June 17, 2011 at 8:09 pm
where can I get historic ORBATs of navies like RN, MN etc ? say, if I wanted to know what the RN looked like in 1963, where should I look ?
thanks.
By: Merlock - 18th June 2011 at 18:46
There’s a “Navypedia” of some interest too:
http://www.navypedia.org/
By: Boom - 18th June 2011 at 15:32
thanks ! no online links for RN ?
By: Al Elliott - 17th June 2011 at 20:57
For more recent descriptions of fleet inventories you should try to locate one of the volumes of “(The Naval Institute Guide to) Combat Fleets of the World”, published roughly every 2 years since the mid 70s.
(ok, the recent 15th. edition is of 2007…)
Older issues are available at second-hand-bookshops at good prices.
Here in Germany we have a series of books called “Weyers Flottentaschenbuch/Warships of the World” first published in 1900.
About every 2 years it lists all ships of all navies with comprehensive tables, drawings and a lot of photos. The older issues are all german language only but that should be no problem as there is not much narrative included.
Many older issues were reprinted.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyers_Flottentaschenbuch
Al