It's the time of year when the only annual that I always buy – WARSHIP – is published.
The current edition of WARSHIP is the forty-first volume to be published, and it contains the following:
One item in Warship Notes that caught my eye was the proposal to convert HMS Belfast into an Amphibious Transport and Assault Ship. This would have involved removing her rearmost triple 6-inch turrets and replacing them with a flight deck and hanger for at least four Wessex-type helicopters, and accommodation for two companies of infantry. Provision was also to be made for the ship to carry four LCAs on davits abreast of the two funnels. Although the conversion was never undertaken, it makes an interesting comparison with the conversions of HMS Tiger and HMS Blake.
Yet again, an excellent publication ... and I will be ordering next year's edition as soon as its detail are released!
WARSHIP 2019 is edited by John Jordan (with the assistance of Stephen Dent) and published by Osprey Publications (ISBN 978 1 4728 3595 6).
The current edition of WARSHIP is the forty-first volume to be published, and it contains the following:
- Editorial
- Armed Merchant Cruise: The Conversion of HMS Kanimbla, 1939 by Peter Cannon
- The French Battleship Brennus by Philippe Caress
- The Genesis of the Six-Six Fleet by Hans Lengerer
- The Rise of the Brown Curtis Turbine by Ian Johnston
- Battlecruiser Tiger: The Arrangement of the Main Engines by Dr Brian Newman
- In Aurora's Shadow: The Russian Cruisers of the Diana Class by Stephen McLaughlin
- Project 1030: A Nuclear Attack Submarine for the Italian Navy by Michele Cosentino
- The 340mm Coast Defence Battery at Cape Cépet by John Jordan
- Powder Magazine Explosions on Japanese Warships by Kathrin Milanovich
- Beyond the Kaiser: The IGN's Destroyers and Torpedo Boats after 1918 by Aidan Dodson
- Early British Iron Armour by David Boursnell
- Australia's First Destroyers by Mark Briggs
- North Sea Partners: The British and Dutch Navies in the Cold War Era by Jon Wise
- USS Lebanon (AG-2): A Jack of Several Trades by A D Baker III
- Warship Notes
- Vickers Cruiser Design No.866: An Alternative to the 'Country' - With a Japanese Connection by John Jordan
- The Helicopter Cruiser HMS Belfast by Conrad Waters
- Berthing HMS Victorious After Reconstruction by David Hobbs
- A's and A's
- Reviews
- Warship Gallery
- A series of previously unpublished photographs of the inter-war Polish Navy presented by Przemyslaw Budzbon
One item in Warship Notes that caught my eye was the proposal to convert HMS Belfast into an Amphibious Transport and Assault Ship. This would have involved removing her rearmost triple 6-inch turrets and replacing them with a flight deck and hanger for at least four Wessex-type helicopters, and accommodation for two companies of infantry. Provision was also to be made for the ship to carry four LCAs on davits abreast of the two funnels. Although the conversion was never undertaken, it makes an interesting comparison with the conversions of HMS Tiger and HMS Blake.
Yet again, an excellent publication ... and I will be ordering next year's edition as soon as its detail are released!
WARSHIP 2019 is edited by John Jordan (with the assistance of Stephen Dent) and published by Osprey Publications (ISBN 978 1 4728 3595 6).
Interesting
ReplyDeleteGeordie an Exiled FoG,
DeleteI've been buying this since 1977, and it has become a very useful repository of historical information.
All the best,
Bob