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 Jane's
War At Sea
First published in 1897, Jane's All the Worlds Fighting Ships (later
shortened to Fighting Ships) established Jane's as the premier military
publisher in the world. For 100 years, it has stood as the definitive
guide to ship recognition and naval intelligence, and today this $300.00
publication is indispensable to more than 180,000 military and
government readers.
This centenary edition offers aficionados affordable access to Fighting
Ships extensive archives of data and artwork. In its pages are
photographs, descriptions, specifications, and schematics of the great
warships that shaped history and captured people's imaginations, like
the dreaded battleship Bismarck, the USS Ticonderoga, HMS Courageous,
the Yamato, and the USS Enterprise. From the heyday of the ironclad to
the era of the dreadnought battleships to the age of air power that made
the carrier rule supreme, from the wolfpack U-boats to the
ultra-stealthy nuclear boomers, this remarkable resource examines the
evolution in warship design that occurred as a result of technological
and tactical developments and reveals what the next generation of
warships will look like.
Featuring numerous articles by a fleet of leading naval officers and
historians, including Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach (ret.),
Jane's Fighting Ships, Centenary Edition is the ultimate reference for
all military buffs and anyone interested in naval affairs or maritime
history.
 US
Navy Ship Inventory
This electronic book on CD-ROM lists all active and inactive U.S. Navy
vessels, featuring 444 active "In Commission" and "Local Defense and
Miscellaneous Support Forces" vessels, 1863 Service Craft, and a full
listing of inactive vessels and their status. The listings are presented
in numerous formats and are cross-referenced. Cross references include
Alphabetical by Name, Status, Maritime Administration, Naval Defenses
Reserve Fleet, Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force, Homeport, Ship Custodian
Arrangement, Planning Yard (Hull) Arrangement, Ships Donated as a Museum
and Memorial, Prepositioning Force (PREPO), Maritime Prepositioning Ship
(MPS), Status Summaries, and by Coast.
Each vessel is covered by a Fact File. Each Fact File contains
specifications including Overall Length, Waterline Length, Extreme Beam,
Waterline Beam, Maximum Navigational Draft, Draft Limit, Light
Displacement, Full Displacement, and Dead Weight. Each Fact File also
features a Ship History with a Builder listing, the Keel, Launch, and
Delivery Dates, the Age of the vessel, and its Status.
The Ship Availability Database (SAV) contains historical information on
US Naval vessels and completed shipyard availabilities. Shipyard
availability is defined as a period of time that a ship is scheduled to
undergo construction, critical repairs or maintenance, modernization,
conversion, or other work that typically can only be accomplished in a
shipyard. The SAV database contains approximately 15,000 completed
availabilites from 1913 to 2001.
Over 10,000 pages of text and photos are presented in the easy-to-use
Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for military or ship
enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home
reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general
reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to
uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or
printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast
archives of important government information that might otherwise remain
inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are
reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on
Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the
CD.
 Jane's
Submarines
The highly respected journalist and author, Robert Hutchinson,
follows the development of the submarine as a weapon of war from its
earliest designs in the 16th Century to the last vessels at sea today.
Included are text, tables, illustrations and photographs of: The first
submarines World War I designs Inter-war designs and disasters World War
II operations ’Cold War’ submarine design and operations The latest
submarine designs Submarine accidents through the years, including
details on the Russian ‘Kursk’ that sank in 2000. Acclaimed naval artist
Tony Gibbons has provided illustrations for many of the major
‘landmarks’ for designs from 1776 through to the present day.
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