Jane's Fighting Ships
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and microfiche) of information on all the world's warship
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s arranged by nation, including information on ship's names, dimensions, armaments, silhouette
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s, etc. Its annual editions cover the warships used by the different national naval and paramilitary forces, and provide data on their characteristics.
It was originally published by John F. T. Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships. Its success launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group
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. The following is a list of major works which followed the format of Jane’s original work:
| Title | Editor | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All the World's fighting ships | Jane, Fred T Little | Brown and Co | 1898 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1922 | Parkes, Oscar | Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, London | 1922 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1924 | Parkes, Oscar and McMurtrie, Francis | Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, London | 1924 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1941 | McMurtrie, Francis E. | Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, London | 1942 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1943-44 | McMurtrie, Francis E. | Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, London | 1944 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1951-52 | Blackman, Raymond | Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, London | 1952 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1952-53 | Blackman, Raymond | McGaw Hill, Canada and Samson, Low, Marston Co, London | 1953 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1954-55 | Blackman, Raymond | McGraw Hill Canada | 1955 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1956-57 | Blackman, Raymond | Jane's Fighting Ships Publishing Co | 1957 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1958-59 | Blackman, Raymond | McGraw Hill Canada | 1959 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1973-74 | Moore, Capt. John | McGraw Hill Canada | 07-032020-9 | 1974 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1974-75 | Moore, Capt. John | Franklin Watts Inc, NY | 0-531-02743-0 | 1975 |
| All the World's fighting ships 1860-1905 | Conway's Gardiner, Robert (ed) | Mayflower Books | 0-8317-0302-4 | 1979 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1979-80 | Moore, Capt. | John Franklin Watts Inc, NY | 0-531-03913-7 | 1980 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1983-84 | Moore, Capt. John | Jane's Year Books | 0-7106-0774-1 | 1984 |
| All the World's fighting ships 1906-1921 | Conway's Gardiner, Robert (ed) | Naval institute Press | 0-87021-907-3 | 1985 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II | Preston, Antony | Jane's Publishing Company | 1-851-70494-9 | 1989 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1992-93 | Sharpe, Capt. Richard | Jane's Data Division | 0-7106-0983-3 | 1993 |