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voor de liefhebbers van scheepsgeschiedenis :)

Jane's Fighting Ships 1919

by PARKES, (Surgeon-Lieut. O[scar]) & PRENDERGAST (Maurice) [eds.]
Profusely illustrated. 
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An extremely important issue of this annual, "The labour incurred in preparing this Edition has been exceptionally heavy; we doubt if any issue of our Annual has occasioned so much anxiety. The Editors have had to deal with large masses of information, withheld from publication by the belligerent Naval Powers since 1914. They have also had to investigate the demobilisation of the War Fleets to a peace footing. The indeterminate state of the late Enemy Navies, and the chaotic conditions of the Russian Fleet, have presented very perplexing problems." [From the Preface]. Includes a special article on the impact of the War on British Naval Construction and the "most complete compendium" of War Losses "ever presented".

Thnaks to Fairwater :)