This twenty-ninth volume of the perennially acclaimed annual maintains the well-established high standards of original research, interesting and unusual news, reviews, and much more from the world of warship history. Included in this edition are articles on the Iena disaster of 1906, the British attack on the German High Seas Fleet, the Baden trials, the Japanese Hatsuharu -class destroyers, the loss of the Novorossiisk, the Port Edgar destroyer base, a history of naval aviation in Italy, and the Victorian ship builder, Sir Nathaniel Barnaby.
John Jordan is a former teacher of modern languages. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and has coauthored a series of books on the French Navy.