warship 2024

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world’s warships.

For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world’s combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which Warship has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.

This year’s Warship includes features on Imperial Japan’s Matsu and Tachibana destroyer classes, the Italian CRDA midget submarines, France’s 1960s missile frigates Suffren and Duquesne, and Germany’s sailing raider of World War I, Seeadler.

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 on the French Navy, of which the most recent is French Armoured Cruisers 1887-1932 (2019) with Philippe Caresse. John is also the sole author of Warships After Washington; a sequel, Warships After London, was published in 2020. John has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004.