WWI Naval Bibliography
Articles in Warship International
Authors 'G' through 'Z'
Authors 'A' through 'F'
- Gaffen, Fred 75th Anniversary of The Naval Service
of Canada 1910-1985
number 2 1985.
- Gard, Bertil Scandinavian Coast Defense Ships -
Part I - Sweden
number 2 (spring) 1966.
Part II - Denmark
number 3 (summer) 1966.
Part III - Norway
number 2 (spring) 1967.
Letters: number 4 (fall) 1966, number 3 1973.
- Georgescu, Mihai Elisabeta
number 2 1984.
The story of a Roumanian cruiser.
- Goicoechea, J. M. The Cuban Navy 1902-1958 Part I
number 1 1997.
Part II
number 2 1997.
- Grazioli, Luciano The Armoured Cruiser Averof -
Birth of the Yugoslav Navy 1918-1941
number 4 1988.
- Greger, Dr. Rene Czechoslovakia's River Navy
Spring 1968.
- Greger, Rene Elisabeta and her Armament
number 2 1984.
- Greger, Dipl.-Ing Rene The Bulgarian Nadezda
number 2 1973.
- Greger, Rene The Mystery of the Austro-Hungarian
Submarine U-30: Some Facts, Observations and Speculation
number 1 1987.
Letters: number 4 1987.
- Greger, Dipl.-Ing Rene Yugoslav Naval Guns and the
Birth of the Yugoslav Navy 1918-1941
number 4 1987.
- Guiglini, Jean and Albert Moreau French Light Cruisers - the First
Light Cruisers of the 1922 Naval Program, Part I number 2 2002.
This first part, concerning the 8,000 ton cruisers Duguay-Trouin,
Lamotte-Picquet and Primauguet has a bit of information of their
descent from the planned cruisers of the 1914 programme.
- "Halyard" Losses of the Royal Italian Navy 1915-1918
number 1 (winter) 1966.
- Hadley, Walter C. Mimi and Toutou
number 2 1983.
War on Lake Tanganyika!
- Hough, Richard "The Chase" -- Goeben in the Mediterranean, 1914
number 4 (fall) 1969.
Letters: number 2 1971, number 4 1971, number 3 1972.
- Howland, Captain Vernon, RCN. HMS Kent
(1914-1915), Portsmouth to the Falkland Islands - Early Days
number 1 1998.
A very informative paper describing the cruiser actions of the
Battle of the Falkand Islands (8 December 1914), and the chase and
eventual destruction of SMS Dresden.
Letters: Number 4 1999 (actually a small paper dealing
with RN armoured cruiser evolution by K. D. McBride); Number 2 1999.
- Howland, Captain Vernon, RCN. Naval Radio - Introduction
and Development 1900-1920
number 2 2000.
A technical history, including a number of detailed
drawings of the actual equipment - including circuit diagrams.
- Hownam-Meek, R. S. S.;Harold Johnson, K. D. McBride, Christopher Wright
Target Ships, number 1 2002
An "Ask INFOSER" (question 8/01) answer, there is a wealth of information on the conversion
of old WW1-era warships into radio-controlled targets: Royal Navy, USN (especially),
Imperial Japanese Navy, Germany, Italy, France.
- Hownam-Meek, R. S. S.; Ulrich Jantzen; Harold Johnson;
R. D. Layman; Keith McBride; Henk Visser Loss of German
Light Cruiser Breslau number 1, 2000.
An answer in "Ask INFOSER" (to question 3/99), this is a very
detailed response with maps showing the fatal sortie of Breslau
and Goeben/Yavuz 20 January 1918.
- Jurens, W. R.Exterior Ballistics with Microcomputers
number 1 1984.
Though not specific to WW1, the math can still be used.
Letters: number 4 1984.
- Jurens, W. R.The Evolution of Battleship Gunnery in the
U.S. Navy, 1920-1945
number 3 1991.
Letters: number 4 1991.
- Jurens, W. R.Underwater Protection in Capital Ships
a Technical Approach
number 4 1985.
- Kemp, Paul and Peter Jung Five Broken Down B Boats -
British Submarine Operations in the Northern Adriatic 1915-1917
number 1 1989.
- Klar, John W. USS Stewart (DD-224) Design and Construction
number 4 1988.
Her Second World War Career is in a follow-on article in
number 2, 1989.
- Klimczyk, Tadeusz East European Museum Ships
number 4 1989.
The torpedo boat Druzki in Bulgaria is of the right
vintage.
- Lacroix, Dr. E.The Development of the 'A Class'
Cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy Part I
number 4 1977.
Though the bulk of this series deals with the evolution of
post-WW1 cruisers, there is some useful background information
on the earlier period.
Letters: number 2 1978, number 1 1984.
Part II number 1 1979.
Part III number 4 1979.
Part IV number 1 1981.
Part V number 4 1981.
Part VI number 3 1983.
Part VII number 3 1984.
- Layman, R. D. Air vs Sea in World War I
number 3 1982.
Letters: number 1 1983, number 3 1983.
- Layman, R. D. Furious and the Tondern Raid
number 4 1973.
Letters: number 2 1974.
- Layman, R. D. HMS Ark Royal-Pegasus
number 2 1976.
Letters: number 4 1976.
- Layman, R. D. Sparrows Among the Hawks:
Shipboard Aviation of the Smaller Navies, 1919-1939
number 2 1984.
Letters: number 1 1985, number 2 1985.
- Layman, R.D. The Shipboard Catapult
number 3, 1970.
- le Masson, Henri Some French Fast Battleships-
That Might Have Been
number 2 1985.
- le Masson, Henri The Complex Development of the
French Light Cruiser 1910-1926, Part I
number 4 1985.
Part II number 2 1986.
- le Masson, Henri The Lyon Class Battleships
number 1 1985.
Letters: number 1 1987.
- le Masson, Henri The Normandie Class Battleships
with Quadruple Turrets
number 4 1984.
- Lewis, Emanuel Raymond American Battleship Main Battery Armament:
The Final Generation
number 4 1976.
Letters: number 4 1976, number 1 1978, number 3 1978,
number 1 1979.
- Ley, Michael P. New Information on Russian Guns
number 1 1998.
Actually a letter rather than an article, it contains a great deal
of new information on Russian naval artillery. Further letters may
be found in number 3 1998.
- Macpherson, K. (editor) Turncoat Carriers
Fall, 1968.
- Marcon, Tullio Aviazione Della Regia Marina - The Story
of the Italian Naval Air Arm Spring 1967.
Letters: Summer 1967, Winter 1968, Spring 1968.
- McBride, K. D. Es and Super-Es
number 3 1996.
Letters: number 1 1997, number 2 1997.
- McBride, K. D. "HMS Kent"
number 4 1998.
This letter, refering to the article on HMS Kent
in NUmber 1, 1998, is actually a small paper describing the
evolution of the RN's armoured cruisers. Excellent!
- McBride, K. D. Seakeeping, Easter, 1916 Style
number 1 1990.
- McBride, K. D. The Dukes and the Warriors
number 4 1990.
- McBride, K. D. The Royal Navy 'Scout' Class of 1904-05
number 3 1994.
There is an addendum in number 1, 1995.
Letters: number 3 1995.
- Novik, Anton The Story of the Cruisers
Bremse and Brummer
number 3 (summer) 1969.
- O'Brien, Patrick J. A voyage into Oblivion?
number 4 1973.
The mysterious loss of the American collier Cyclops
in 1918.
Letters: number 3 1974, number 4 1974.
- Okun Nathan Armour and its Application to Warships-
Part 1
number 2 1976.
This is one of the best set of articles ever written on
the subject.
Part 2 number 2 1977.
Part 3 number 4 1978.
Letters: number 2 1979.
- Okun Nathan Face Hardened Armor
number 3 1989.
Letters: number 1 1990, number 3 1990, number 1 1991.
- Palmstierna, C. Swedish Torpedo Boats and Destroyers
Part 1- Torpedo Boats
number 4 1971.
- Podhorsky, Rene An Unknown Fact about the Russian
Refugee Fleet of 1920
number 1 (winter) 1966.
- Ransome, George HM Paddle Minesweepers of World War One
number 2 (spring) 1969.
Letters: number 4 (fall) 1969.
- Robbins, C. B. and O. T. Enqvist The Guns of the
General Alekseev
number 2 1995.
Letters: number 4 1995, number 1 1996.
- Roberts, Dr. Stephen The Thai Navy
number 3 1986.
Letters: number 1 1987, number 2 1987, number 3 1987,
number 2 1988, number 3 1988, number 4 1989.
- Robbins, Commander Charles B. and E. R. Lewis The
Chilean-American 12-inch Guns Number 2 2000, and Number 3 2003.
Very powerful railway guns that never actually made it
to France.
Letters: number 1 2001, number 2 2001.
- Scheina, Dr. Robert L. The New Peruvian Navy 18885-1976
number 3 1978.
- Schleihauf, William A Concentrated Effort: Royal Navy Gunnery
Practices at the End of the Great War number 2 1998
Both a look at the target practices undertaken during the First
World War, as well as a discussion of concentration fire.
- Schleihauf, William The Ancestral ASDIC number 3 2000.
A look at the first 'production' asdic set (ie sonar) installed
in an RN ship.
Letters: number 2, 2001 (dealing with names of RN destroyer classes).
- Schleihauf, William The Dumaresq and the Dreyer, Part I: number 1, 2001.
A monograph that looks at the functioning of the Dumaresq "calculator" and the
Dreyer Fire Control Table.
Part II: number 2, 2001.
Part III: number 3, 2001.
Letters: number 4 2002: Dr John Brooks has a letter which expands, and more
importantly, corrects, a few details in the series: must reading!
- Schleihauf, William The Restoration of HMS M-33
number 2 2000.
This WW1 monitor is being preserved as a memorial in Portsmouth.
- Schmalenbach, Paul German Navy Large Bore Guns
Operational Ashore During World War I
number 2 1983.
Letters: number 4 1983.
- Schmalenbach, Paul SMS BLUCHER
number 2 1971.
The design, career and loss of the first German "battlecruiser",
including some rarely-seen photographs.
- Schmalenbach, Paul The Genealogy of the Schnellboot
number 1 (winter) 1969.
Though strictly speaking this is a WW2 topic, there is some
useful information on the fast torpedo craft of WW1.
- Shiflett, Charles R. The Royal Navy and the Question of
Imperial Defense East of Suez, 1902-1914
number 4 1995.
Letters: number 2, 1996, number 4 1996.
- Sieche, Erwin F. Austria-Hungary's Last Naval Visit to the USA
number 2 1990.
Letters: number 4, 1990.
- Sieche, Erwin F. Austria-Hungary's Monarch Class
Coast Defense Ships number 3 1999.
In addition to being an excellent article on these ships, there
is much hard-to-find information on the Austro-Hungarian Navy from
the 1860's into 1918. Highly recommended!
- Sieche, Erwin F. Ex-Austro-Hungarian River Monitor
Leitha May Become the First Warship Museum in Central Europe
number 4 1996.
- Sieche, Erwin F. SMS Szent Istvan Hungaria's Only and
Ill-Fated Dreadnought
number 2 1991.
This article includes still photos from the film clip that
is seen so often on television.
Letters: number 2 1992.
- Sieche, Erwin F. The Szent Istvan Wreck
number 4 1997.
This excellent article describes the current state of the
wreck (sitting in c65 meters of water), and has some
underwater photography, including some in colour.
- Sienicki, Ignacy Polish River Monitors 1919-1939
number 1 1988.
- Simpson, Lloyd P. France's First Real Minelayers--
Cerbere and Pluton
number 3 (summer) 1969.
- Simpson, Lloyd P. HMAS SYDNEY
number 4, 1970.
- Simpson, Lloyd P. The Last of a Type
number 2 1973.
The story of the Bulgarian torpedo boat Smyeli.
Letters: number 2 1974, number 3 1974.
- Smith, Andrew The Turkish Scouts of 1914
number 4 1987.
- Snook, David British Naval Operations in the Black Sea
1918-1920 Part I
Letters: number 2, 1990.
number 1 1989.
Part II number 4 1989.
- Sokol, Anthony Austria-Hungary's Naval Building Projects
1914-1918
number 3 1978.
- Sokol, Anthony Austria-Hungary's Naval Building Projects
1914-1918, Part II- Destroyers and Motor Torpedo Boats
number 4 1982.
Letters: number 2, 1983.
- Stevenson, Dr. Gene C. Submarines of the Finnish Navy
number 1, 1986.
The introduction contains some information on German WW1 u-boat
development.
- Topliss, David The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904-1914
number 3 1988.
There is an addendum in number 1, 1995.
Letters: number 3, 1994.
- Trimingham, Derisley "27 Knotters" The Royal Navy's
Early Destroyers Spring 1967.
Letters: Spring, 1968, Summer 1968.
- Turrini, Alessandro Laurenti Type Submarines in the World's Navies
number 1 1995.
Letters: number 4 1995.
- van Dijk, Anthonie The Drawingboard Battleships for the
Royal Netherlands Navy Part I
number 4 1988.
Part II number 1 1989.
Part III number 4 1989.
- Vanterpool, Dr. Alan The Riachuelo
number 2 (spring) 1969.
- Vego, Milan The Yugoslav Navy 1918-41
number 4 1982.
Letters: number 2, 1983, number 3 1983.
- Vinogradov, Sergei E. Batleship Development in Russia
from 1905 to 1917
Chapter 1, Battleships in the Russian Naval Develpment Programs
1911-1914: Number 3, 1998.
Chapter 2, Russian Dreadnought Design Development 1908-1914: Number 2, 1999.
Chapter 3, Battleship Development in Russia from 1905 to 1917: Number 1, 2000.
Chapter 4, Naval Ordnance and Armor Manufacturing: Number 3, 2000.
A very important English-language work on the Imperial
Russian Navy.
Letters: number 1, 2000; number 1 2001.
- von Rauch, Georg Cruisers for Argentina
number 4 1978.
Letters: number 2 1979, number 3 1979.
- Weldon, D. G. HMS HOOD
number 2 1972.
Primarily technical details, with a good selection of
illustrations, including a few of her fitting-out which are
very rarely seen.
- Wernet, Dieter and Inge Wernet Maksim Gor'kii I:
A Recent Example of the Re-Use of Naval Turrets in Coast Defenses
number 1 1997.
- Wright, C. A Day at the New York Navy Yard: May 1st 1914
number 3 1987.
- Wright, C. A Photographic Memoir of the Imperial
Russian Navy
number 3 1987.
Photographs from the collection of the late Boris V. Drashpil.
Letters: number 3, 1988.
- Wright, C. Cruisers of the Imperial Russian Navy Part 2-
the Minn
number 3 1975.
Part 3 number 2 1976.
Part 4 number 1 1977.
Letters: number 3 1977, number 4 1979.
- Wright, C. Impressive Ships - the Story of Her Majesty's Cruisers, Blake and Blenheim,
number 1, 1970.
- Wright, Christopher C. (editor) Questions on the Effectiveness of US Navy Battleship Gunnery:
Notes on the Origins of US Navy Gun Fire Control System Range Keepers
Volume 41, Issue 1, Volume 41, Issue 3, Volume 42, Issue 1.
Letters: Volume 41, Issue 3, Volume 43, Issue 1.
This is an important and detailed multi-part article, describing in depth the origins of USN Fire Control-
primarily the Ford Range Keepers, and a discussion of the Pollen System.
- Wright, C. Soviet Cruisers Part 1
number 1 1978.
Letters: number 4 1978, number 1 1979, number 2 1979,
number 1 1980, number 3 1981.
- Wright, C. The Cuban Navy as Seen from the United States
number 2 1997.
- Wright, C. The French Naval Building Program of 1915
number 1 1980.
- Wright, Christopher (editor) The US Navy's Study of the Loss of Battleship Arizona
number 3 2002, number 4 2002, number 1 2003
Though most of this superb article describe events one war/one generation after the Great War, there is
much detail about the internal construction of Arizona, her gunnery, her guns and much else besides. Must reading
for anyone interested in this historic ship.
- Wright, C. Thrasher/G4 (SS-26): The U. S. Navy's
Laurenti Boat Part I
number 3 1995.
Part II number 4 1995.
Part III number 1 1996.
- Wright, C. and E. Fisher USS Albany and New Orleans-
the American Elswick-built units
number 4 1971.
Authors 'A' through 'F'
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