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ÄDA - DÄP (
talk·contribs) Submarines, in general, U-boats in particular - and their targets. Also, German navies through the ages.
Mareklug (
talk·contribs) So-far,
Ford Island rewrite with 2 others. But, hey, I had the massive massively illustrated hardback WWII at Sea, in Polish, as a kid. As well as "Warfare at Sea in Antiquity" or some such, tambien. So, who can tell... I am not Walking Encyclopedia for nuthin'.
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good,
A-Class, and
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The following list is annotated and commented in an attempt to provide useful guides for editors. Each title is classified as belonging to any of the following categories:
(P) Popular histories - these give an accessible, easily understood introduction to the subject but can be unclear on their sources. Good for providing contextual information in a specialist article, less so for detail and in asserting interpretations of primary sources.
(A) Academic studies - these make critical use of sources to provide an interpretation. These should be the mainstay of article referencing.
(C) Classic studies - sources of significance in the development of understanding of the subject, but often superseded by more recent research. Can be used for referencing but, unless talking about the author's theories directly, should preferably be checked against more modern works.
Europe and North America
Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Baltic During the Sailing-Ship Period 1522-1850. Gilbert-Wood, London. 1910 (C)
Anderson, Roger Charles, Oared Fighting Ships: From Classical Times to the Coming of Steam. London. 1962. (C)
A brief general history of oared vessels of war. Good for a general overview, but is necessarily less specific on details and tends to give undue focus on some regions and periods.
Glete, Jan, Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500-1680. (2 volumes) Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm. 1993. (A)
A general overview of naval warfare in connection with political history. Contains a set of tables that summarizes the number of ships and approximate total tonnage of all major and minor navies throughout the period, including statistics on the extent of ship building.
Glete, Jan, Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe. Routledge, London. 2000.
ISBN0-415-21455-6(A)
Guilmartin, John F. (2002). Galleons and Galleys. London: Cassell & Co.
ISBN0304352632.
Hattendorf, John B. & Unger, Richard W. (editors), War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2002.
ISBN0-85115-903-6[1](A)
Anthology by academic historians focused on a number of different topics. Includes discussion of academic analysis of naval warfare, including a general criticism of the concept of "sea control" as introduced by
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Lewis, Archibald Ross & Runyan, Timothy J., European Naval and Maritime History, 300–1500. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 1985.
ISBN0-253-20573-5
Rodgers, William Ledyard, Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries: A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. 1939. (C)
Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853. Liverpool. 1952 (C)
Crowley, Roger (2011). City of Fortune; How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire. London: Faber & Faber.
ISBN9780571245949. (P)
Crowley, John (2008). Empires of the Sea:The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580. London: Faber & Faber.
ISBN9780571232307. (P)
Guilmartin, John Francis, Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, London. 1974.
ISBN0-521-20272-8(A)
Highly influential study of naval warfare in the Mediterranean in the 16th century, especially in debunking the idea that galleys were immediately made obsolete by the invention of naval artillery.
Pryor, John H., Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1991. 0-521-42892-0
[2](A)
Mostly focused on development of ship technology, including summaries of various academic debates on the construction of various Mediterranean vessels.
English and British navy
Hanson, Neil (2003). The Confident Hope of a Miracle. London: Corgi.
ISBN0552149756.(P)
Loades, David, The Tudor Navy: An administrative, political and military history. Scolar Press, Aldershot. 1992.
ISBN0-85967-922-5(A)
Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660–1649. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1997.
ISBN0-393-04579-X
Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Command of the Ocean : A naval History of Britain 1649-1815. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2004.
ISBN0-393-06050-0
Part of a three-volume series of British naval history. Very comprehensive, well-researched and meticulously references and covers social, political and even some cultural aspects of naval history. The bibliography is annotated by the author with comments on the strength and/or weaknesses of various works in the field.
Ships and ship types
Gardiner, Robert & Unger, Richard W., Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1994.
ISBN0-85177-560-8(A)
Gardiner, Robert & Morrison, John S. (editors), The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. Conway Maritime, London, 1995.
ISBN0-85177-554-3(A)
An anthology written by numerous authorities in the field. The focus is mostly on warfare and particularly ship construction and design. Some of the contributions are quite technical.
Gardiner, Robert & Lavery, Brian (editors), The Line of Battle: Sailing Warships 1650-1840. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1992.
ISBN0-85177-561-6(A)
Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN0-87021-101-3.
OCLC12613723.
Biographies
Sweetwater, Jack, The Great Admirals: Command at Sea 1587-1945. U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis. 1997.
ISBN0-87021-229-X pp. 112-29
[3]
South American navies
Scheina, Robert L. (1987). Latin America: A Naval History 1810–1987. Naval Institute Press.
ISBN0-87021-295-8. (A)
Welcome to the maritime warfare task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the
main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the
task force participants below.
Maritime combat tactics, naval warfare strategies, weaponry, terminology, and technology related to maritime warfare.
Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Maritime-task-force=yes or Maritime=y to the {{
WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the
project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into
Category:Maritime warfare task force articles.
If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia for several months.
If you wish to identify yourself as a participant of this task force, simply copy and paste this userbox to your user page: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Maritime warfare task force}}
Inactive members
This is a list of people who are members of the project but haven't edited Wikipedia for a year. If you find your name on this list, feel free to move it back to the list of active participants when you return to editing.
Inactive members list
ÄDA - DÄP (
talk·contribs) Submarines, in general, U-boats in particular - and their targets. Also, German navies through the ages.
Mareklug (
talk·contribs) So-far,
Ford Island rewrite with 2 others. But, hey, I had the massive massively illustrated hardback WWII at Sea, in Polish, as a kid. As well as "Warfare at Sea in Antiquity" or some such, tambien. So, who can tell... I am not Walking Encyclopedia for nuthin'.
The table to the right shows the current
article assessment statistics for this task force.
A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found
here.
With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a significant number of
good,
A-Class, and
featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by
JL-Bot (
talk·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is
tagged or
categorized (e.g.
Category:Maritime warfare task force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See
WP:RECOG for configuration options.
The following list is annotated and commented in an attempt to provide useful guides for editors. Each title is classified as belonging to any of the following categories:
(P) Popular histories - these give an accessible, easily understood introduction to the subject but can be unclear on their sources. Good for providing contextual information in a specialist article, less so for detail and in asserting interpretations of primary sources.
(A) Academic studies - these make critical use of sources to provide an interpretation. These should be the mainstay of article referencing.
(C) Classic studies - sources of significance in the development of understanding of the subject, but often superseded by more recent research. Can be used for referencing but, unless talking about the author's theories directly, should preferably be checked against more modern works.
Europe and North America
Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Baltic During the Sailing-Ship Period 1522-1850. Gilbert-Wood, London. 1910 (C)
Anderson, Roger Charles, Oared Fighting Ships: From Classical Times to the Coming of Steam. London. 1962. (C)
A brief general history of oared vessels of war. Good for a general overview, but is necessarily less specific on details and tends to give undue focus on some regions and periods.
Glete, Jan, Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500-1680. (2 volumes) Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm. 1993. (A)
A general overview of naval warfare in connection with political history. Contains a set of tables that summarizes the number of ships and approximate total tonnage of all major and minor navies throughout the period, including statistics on the extent of ship building.
Glete, Jan, Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe. Routledge, London. 2000.
ISBN0-415-21455-6(A)
Guilmartin, John F. (2002). Galleons and Galleys. London: Cassell & Co.
ISBN0304352632.
Hattendorf, John B. & Unger, Richard W. (editors), War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2002.
ISBN0-85115-903-6[1](A)
Anthology by academic historians focused on a number of different topics. Includes discussion of academic analysis of naval warfare, including a general criticism of the concept of "sea control" as introduced by
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Lewis, Archibald Ross & Runyan, Timothy J., European Naval and Maritime History, 300–1500. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 1985.
ISBN0-253-20573-5
Rodgers, William Ledyard, Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries: A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. 1939. (C)
Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853. Liverpool. 1952 (C)
Crowley, Roger (2011). City of Fortune; How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire. London: Faber & Faber.
ISBN9780571245949. (P)
Crowley, John (2008). Empires of the Sea:The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580. London: Faber & Faber.
ISBN9780571232307. (P)
Guilmartin, John Francis, Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, London. 1974.
ISBN0-521-20272-8(A)
Highly influential study of naval warfare in the Mediterranean in the 16th century, especially in debunking the idea that galleys were immediately made obsolete by the invention of naval artillery.
Pryor, John H., Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1991. 0-521-42892-0
[2](A)
Mostly focused on development of ship technology, including summaries of various academic debates on the construction of various Mediterranean vessels.
English and British navy
Hanson, Neil (2003). The Confident Hope of a Miracle. London: Corgi.
ISBN0552149756.(P)
Loades, David, The Tudor Navy: An administrative, political and military history. Scolar Press, Aldershot. 1992.
ISBN0-85967-922-5(A)
Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660–1649. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1997.
ISBN0-393-04579-X
Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Command of the Ocean : A naval History of Britain 1649-1815. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2004.
ISBN0-393-06050-0
Part of a three-volume series of British naval history. Very comprehensive, well-researched and meticulously references and covers social, political and even some cultural aspects of naval history. The bibliography is annotated by the author with comments on the strength and/or weaknesses of various works in the field.
Ships and ship types
Gardiner, Robert & Unger, Richard W., Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1994.
ISBN0-85177-560-8(A)
Gardiner, Robert & Morrison, John S. (editors), The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. Conway Maritime, London, 1995.
ISBN0-85177-554-3(A)
An anthology written by numerous authorities in the field. The focus is mostly on warfare and particularly ship construction and design. Some of the contributions are quite technical.
Gardiner, Robert & Lavery, Brian (editors), The Line of Battle: Sailing Warships 1650-1840. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1992.
ISBN0-85177-561-6(A)
Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN0-87021-101-3.
OCLC12613723.
Biographies
Sweetwater, Jack, The Great Admirals: Command at Sea 1587-1945. U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis. 1997.
ISBN0-87021-229-X pp. 112-29
[3]
South American navies
Scheina, Robert L. (1987). Latin America: A Naval History 1810–1987. Naval Institute Press.
ISBN0-87021-295-8. (A)