Warship 2025

The 2025 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.

For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, Warship combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more – maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which the annual has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.

This year's edition includes features on France's first destroyers, the turn-of-the-century 300-tonne type; Denmark's H-class submarines of World War II; Italy's proposed battlecruiser designs; the Imperial Japanese Navy's Chikuma-class protected cruisers; Soviet S-class submarines; and the first of a series on Imperial Germany's torpedo boats and destroyers.

Table of Contents

• The Reconstruction of the Battle Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy Between the Wars: Part I
• The 'Black Gang': The Development of Torpedo Boats in the Imperial German Navy: Part I
• The Twin 6in Mk XXI Turret
• The Danish Submarines of the 'H' Class
• Russia's Battlecruiser Design Competition of 1911
• The IJN Protected Cruisers of the Chikuma Class
• The 300-Tonnes: The First French Torpedo Boat Destroyer
• Italian Designs for Monitors and Battlecruisers During the Interwar Years
• The Beginnings of Soviet Naval Power: The Submarines of the 'S' Class
• The German Flak Ships Part II: The ex-Dutch and Danish Hulls
• HMS Agamemnon as a Radio-controlled Target Ship – Martin Marks
• The Faidherbe and the Marchand Expedition – Ian Sturton
• The Protection of French Battleships of the Second World War – John Jordan
• Writing on Naval History: Some Notes for Beginners – Conrad Waters
• A's & A's
• Naval Books of the Year
• The Royal Navy in China and the Middle East, 1927–30; the photographs of Royal Marine Herbert Sparrow (introduced and captioned by Stephen Dent).