Issue number 19 covers the IJN aircraft carrier Shokaku, the Disaster at Honda Point, the debut of the FNFL, the rebels of the Storojevoï - the real story of Red October and much more.

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Shokaku - Aboard Japan's Best Carrier
Shōkaku was the "crane whose flight is an omen of victory." With black and white plumage and red crest, the Japanese crane is often depicted in paintings and drawings as a symbol of long life, healing and immortality. This poetic image will be, ironically, brought to fight in deadly naval operations in the Pacific War by one of the most powerful buildings of the Imperial Navy.

Honda Point, September 8, 1923 - Or How to Lose Seven Destroyers in Five Minutes
At sea, there are decisions that do not forgive. When a Destroyer Squadron Commander ordered his units to spin at 20 knots in a fog along the shore, it is possible that a simple miscalculation leads to disaster. But when the human and technical errors accumulate, disaster is not possible, it is inevitable.

The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915 - A Squad Against Type
On 19 February 1915 the Dardanelles campaign begins, otherwise known as "Battle of Gallipoli". At this ambitious operation the under-prepared, English and French suffer a humiliating defeat, both maritime and on land.

March-May 1942: It is Called Trinidad - A Poor Lonely Croisuer
To convey the transport to Murmansk, the Royal Navy sends the Arctic Ocean escorts consist of trawlers, destroyers but also light cruisers, because only they are able to effectively oppose against German destroyers . In these waters battered by incessant storms and closely monitored by the German Navy, the confrontations are rare, often brief and never have the expected outcome.

The beginnings of FNFL, 1940 - New birth for the Royal
June 1940. The France collapses, his armies defeated. The time is chaos. For many will ring when the choice between stopping the fight or its recovery in conditions that are not yet known. Some of those who refuse to lay down their arms will soon begin to congregate in England under the banner of General de Gaulle. Among them, the sailors will return engagement in future Free French Naval Forces, reminiscent of a marine then plunged into unprecedented turmoil.

Mimac in Swedish waters, 1919-2014 - 95 years of infiltrations
The Swedish coast seems to attract submarines. Just recently, blurry pictures are said to show a submersible have been went around the web. The similar reports have had peaked during the Cold War, and were long claimed the Soviets as the culprits. The truth is not so simple

Mutiny on the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy, 1975 - The true story of October Red
On November 9, 1975, Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the middle of the night, the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy frigate sailed lights off the Baltic port, enveloped by fog and freezing cold, and slipped quietly into the Gulf of Riga. A few minutes later a phone rings in the Kremlin Grand Palace housing the apartments of Leonid Brezhnev. Awakened in the middle of the night, the first secretary of the Communist Party is in turmoil. In the morning, no less than thirteen Soviet warships and dozens of fighter planes are ordered to pursue the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy .

A Step Ahead for the US Navy - The Arms of the Near Future
The great naval powers of the world have been engaged in recent years in a unprecedented race to arms since the collapse of the USSR. Russia has launched a giant military reform program and shipbuilding of 575 billion euros over the next ten years!

MooringLexicon - Bows & Bows
The bow of a ship often reinforces the aesthetic of its lines, but if at the time of sailing ships its design incorporated a wide ornamental appearance, it is in the modern era rather induces the use of the building and expected benefits a specific configuration.