naval construction

Warship 2022 is an annual production by Osprey publishing. The work is edited by John Jordan the naval author but he also draws on a host of talent including Hans Lengerer and Conrad Waters. The hardback publication is a series of twelve naval articles on subjects ranging from medium flight...

Our generation would readily assume the cruiser is a naval fixture and fitting. In fact the cruiser as we know it only emerged in the late 1860s as iron hulls supplanted timber. Until then there were battleships of the line, frigates ,corvettes etc of various rates and a plethora of sloops...