FLEETS OF WORLD WAR II: Design History and Analysis for Every Ship of Every Navy (Revised Edition)
Caught up in global chaos the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning.
Caught up in global chaos the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning.
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93 gun-armament specs 42 torpedo specs 19 treaty-tonnage rows 35 source tables 778 pages
The Washington and London naval treaties fixed the capital-ship balance of the 1920s–30s — the famous 5 : 5 : 3 ratio. Britain and the United States were each allowed 525,000 tons of capital ships; Japan, 315,000.
| table_header | row | source_page |
|---|---|---|
| country | number | tonnage | Great Britain | 15 | 525,000 | 12 |
| country | number | tonnage | United States | 15 | 525,000 | 12 |
| country | number | tonnage | Japan | 9 | 315,000 | 12 |
| country | number | tonnage | France | —2 | 175,000 | 12 |
| country | number | tonnage | Italy | — | 175,000 | 12 |
| country | CL tonnage | CA tonnage | DD tonnage | SS tonnage | Great Britain | 192,200 | 146,800 | 150,000 | 52,700 | 13 |
| gun | shell_weight_lb | range_yd | ceiling_ft | fire_control | ship_class | source_page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/50 | 870 | 23,500 | 30 | Rivadavias | 21 | |
| 10/40 | 500 | Belgranos | 21 | |||
| 9.4/35 | 353 | Independencias | 21 | |||
| 7.5/52 | 200 | 29,855 | Almirante Browns | 21 | ||
| 6/50 | 105 | 7.5 | Rivadavias | 21 | ||
| 6/40 | 100 | Pueyrredón | 21 |
| torpedo | explosive_weight_lb | range_yd_at_speed | notes | source_page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.7in 19V | 525 | 2200/43 4400/35 | 62 | |
| 21.7in 19D | 525 | 6560/35 15,300/25 | 62 | |
| 21.7in 23DT | 683 | 9840/39 14,200/35 | more modern, used by DD | 62 |
| 21.7in 23D | 683 | 6560/43 21,900/29 | used by cruisers | 62 |
| 21.7in 24M | 683 | 3300/45 7650/35 | SS model | 62 |
The figures above are compiled in FLEETS OF WORLD WAR II: Design History and Analysis for Every Ship of Every Navy (Revised Edition) by Worth, Richard and extracted to structured data from the book's interior with page-level provenance. The dataset is the raw reference; the book is the authoritative analysis — the design history of why each navy built the fleet it did, campaign by campaign. The underlying data is published with the permission of Nimble Books LLC under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial and research use; commercial use requires a license from Nimble Books LLC.