Naval Architecture Books of Interest

This list is from around 2005. I need to update it, as there are many other authors and documents to include.


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Books I Bought and Magazines I Subscribed To Between 1986 and 2006

• Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser (Bailer & Meisner, 1991)
  
• All Hands (Navy, various years, from 1984 to 2002)
  
• Asia In Play
• The Asian Mystique [ "...Challenges the cultural and political steriotypes of Asia that have dominated Western thinking for more than a century."] (Sheridan Prasso, Public Affairs, 2005)
  
• Basic Military Requirements (NavEdTra 10054-E)
• Battleship Musashi: The Making and SInking of the World's Biggest Battleship (Akira Yoshimura, Kodansha International, 1991 and 1999)
  
• Bluejackets' Manual, The (various editions, from 1982 on)
• China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World (Ted C. Fishman, 2005, 2006)
  
• China Today
  
• Cold War At Sea (Bonner & Bonner, 2000)
  
• Combat Fleets of the World (Baker, 1995)
  
• Command at Sea (1986)
  
• Controllable Pitch Propellers (Keith Brownlie, 1998)
  
• Damage Control (Kelly, 1944)
  
• Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (John S. Burnett 2002)
  
• The Defense Policies of Nations: A Comparative Study (Doughlas J. Murray & Paul R. Viotti, 1994)
  
• DOD Fact File, US (US DOD, 1993)
• The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943 (Alan Schom, Norton & Company, 2004)
  
• The Encyclopedia of the World's Military Aircraft (Aerospace Publishing Ltd, 2002)
  
• FAS.org (Federation of American Scientists)
  
• Fathom (Navy, various years, from 1984 on)
  
• Fireman (BuPers/NavPers 10520-C)
  
• Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice (Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.; Naval Institute Press, 1986)
  
• Foreign Affairs
  
• Foreign Policy
  
• From the Sea (US Navy, ~1993)
  
• Great Naval Disasters, US Naval Accidents in the 20th Century (Bonner & Bonner, 1998)
  
• Guide to the Soviet Navy, 4th Ed. (Polmar, 1986)
  
• Gung Ho (1981forward)
  
• Gunner's
  Mate M 1 & C (NavEdTra 10200-D) (US Navy's notice: "Distribution
  Statement A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.")
• Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (John Agnew, Temple University Press, 2005)
  
• High Seas Security (Camper, 1993)
  
• How Weapons Work (early/mid 1980's) (library book I didn't purchase, but read)
  
• Index on Censorship for Free Expression
  
• International Combat Arms (1986 forward while in publication)
  
• International Politics on the World Stage (John T. Rourke, 1994)
  
• Introduction
  to Naval Engineering Systems (Navy, 1977) (I don't own a copy of this
  one, though. I could get it for $60.00 at the local book store, but so
  many of my other books I've bought since I first saw INES have made it
  nearly redundant. Besides, much of the material is more Navy-furnished
  or Navy-published than US Naval Institute Press owned.)
• Iowa Battleships, The (Muir, 1987/1991))
  
• It's Your Ship, Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Abrashoff, 2002)
  
• J-Ships (magazine)
  
• Jane's Fighting Ships (from 1980's on)
• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Bruce Cumings, 2005, 1997)
  
• Lookout Training Handbook (NavEdTra 389-01-00-79)
  
• Military Requirements for Petty Officer 3 & 2 (NavEdTra 10056-E1)
  
• Military
  Requirements for Petty Officer Second Class (NavEdTra 10045-A,) (US
  Navy's notice: "Distribution Statement A: Approved for public release;
  distribution is unlimited.")
• Modern Fighting Helicopters (Bill Gunston & Mike Spick, 1986 & 1998)
  
• Modern Ship Design (Thomas C. Gillmer, 1975)
  
• Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (David Shambaugh, 2002)
  
• Missile Inbound, The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf (Levinson & Edwards, 1997)
  
• Modern Naval Aviation , Illustrated Guide, (and others) (1980's forward, Salamander/Arco Press)
  
• Modern US Navy Destroyers (Tomajczyk, 2001)
  
• Modern US Navy Submarines (Robert and Robin Genat, 1997)
  
• Muckle's Naval Architecture (W. Muckle/D.A. Taylor, 1987)
  
• Naval Forces International (1985)
  
• Naval Shiphandling (Capt R.S. Crenshaw, Jr./Naval Institute Press, 1960)
  
• Naval Review (magazine)
  
• Naval Terms Dictionary (Beach, 1990)
  
• Navies of World War 3 (Preston, 1984)
  
• The Navy Adventure: Navy Training Programs (NavCruitCom, 1980, includes nice cutaway of DD-963)
  
• Navy Times (various years, from 1983 on)
  
• Navy International (1991)
  
• Navy: What's in it for You (US Navy Brochure, 1992) (Shows GTM PCC in CCS)
• North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power (Time Beal, 2005)
  
• Nuclear Warships and Naval Nuclear Weapons: A Complete Inventory (Handler & Arkin /Neptune Papers Nbr 2, May 1998)
  
• On a Destroyer's Bridge (Frost, 1930)
  
• The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas P. M. Barnett)
  
• Petty Officer Indoctrination Course (NavEdTra 10820-B)
  
• Principles
  of Naval Engineering (Prepared by Bureau of Naval Personnel, NAVPERS
  10788-B, 1970, "For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, US
  Government Printing Office Washington DC 20402- Price $6.75)
• Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels (1985)
  
• Scale Ship Modeler (1987)
  
• Sea Classics ( various years from 1983 forward)
  
• Sea Power (Japanese version of their own nation)
  
• Sea Power (US publication various years from 1983 forward)
  
• Seamanship Rate Training Manual (NavEdTra 10120-H)
  
• Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet (Polmar, 1985)
  
• Surface Warfare (Navy, 1984 forward)
  
• Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy (Stephen M. Walt, 2002)
  
• Tiger Cruise (Douglas Morgan, 2000 (fiction work))
  
• US Naval Developments (Breemer, 1983)
  
• US Naval Institute Proceedings (from 1981 forward)
  
• US Nuclear Submarines (Arnold Meisner, 1990)
  
• USS (name a ship) web sites (public side of web sites of USN ships)
  
• Watch Officer's Guide (9th edition, Noel)
  
• Warship Boneyards (Bonner & Bonner, 2001)
  
• Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century (Allen Hammond, 1998)
  
• World Fact Book (CIA, 1997-1998 )
  
• World Naval Weapons Systems, Naval Institute Guide (Norman Friedman, 1991)
  
• The Yard (Sanders, 1999)
  

Because my memory is not among the best, I constantly have to refer to
much material and become overwhelmed at times, having to "discard" some
things in order to move ahead...

By no means do I claim to be any sort of expert.  I am most certainly not a naval architect, and I posess no engineering or architectural certs, etc. However, I sometimes consider that I could be called an "unofficial naval ship designer", since a number of people who looked at my designs thought I was a naval architect.