Happy New Year 2025

I wish you the best possible 2025 !
Despite what’s happening around the world, i wish you the best, in the team’s name, for 2025. Naval Encyclopedia’s intensive schedule of last year is over, 2025 posting will be less intensive, more focusing on quality and returning on older posts as well as continuing the current coverage of all four eras (Industrial 1850-1890), WWI (1890-1918), WWII (1919-1945) and the cold war (1947-1991).
There are still gazillons of ironclads of all countries to cover but also important frigates, notably from the RN.
For WWI we are not out of the park yet: The US cruiser (notably armoured ones) lineage is still to cover, including some pre-dreadnoughts. Important ships of many nations also, notably French, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and others) with rewrites of many old articles.

For WW2 a new development tree with Italian destroyers and continuation of WW2 RN destroyers before concluding with the last “classics” such as the Battle/Daring in 2026. For the US WW2, the escort destroyer tree, for Japan, the whole WW2 destroyer tree, for Germany its torpedo boats (2026 for Italy), but also French and Swedish destroyers, and those of many other countries. For subs, completing both the US (up to the Gato class) and British sections, Italian section, starting the Dutch sub lineage, and Japanese lineage.

For the cold war, albeit most navies had been covered, smaller ones still will be, from San Salvador to Zanzibar, plus many sections left to cover for many cold war fleets. In the transition between WW2 and the cold war, the last three US conventional cruisers sub-classes are also to be covered, as well as British ASW frigates, but also those of all other navies, plus a lot of submarines: The last Soviet ones, last British ones, Specialized USN subs, European subs (Italy, France, Netherlands, Sweden, etc.). Start of a new, important tree, the JSDMF (all categories). And covering the current Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, North Korean and Iranian navies.
Also a return to posters and profiles…
Naval Enyclopedia is currently still open to authors, and is in dire need of a spellchecker/proofreader.

Original Kriegsmarine poster, 2002.

New Kriegsmarine Poster “real thing” in development, 2025.