Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Maritime warfare task force

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Welcome to the maritime warfare task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope
This task force covers all aspects of maritime warfare, including:
 * Naval battles or campaigns and naval raids.
 * Leaders, crewmen, staff, and strategists, as well as designers and researchers involved in the development of maritime warfare technology.
 * Naval units, naval bases, coastal forts, ship classes and individual ships.
 * Maritime combat tactics, naval warfare strategies, weaponry, terminology, and technology related to maritime warfare.

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Participants
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 * 1)  (Philippine Naval Assets)
 * 2)  (US Naval History)
 * 3)  (translating Ottoman Navy ship articles, especially the more obscure ones)
 * 4)  (WWII US and Japanese Naval History)
 * 5)  (Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, Venetian, Ottoman & modern Greek navies and ships)
 * 6)   (United States Revenue Cutter Service & United States Coast Guard cutters, Operation Market Time)
 * 7)   (Royal Navy, particularly current)
 * 8)  (Main interests => Countries/Regions: Argentinean, British, German, & USA Navies, warships & ordnance. Conflicts: WWII esp.Atlantic and Mediterranean, Falklands/Malvinas war. Technology: Modern warships & related weaponry/ordnance in general. Naval Aviation, esp. carrier-borne.)
 * 9)  (WW2, Primarily USN and IJN)
 * 10)  (1714-1812)
 * 11)  (18th-20th century)
 * 12)  {Early American Naval History, commanders and their ships}
 * 13)  (primarily WW2)
 * 14)  WW2 German navy.
 * 15)  Pre-modern stuff, especially galleys.
 * 16)  (WWI, WWII, especially U-boats, and modern military history)
 * 17)  (Naval ranks)
 * 18)  (primarily the pre-Dreadnought era through WWII)
 * 19)  (pre-modern East Asia)
 * 1)  (pre-modern East Asia)


 * 1)  (Royal Canadian Navy and related)
 * 2)  (Japan, mostly)
 * 3)  (Naval history, especially Royal Navy 19th and 20th Centuries)
 * 4)  (USMC, Navy SEALs, Specwar)
 * 5)  (20th century ships and warfare, especially Finland related, AWB-user)
 * 6)  (the German navies primarily, various others)
 * 7)  (Philippine Naval Assets)
 * 8)  (translation to pl.wiki)
 * 9)  (US Navy, Naval History, WWII)
 * 10)  (US Navy, esp DD, SS/SSN, early cruiser class articles)
 * 11)  (Mostly Royal Navy, but will help with anything)
 * 12)  (World War II battleships...random things too.)
 * 13)  (U.S. Navy 1941-present. Modern Naval Warfare. U.S. Navy articles.)
 * 14)  (Articles on types of warship, obscure 19th century stuff, and naval warfare in general)
 * 15)  (Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945))
 * 16)  (warships from the Symondites onwards, and associated topics)
 * 17)  (Royal Navy ship classes and individual ships)
 * 18)  (Royal Navy)
 * 19)  (Iranian Navy and related)
 * 1)  (Royal Navy ship classes and individual ships)
 * 2)  (Royal Navy)
 * 3)  (Iranian Navy and related)
 * 1)  (Iranian Navy and related)

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Inactive members
This is a list of people who are members of the project but haven't edited Wikipedia for a year. If you find your name on this list, feel free to move it back to the list of active participants when you return to editing.


 * 1)  Submarines, in general, U-boats in particular - and their targets. Also, German navies through the ages.
 * 2)  (Mainly American)
 * 3)  (Philippine Maritime History,WWII)
 * 4)  (WW2 and modern)
 * 5)  (Interested in the British Royal Navy and American Navy)
 * 6)  (WW2 Pacific campaign battles)
 * 7)  (WWII - Japanese Battleships and Aircraft Carriers)
 * 8)  (China's naval development, French navy in late nineteenth century, Sino-French War)
 * 9)   (United States Navy Retired, US Navy History, Navies of The World, warships)
 * 10)  (Italian Navy & warships, Med conflict in WWII, warships of steam era, Naval miscellany)
 * 11)  (WWII & Modern warships; WWII naval battles)
 * 12)  (Soviet/Russian Navy - history, people, places, ships & submarines)
 * 13)  (mainly WWII, but not exclusively)
 * 14)  (World War One, Royal Navy)
 * 15)  (20th Century Maritime Warfare mainly Naval Hardware, primarily British & HMNB Portsmouth)
 * 16)  (mainly, but not limited to WWI, WWII, the cold war, submarines and Soviet/Russian naval technology)
 * 17)  (British Navy vessels)
 * 18)  (Gunboat War)
 * 19)  (mainly USN ships, shipwrecks of all periods)
 * 20)  So-far, Ford Island rewrite with 2 others.  But, hey, I had the massive massively illustrated hardback WWII at Sea, in Polish, as a kid.  As well as "Warfare at Sea in Antiquity" or some such, tambien.  So, who can tell... I am not Walking Encyclopedia for nuthin'.
 * 21)  (ancient naval warfare, Classis Britannica, Roman Navy, Goodwin Sands wrecks, HMNB Portsmouth, Napoleonic era)
 * 22)  (Spanish/French/British/Dutch navies during the Age of Sail)
 * 23)  (Royal Australian Navy and related)
 * 24)  (Spanish Ships and Spanish sailor; start with traslation Churruca class destroyer)
 * 25)  (submarine warfare and antisubmarine warfare, particularly WW2; WW2 submarines generally)
 * 26)  (War of 1812, US Battleships)
 * 27)  (submarine warfare)
 * 1)  (War of 1812, US Battleships)
 * 2)  (submarine warfare)

Wikipedia

 * WikiProject Ships/Sources
 * WikiProject Ships/Tools

Online references

 * World War II
 * Norwegian ships 1939-1945
 * Norwegian free fleet 1939-1945+Atlantic convoys, raiders, POWs and more
 * Norwegian home fleet 1939-1945


 * Royal Australian Navy
 * Official Website
 * Seapower Centre - Australia
 * Australian War Memorial


 * Royal Norwegian Navy
 * Navy Museum
 * Royal Norwegian Navy day by day 1814-2000

Print references
The following list is annotated and commented in an attempt to provide useful guides for editors. Each title is classified as belonging to any of the following categories:
 * (P) Popular histories - these give an accessible, easily understood introduction to the subject but can be unclear on their sources. Good for providing contextual information in a specialist article, less so for detail and in asserting interpretations of primary sources.
 * (A) Academic studies - these make critical use of sources to provide an interpretation. These should be the mainstay of article referencing.
 * (C) Classic studies - sources of significance in the development of understanding of the subject, but often superseded by more recent research. Can be used for referencing but, unless talking about the author's theories directly, should preferably be checked against more modern works.


 * Europe and North America
 * Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Baltic During the Sailing-Ship Period 1522-1850. Gilbert-Wood, London. 1910 (C)
 * Anderson, Roger Charles, Oared Fighting Ships: From Classical Times to the Coming of Steam. London. 1962. (C)
 * A brief general history of oared vessels of war. Good for a general overview, but is necessarily less specific on details and tends to give undue focus on some regions and periods.
 * Glete, Jan, Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500-1680. (2 volumes) Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm. 1993. (A)
 * A general overview of naval warfare in connection with political history. Contains a set of tables that summarizes the number of ships and approximate total tonnage of all major and minor navies throughout the period, including statistics on the extent of ship building.
 * Glete, Jan, Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe. Routledge, London. 2000. ISBN 0-415-21455-6 (A)
 * Hattendorf, John B. & Unger, Richard W. (editors), War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2002. ISBN 0-85115-903-6 (A)
 * Anthology by academic historians focused on a number of different topics. Includes discussion of academic analysis of naval warfare, including a general criticism of the concept of "sea control" as introduced by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
 * Lewis, Archibald Ross & Runyan, Timothy J., European Naval and Maritime History, 300–1500. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 1985. ISBN 0-253-20573-5
 * Rodgers, William Ledyard, Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries: A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. 1939. (C)
 * Rose, Susan, Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500. Routledge, London. 2001. ISBN 0-415-23976-1 (A)
 * Sondhaus, Lawrence. Naval warfare, 1815-1914. Routledge, London. 2001. (A)
 * Sondhaus, Lawrence. Naval warfare, 1815-1914. Routledge, London. 2001. (A)


 * Mediterranean powers
 * Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853. Liverpool. 1952 (C)
 * (P)
 * (P)
 * Guilmartin, John Francis, Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, London. 1974. ISBN 0-521-20272-8 (A)
 * Highly influential study of naval warfare in the Mediterranean in the 16th century, especially in debunking the idea that galleys were immediately made obsolete by the invention of naval artillery.
 * Pryor, John H., Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1991. 0-521-42892-0 (A)
 * Mostly focused on development of ship technology, including summaries of various academic debates on the construction of various Mediterranean vessels.


 * English and British navy
 * (P)
 * Loades, David, The Tudor Navy: An administrative, political and military history. Scolar Press, Aldershot. 1992. ISBN 0-85967-922-5 (A)
 * (P)
 * Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660–1649. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1997. ISBN 0-393-04579-X
 * Rodger, Nicholas A. M., The Command of the Ocean : A naval History of Britain 1649-1815. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2004. ISBN 0-393-06050-0
 * Part of a three-volume series of British naval history. Very comprehensive, well-researched and meticulously references and covers social, political and even some cultural aspects of naval history. The bibliography is annotated by the author with comments on the strength and/or weaknesses of various works in the field.


 * Ships and ship types
 * Gardiner, Robert & Unger, Richard W., Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1994. ISBN 0-85177-560-8 (A)
 * Gardiner, Robert & Morrison, John S. (editors), The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. Conway Maritime, London, 1995. ISBN 0-85177-554-3 (A)
 * An anthology written by numerous authorities in the field. The focus is mostly on warfare and particularly ship construction and design. Some of the contributions are quite technical.
 * Gardiner, Robert & Lavery, Brian (editors), The Line of Battle: Sailing Warships 1650-1840. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1992. ISBN 0-85177-561-6 (A)


 * Biographies
 * Sweetwater, Jack, The Great Admirals: Command at Sea 1587-1945. U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis. 1997. ISBN 0-87021-229-X pp. 112-29


 * South American navies
 * (A)