Extracts from Brassey's Naval Annual

A word of warning: much of the technical information shown is quite accurate, but Brassey's was published (like Jane's Fighting Ships) using "available" information. Considerations of secrecy were different back then, but nevertheless, all navies kept much hidden away.

Click on each entry below to start that section:

• 1888-1889 Warship Plans
  • British Warships
  • British Merchant Ships
  • Argentine Republic
  • Austrian
  • Brazilian
  • Chilean
  • Chinese
  • Danish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Netherlands
  • Portugese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Turkish
  • American
• 1890 Armour Trial Reports
• 1894 Ordnance
• 1895 Armour Review
• 1898:
  • Armour
  • Ordnance
• 1899:
  • Armour
  • Ordnance
• 1901:
  • Armour
  • Gun Mountings and Gun Penetration
  • HMS Belleisle Trials
  • Ordnance
• 1902:
  • Armour and Ordnance - Introduction
  • Armour Plate and Projectile Trial Reports
  • Attack and Protection Data
  • Gunnery Tables
  • Rate of Fire and Accuracy Data
• 1904:
  • Engineering Review
  • Sir William White's Review of Armour and Warship Evolution
• 1905:
  • Armour and Projectile Review
  
  
• 1913: Armour and Ordnance
  • Frontspiece (and drawings of US California class armoured cruisers)
  • (general progress)
  • (range transmitters, spotting, fire control, "Mr Pollen's Invention")
  • (Vicker's rate of change clock, Dumaresq clock, Director Firing)
  • (heavy guns, foreign advances)
  • (disposition of guns, triple turrets)
  • (attack of armour, life of the gun)
  • (propellants and erosion, guns and projectiles)
  • (torpedoes, projectiles, fuses, armour, cast steel armour)
  • (Foreign Powers)
  • Brassey's Annual 1913, pps 370-520
    
    Page 372 (projectiles, armour, anti-aircraft weapons, United States)
    Page 378 (France)
    Page 382 (Germany)
    Page 386 (Italy)
    Page 388 (Austria-Hungary)
    Page 390 (A-H, table of British rifled ordnance)
    Page 392 (British rifled ordnance continued)
    Page 394 (Austrian + Danish naval ordnance)
    Page 396 (Dutch + French naval ordnance)
    Page 398 (French + Italian naval ordnance)
    Page 400 (Norwegian + Russian naval ordnance)
    Page 402 (Spanish + Swedish naval ordnance)
    Page 404 (US naval ordnance, table of Elswick BL + QF guns and howitzers)
    Page 406 (Vickers Sons & Maxims guns + mountings, Coventry Ordnance Works guns)
    Page 408 (Beardmore guns, Schneider guns)
    Page 410 (Krupp + Bethleham Steel guns)
    Page 412 (Bofors guns + unit conversion tables)

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