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Hello all, just got WPO and am enjoying it tons. My thanks to the designers!

Since I had no clue about the hardware that WPO showcases (especially the ships), I spent an hour tonight searching for information about ships and reading them. These are the sites I came up with:

http://www.friesian.com/dreadnot.htm
http://hazegray.org/navhist/
http://warships1.com/US/US_battleships.htm
http://www.combinedfleet.com/senkan.htm (mainly WWII oriented, but still some good stuff)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sh ... tates_Navy (tedious as hell to sort through, but lots of stuff there)
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/ (many broken links unfortunately)

Anybody else have any good ones? I'm especially looking for information on cruisers, destroyers, and aircraft of the era.

Hopefully I'll see you guys in a PBEM once I figure out what the hell I'm doing. [:)]

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Interesting USN pub I found http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/yangtze.html

The two online resources I use most often are :

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/index_weapons.htm

and

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/battleships3.htm

But Conways gets a lot of use, as does Jentschura ( these are of the older style "offline" resources ! )

I'm bumping this, since I cannot find any info on Dutch, French, or Chinese vessels for this time period.
In fact there seems to be a dearth of internet info on warships during this period in general.
Can anyone recommend some good books on the subject? I have, and recommend Jane's "Battleships of the 20th Century".
It's a nice over view of Battleships of the major nations (including some "never weres"). I'd like to find something pertaining to the "minor" navies. Also something which covers cruisers, DD's, and submarines would be nice. Thanks!

Like jwilkerson just mentioned... Conways'.

Go to Amazon and search for Conway's all the world's fighting ships. There are 3 volumes - 1860-1905, 1906-1921, 1922-1946 - that may be of interest to WPO players... The books are costly but very, very useful.

Oh darn, I had to look at it out of curiousity ------ now I have them coming in the mail. But it was only 2 volumes 1906 to 1921 and 1922 to 1946.[:D]

I got 1906-1921 (arrived in 3 days) and the other two en route...

Japanese have quite a few old ships so 1860-1905 is almost a must. Especially if one ponders, what if Britain refused to build all those post-1906 ships for Japan and Japanese had to start raising sunk hulks of Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars =)

Britain would be unlikely to refuse, the Alliance between Japan and Brtain meet the needs of both nations ( as alliances usually do - until they don't any more - and then they are dissolved ) Britain got to concentrate her Navy closer to European waters to offset rising German power as Kaiser Bill built the Tirpitz navy ... and Japan got ships and instruction from England making her within just a few years one of the most powerful navies on the planet. The IJN almost lilterally "fell out of the sky" between 1890 and 1905 ...

Even a Japanese attack on the US would strain Japanese/British relations and would not be a wise move for the Japanese ... Germany or France or China would be more likely if someone had to be fought ...

Thanks for the info. I was looking at Conway's reference books. I guess wifey will understand the importance of spending that kind of money. [:D]

Watch auctions carefully. Once in a while you can get one of those half-price - it's all about how bad you want it and how soon. I landed the 1922-1946 for only 47, new.