Warship 2025

At about this time of year, I begin to look forward to receiving my annual copy of WARSHIP … and this year's issue was delivered on Thursday.

This issue was edited by John Jordan, and contains the following articles:

• Editorial
• The Reconstruction of the Battlefleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy between the wars: Part 1 by Hans Lengerer
• The 'Black Gang': The development of Torpedo Boats in the Imperial German Navy (Part I)  by Dirk Nottelmann
• The Twin 6in Mark XXI Turret by Peter Cannon
• The 'H'-class Coastal Submarines of the Royal Danish Navy 1936-1950 by Tom Wismann
• Russia's Battlecruiser Design Competition of 1911 by Stephen McLaughlin
• The IJN Protected Cruisers of the Chikuma class by Kathrin Milanovich
• The 300-tonnes: The first French Torpedo Boat Destroyer by John Jordan
• Italian designs for Monitors and Battlecruisers during the interwar years by Michele Cosentino
• The beginnings of Soviet Naval Power: The 'S'-class Submarines by Przemyslaw Budzbon
• The German Flak Ships: Part II: The former Dutch and Danish hulls by Aidan Dobson and Dirk Nottelmann
• Warship Notes
• The Protection System of the French Battleships of the Second World War by John Jordan
• HMS Agamemnon as a radio-controlled target ship by Cdr Martin Marks RN (Ret), OBE, BSc (Eng)
• The Faidherbe and the Marchand Expedition by Ian Sturton
• Writing on Naval History: Some notes for beginners by Conrad Waters
• A's and A's
• Naval Books of the Year
• Warship Gallery
• Herbert Charles Sparrow, Royal Marines, 1927-1930

It was great to see that the second part of The German Flak Ships series of articles that was originally going to be included in 2024's volume has been included in this one. I have been looking forward to reading this as this topic is of particular interest for me.

That said, the rest of the articles are all of great interest to me and I know that I will have many enjoyable hours reading them.

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WARSHIP 2025 was edited by John Jordan, assisted by Stephen Dent, and published in 2025 by Osprey Publishing (ISBN 978 1 4728 6854 1).