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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.

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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.

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Maritime-task-force=yes or Maritime=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Maritime warfare task force articles.

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Participants

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If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia for several months.

  1. Albert777MAX (talk · contribs) (Philippine Naval Assets)
  2. Bigroger27509 (talk · contribs) (US Naval History)
  3. Browhatwhyamihere (talk · contribs) (translating Ottoman Navy ship articles, especially the more obscure ones)
  4. Buster40004 (talk · contribs) (WWII US and Japanese Naval History)
  5. Cplakidas (talk · contribs) (Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, Venetian, Ottoman & modern Greek navies and ships)
  6. Cuprum17 (talk · contribs) (United States Revenue Cutter Service & United States Coast Guard cutters, Operation Market Time)
  7. David Biddulph (talk · contribs) (Royal Navy, particularly current)
  8. DPdH (talk · contribs) (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. EpsilonEditor (talk · contribs) (WW2, Primarily USN and IJN)
  10. Euryalus (talk · contribs) (1714-1812)
  11. GELongstreet (talk · contribs) (18th-20th century)
  12. Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs)
  13. Gwillhickers (talk · contribs) {Early American Naval History, commanders and their ships}
  14. History person 2 (talk · contribs) (primarily WW2)
  15. Iazyges (talk · contribs) WW2 German navy.
  16. Peter Isotalo (talk · contribs) Pre-modern stuff, especially galleys.
  17. Keallu (talk · contribs) (WWI, WWII, especially U-boats, and modern military history)
  18. Kirk (talk · contribs) (Naval ranks)
  19. Kralizec! (talk · contribs) (primarily the pre-Dreadnought era through WWII)
  20. LordAmeth (talk · contribs) (pre-modern East Asia)
  21. McMuff (talk · contribs) (Royal Canadian Navy and related)
  22. MChew (talk · contribs) (Japan, mostly)
  23. Mandrake079 (talk · contribs) (Naval history, especially Royal Navy 19th and 20th Centuries)
  24. Mike Searson (talk · contribs) (USMC, Navy SEALs, Specwar)
  25. MoRsE (talk · contribs) (20th century ships and warfare, especially Finland related, AWB-user)
  26. Parsecboy (talk · contribs) (the German navies primarily, various others)
  27. Phichanad (talk · contribs) (Philippine Naval Assets)
  28. PMG (talk · contribs) (translation to pl.wiki)
  29. Reb1981 (talk · contribs) (US Navy, Naval History, WWII)
  30. RobDuch (talk · contribs) (US Navy, esp DD, SS/SSN, early cruiser class articles)
  31. SmartyPants22 (talk · contribs) (Mostly Royal Navy, but will help with anything)
  32. Sp33dyphil (talk · contribs)
  33. Starsign1971 (talk · contribs)
  34. Sturmvogel_66 (talk · contribs)
  35. the_ed17 (talk · contribs) (World War II battleships...random things too.)
  36. Luis Santos24 (talk · contribs) (U.S. Navy 1941-present. Modern Naval Warfare. U.S. Navy articles.)
  37. The Land (talk · contribs) (Articles on types of warship, obscure 19th century stuff, and naval warfare in general)
  38. Thewellman (talk · contribs) (Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945))
  39. Toddy1 (talk · contribs) (warships from the Symondites onwards, and associated topics)
  40. Tylermack999 (talk · contribs) (Western warships pre-WW1 onwards)
  41. Valentinian (talk · contribs)
  42. Welsh (talk · contribs) (Royal Navy ship classes and individual ships)
  43. Woody (talk · contribs) (Royal Navy)
  44. Pahlevun (talk · contribs) (Iranian Navy and related)
  45. Thehistorianisaac (talk · contribs)
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Inactive members

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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.

Inactive members list
  1. ÄDA - DÄP (talk · contribs) Submarines, in general, U-boats in particular - and their targets. Also, German navies through the ages.
  2. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) (Mainly American)
  3. Chewygum (talk · contribs) (Philippine Maritime History,WWII)
  4. Chwyatt (talk · contribs) (WW2 and modern)
  5. Charlesvvvv (talk · contribs) (Interested in the British Royal Navy and American Navy)
  6. Cla68 (talk · contribs) (WW2 Pacific campaign battles)
  7. Climie.ca (talk · contribs) (WWII - Japanese Battleships and Aircraft Carriers)
  8. djwilms (talk · contribs) (China's naval development, French navy in late nineteenth century, Sino-French War)
  9. Duanedonecker (talk · contribs) (United States Navy Retired, US Navy History, Navies of The World, warships)
  10. Dott.Piergiorgio (talk · contribs) (Italian Navy & warships, Med conflict in WWII, warships of steam era, Naval miscellany)
  11. Dziban303 (talk · contribs) (WWII & Modern warships; WWII naval battles)
  12. Fabartus (talk · contribs)
  13. Федоров (talk · contribs) (Soviet/Russian Navy - history, people, places, ships & submarines)
  14. Folks at 137 (talk · contribs) (mainly WWII, but not exclusively)
  15. Inge (talk · contribs)
  16. Jll (talk · contribs) (World War One, Royal Navy)
  17. JonEastham (talk · contribs) (20th Century Maritime Warfare mainly Naval Hardware, primarily British & HMNB Portsmouth)
  18. Kallemax (talk · contribs) (mainly, but not limited to WWI, WWII, the cold war, submarines and Soviet/Russian naval technology)
  19. LameCat (talk · contribs) (British Navy vessels)
  20. Leifern (talk · contribs) (Gunboat War)
  21. Maralia (talk · contribs) (mainly USN ships, shipwrecks of all periods)
  22. Mareklug (talk · contribs) 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'.
  23. Neddyseagoon (talk · contribs) (ancient naval warfare, Classis Britannica, Roman Navy, Goodwin Sands wrecks, HMNB Portsmouth, Napoleonic era)
  24. Pietje96 (talk · contribs) (Spanish/French/British/Dutch navies during the Age of Sail)
  25. Saberwyn (talk · contribs) (Royal Australian Navy and related)
  26. Takashi kurita (talk · contribs) (Spanish Ships and Spanish sailor; start with traslation Churruca class destroyer)
  27. Trekphiler (talk · contribs) (submarine warfare and antisubmarine warfare, particularly WW2; WW2 submarines generally)
  28. Tirronan (talk · contribs) (War of 1812, US Battleships)
  29. Underneath-it-All (talk · contribs) (submarine warfare)

Article statistics

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The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force.

A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here.

With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a significant number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:

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Maritime warfare task force assessment statistics
Articles Lists
FA 400 FL 57
A 140 AL 2
GA 2,212    
B 4,905 BL 82
C 15,551 CL 181
Start 21,419 List 1,019
Stub 4,033    
Total 48,660 Total 1,341
Other pages
Category 0
Disambig 0
Draft 0
File 0
Portal 0
Project 0
Redirect 0
SIA 5,705
Template 0
User 0
Total 5,705
Unassessed 0
Statistics
ω 218,843 Ω 4.377

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Battle of Kula Gulf • Battle of the Java Sea • Battle of Tsushima • HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) • Submarine warfare in the Black Sea campaigns (1942) • Submarine warfare in the Black Sea campaigns (1943) • Submarine warfare in the Black Sea campaigns (1944) • Condell-class frigate • Kamchatka (ship)
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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)
  • Guilmartin, John F. (2002). Galleons and Galleys. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 0304352632.
  • 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[1] (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)
Mediterranean powers
  • Anderson, Roger Charles, Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853. Liverpool. 1952 (C)
  • Crowley, Roger (2011). City of Fortune; How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571245949. (P)
  • Crowley, John (2008). Empires of the Sea:The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571232307. (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[2] (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
  • Hanson, Neil (2003). The Confident Hope of a Miracle. London: Corgi. ISBN 0552149756.(P)
  • Loades, David, The Tudor Navy: An administrative, political and military history. Scolar Press, Aldershot. 1992. ISBN 0-85967-922-5 (A)
  • Moorhouse, Geoffrey (2005). Great Harry's Navy. London: Weidenfeld & Jackson. ISBN 0297645447. (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)
  • Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-101-3. OCLC 12613723.
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[3]
South American navies
  • Scheina, Robert L. (1987). Latin America: A Naval History 1810–1987. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-295-8. (A)
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