WARSHIP 2008

Features articles on the IJN carrier Hosho, the French prewar cruisers of the De Grasse class, small battleship designs, and the Battle of Calabria. This volume includes features on the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, postwar submarine development in the RN, and the Russian destroyers of the 7/7U class.

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This 30th anniversary volume of this perennially acclaimed annual maintains the well-established high standards of original research articles, news and reviews from the world of warship history.The 2008 annual has feature articles on the IJN carrier Hosho, the French prewar cruisers of the De Grasse class, small battleship designs, and the Battle of Calabria. It also presents features on the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, postwar submarine development in the RN, and the Russian destroyers of the 7/7U class. The Warship Notes section includes the bombing of HMS Iron Duke, Spanish naval guns, an unsolved mystery U-boat sinking from WWII, lost French naval archives, and the new Monitor & Merrimack museum.