (1945). An oil
painting by the late William A. Lewis (1918-2020), a longtime INRO member. This view is as seen from aboard
the aircraft carrier Shangri-La (CV-38), which ship he then was serving aboard, looking aft from up on the island.
Volume 58 Issue 1 - March 2021
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The Resurrection of Landing Craft Tank 7074
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The GIbbs & Cox Design “D” Battleship for the USSR
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Hudson Fulton Naval Celebration, part II
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THe Taiwanese frigate Yi Yang, formelrly the U.S. frigate Valdez (FF-1096) seen at 0845 on 15 July 1999 on the
York River, VA, passing the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station en route to sea. Photograph by William H. Clarke,.
A longtime INRO memeber, Mr. Clarke passed away in September 2020; see a remembrance of him by A. D. Bakker
III in this issue.
2021 Issues of Warship International