The volume lists British, American, Japanese, French, and Russian warships in commission or building at the outbreak of war, alongside engineering data such as boiler working pressures. Its tables compare the different hydraulic-test requirements imposed by British, French, German, Italian, and Board of Trade authorities. Philip Watts argues that naval architects, officers, institutional debate, and Admiralty decisions collectively created the material fleet. The paper is both a technical reference and a contemporary statement of professional self-understanding after the war.
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The 1919 naval architects' record of the wartime fleets
The 1919 Transactions preserve fleet inventories, boiler data, and Philip Watts's account of the ships available in August 1914.