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This thread is for web sites as well as book recommendations towards info on ships/subs/planes of the 1st world war. I will have everything posted on the first post, and will be posted under nation or miscellaneous.
For General Informatuion:
http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/
Germany
http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/index.html
France
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrench.htm#dreads
Nice site that has a large selection of ships, subs, etc. A bit of history on the names, some combat status, and info on the ships size.
Italy
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1CampaignsItaly.htm
Interesting site that has small battle reports from WWI, nothing big but could help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regia_Marina#World_War_I
Wiki seems to show up a lot these days, will just add to the pile. Very little info.
USA
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyUS.htm
Same site as the French navy, as well as others. Interesting site.
UK
http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/monitors.htm
UK monitors, lots of them!
http://www.naval-history.net/NAVAL1914-18.htm
Large amount of info on various classes of the Royal Navy.
Encyclopedia of British Submarines 1901-1955. Limited Google-view of the book. It even includes the monetary cost of each submarine.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.u...mp;GPE=False&MARKER=0&j=1
The British National Archives Admiralty section
miscellaneous
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm
Just a site that has a bit of everything. Paint schemes, photos history.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/index_weapons.htm
For plans: http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/plans and http://www.warshipsww2.eu/staty.php?language=E&period=
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/Magazine/MK/index.htm
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Illuminated Insanity
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FYI in the past day or 2 have saved a lot of web sites on WWI ships about 30+ and will post them within a 24 hour period.
So stay tuned.
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I got quite a few myself Jesse_James. I'll wait till I see what you posted and then If I got something you don't I'll let you know.
Lutjens out
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| lotharlutjens wrote: | I got quite a few myself Jesse_James. I'll wait till I see what you posted and then If I got something you don't I'll let you know.
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Go ahead and post them. 
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| Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:21 pm |
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Can you PM me? I'm new to doing some of these things and need to ask a few questions. (computer literate I'm not) I'm amazed that I even figured out how to do the little that I do know.
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| Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:09 pm |
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Illuminated Insanity
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I like that 1st one, I have already posted the second one.
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I've added in the first post the prices of some common aircraft. This is extremely difficult information to come across, so we should make sure we won't lose it  .
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I've compiled a short bibliography of books. It is by no means complete and I will add more source materials as I find it.
German Warships of World War I: The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft, 1914-1918 (Hardcover) by Norman Friedman (Author)
Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I by John E. (editor) Moore (Hardcover - 1990)
Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1869-1905 by Conway Maritime Editors (Hardcover - Dec 1979)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol 2) by Robert Gardiner and Randal Gray (Hardcover - May 1985)
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Sorry that should be::
German Warships of World War I: The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft, 1914-1918 (Hardcover) by Norman Friedman (Author)
Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I by John E. (editor) Moore (Hardcover - 1990)
Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 by Conway Maritime Editors (Hardcover - Dec 1979)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol 2) by Robert Gardiner and Randal Gray (Hardcover - May 1985)
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Here's some more source material for the bibliography:
Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era by Norman Friedman and A. D. Baker (Hardcover - Jan 15, 2008)
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (Studies in Maritime History) by Nicholas A. Lambert (Hardcover - Jun 1999)
Dreadnought Gunnery at the Battle of Jutland: Fire Conntrol and the Royal Navy 1892-1919 (Cass Series--Naval Policy and History) by John Brooks (Hardcover - Jul 19, 2005)
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie (Paperback - Sep 15, 1992)
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie (Paperback - Nov 2, 2004)
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a German navy site, BB/BC drawings
http://german-navy.tripod.com
some scanned books here in the russian language (but not just russian ships) if anyone knows it, or knows how to web-translate, but they have lots of links to line drawings (to which ships I don't know, the not knowing russian thing) but you could click around. Just click on a promising cover, then there are links to what seems like each page in the magazine, sometimes with some linedrawing thumbnails, each edition seems like it has a color plate with the best detail towards the end.
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/Magazine/MK/index.htm
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/WeaponBook/Fleet.htm
a random example of an unknown ship, resized smaller I hope
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Swarbs, the Russian sites have some good stuff, unfortunately I don't speak or read Russian either. I just started clicking here and there when suddenly a full colour look down view of what was obviously a German Dreadnought ( I could tell that by the marvelous German Flags at the top)
Clicking on the thumbnail pic it enlarged and Lo and behold in the right margin were the words Prinz Luitpold, a Kaiser class Dreadnought! I'm going to look around but I'm using dial up and Pic's are slow to load, so if anyone interested in this project who has a faster system than me (everybody in the multiverse) wants to help, please, because there is a lot to look at here and no telling what we may find. Darn those rooskies, how dare they print this wonderful looking Site in Russian. Don't they know we American's speak English. H'm, Go Figure.
Here's what I found
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/M...ne/MK/1996_03/Pictures/Color1.jpg
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| Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:29 am |
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| lotharlutjens wrote: | | Swarbs, the Russian sites have some good stuff, unfortunately I don't speak or read Russian either. |
Have you tried http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
It translate sites, not perfect but you can get an idea.
My dad speaks Russian so any "blurps" or what ever you want to call them I can ask him.
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| Jesse_James wrote: | | lotharlutjens wrote: | | Swarbs, the Russian sites have some good stuff, unfortunately I don't speak or read Russian either. |
Have you tried http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
It translate sites, not perfect but you can get an idea.
My dad speaks Russian so any "blurps" or what ever you want to call them I can ask him. |
Thanks, that is pretty awesome, I mean if your only goal is to find where the pictures will be to take the line-drawings (which is my goal) then it works fine. Thanks again.
The verdict on these sites is pretty decent, they cover at one point or another just about every navy (inc. South Americans + Japan/Russia) for the time period, unfortunately profile drawings seem most prominent. Essentially all BB's/BC's get two-view drawings and the coverage is spottier the farther down the line you look. Unless the ship you want recieved it's own issue of the magazine the line drawings will be less detailed than the shaded one above, but certainly passable for the scale we're working in, especially if you can't find anything else.
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Oh yeah baby, didn't even know Babelfish existed. Copied, some text inside a magazine cover, pasted it into Babelfish text translator, set it for Russian to English and magically the gibberish transferred into, The Italian Fleet of 1914-1918..... WOW!!! Found a full colour look down view of the destroyer Lika immediately, someone who knows how to save pics needs to search these sites, a real treasure trove. Even though my machine is slow I expect to spend a little time there. The plates are Gorgeous.
Thank You Jesse_James
And yes, Swarbs was right, the Illustrations do seem to be at the bottom of each page.
Absolutely wonderful.
And there's other web-sites in other languages.
HA HA HA HA HA, I HAVE THE POWER!!!! 
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| Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:20 am |
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Why would you waste your time translating texts by copy N' past when you can translate the whole web page?
Insert the link on the 2nd option pick Russian to English and its almost like magic.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/transl...p;lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
Now if only it could do my paper on Plato's work I would be set for life.
By the way swarbs great site. It has been put into my FAV section.
One of the best sites I have seen in some time. 
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| Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:14 am |
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Swarbs, you are right, there is a lot of profiles, but some mighty good full colour look down views as well, In a little over an hour, on my incredibly slow machine, I have found the following, besides the above mentioned Italian and German ships.
Russia DD Grom
Romania TB Locotenant Calinescu Dimitriu
Spain B Espana
France SS Curie
and for Jesse who turned me on to Babblefish
Austria Hungary B Viribus Unitus
B Szent Istvan
All gorgeous full colour Look Down View plates.
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