The contents list moves from naval events, foreign navies, and relative fleet strength to British maritime industries and Herbert Rosinski on cruisers and command of the sea. Other chapters cover South American navies, the Royal Navy's surveying service, the making of a merchant officer, British and foreign fleet aviation, and marine-aircraft development. A paired discussion of home defence, commerce protection, and trade defence presents naval power as a system connecting fleets to shipping, information, industry, and aviation. The list records the questions a contemporary reference work considered part of naval affairs before the Second World War.
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What the 1939 annual treated as naval power
The 1939 contents place fleet strength alongside maritime industry, surveying, merchant shipping, aviation, and trade defence, revealing a broad conception of sea power.