All photos, unless otherwise credited in
the caption, are believed to be public domain.
Most come from the US Navy History Center
or the US National Archives, while others
were found online and listed as public domain.
If I have used you copyrighted photo on the
site, please email me and I will either remove it or give you
credit, whichever you prefer.
All text, such as ship or design histories,
was written by me. I used the following books
for research:
"The Battle of the River Plate",
by Geoffrey Bennett
"Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970",
by Sigfried Breyer
"Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914
to Present", by Roger Chesneau
"Axis and Neutral Battleships of World
War II", by William Garzke and Robert
Dulin
"United States Battleships in World
War II", by William Garzke and Robert
Dulin
"The Invergordon Mutiny", by Alan
Ereira
"U.S. Cruisers, an Illistrated Design
History", by Norman Friedman
"German Warships 1815-1945, Volume One:
Major Surface Vessels", by Erich Groner
"Austro-Hungarian Battleships",
by Paul Kemp
"Sacred Vessels, The Cult of the Battleship
and the Rise of the U.S. Navy", by Robert
O'Connell
"British Battleships 1860-1950",
by Dr. Oscar Parkes
"British Battleships, 1892-1957",
by Randolph Pears
"Battleships of World War I", by
Anthony Preston
"Anatomy of the Ship: The Battlecruiser
Hood", by John Roberts
"Der Seekrieg", by Vice Admiral
Friedrich Ruge
"Dictionary of the World's Capital Ships",
by Paul Silverstone
"Battleships of World War Two",
by M.J. Whitley
"Naval Ordnance, a Textbook for the
United States Naval Academy", by various
officers
Also various issues of:
"Warship International", a naval
history magazine
"Gangut", a Russian language history
magazine
