Janes Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of each country's navy and coast guard, along with their weapons and aircraft. Included are ship names, construction data, size, speed, range, compleme
Cover of the first edition, 1898
Fred T. Jane late in life
Fred T. Jane with his Naval War Game in 1898
Fred T. Jane's illustrations on page 201 in the 1898 edition
The Naval Annual was a periodical that provided considerable text and graphic information which had previously been obtainable only by consulting a wide range of often foreign language publications. D
Janes Fighting Ships
…record all of the armoured warships serving in the world's navies. His plan was to publish this record with the title Ironclads of the World. Initially, Brassey's Naval Annual and various Royal Navy periodicals were the source of inspiration for his drawings. In later years, he became acquainted with a collector of warship…