The ships of the Jacob van Heemskerck class of the Royal Netherlands Navy were constructed as specialised air defence frigates. It was a further developement out of the Standard-frigates. Two ships were built. They served for about twenty years in the R.Neth. navy. Since 2005 both are in service as the Almirante Latorre class in the Chilean Navy.

To counter a growing threat of Soviet submarines and aircraft shortly after WWII, the Royal Netherlands Navy ordered new ships. Classified as ASW destroyer (onderzeebootjager), but so close to contemporary destroyers in terms of specifications. Still suffering from the havoc of war the national industry managed to design and construct these ships in two classes.

Drenthe was of the more capable Type 47B series.

De Zutphense Stadts Aeck

Constant Willems

Wapens ter zee

Jan Piet Puype

Hollands fluitschip ontloopt Barbarijse kapers

Peter Sigmond

17e-eeuwse Hollandse Scheepsbouwliteratuur (deel 4)

Ab Hoving

Een vloedpunter voor de veiligheid

Jan G. Braaksma

In Memoriam Jan Gerrit Braaksma

Redactioneel

Duitse Rotterdam-konvooien 1940-1945 (deel 5)

Jac. J. Baart

Pijpenleggers verbinden werelden

Wouter Heijveld

In Memoriam Cor Emke

Ab Hoving

'Hoy varen was mijn plesier'

Meindert Seffinga

Museum Vlaardingen...

In dit nummer van Scheepshistorie staan de volgende artikelen:

- Een biografie van de IJsselkogge - Wouter B. Waldus

- Relatie tussen kanonnen opgevist bij Messina en Terschelling - Nico Brinck

- Oorlogschepen voor het buitenland - Wilma Gijsbers en Ab Hoving

- Erven van scheepstimmerwerven in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam - Wilma Gijsbers

- Hollandse scheepsbouw volgens Peter de Grote - Ab Hoving

- De schepen van de achttiende-eeuwse walvisvaart - Jaap R. Bruijn

- Jan Blanken waterbouwkundige ...

Taking the height of the poleFor the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nautical handbooks on celestial navigation appeared in print with declination tables written for 1517-1520. They explained how you can find your position taking the height of the sun or the Pole Star. And which course to steer to find your port. These are techniques that have proven their value through the centuries. In this book Siebren van der Werf a...

Die Polhöhe

Für den Navigator des 16. Jahrhunderts bedeutete die Bestimmung der Polhöhe seinen Breitengrad zu finden. Vor 500 Jahren erschienen erstmals als Druck nautische Handbücher zur astronomischen Navigation mit Deklinationstafeln für die Jahre 1517-1520. Sie erklärten, wie man seine Breite anhand der Höhenmessung von Sonne oder Polarstern ermitteln konnte. So wusste man, welchen Kurs man nehmen musste, um sicher seinen Hafen zu erreichen. Die Techniken haben über Jahrhunderte be...

HMCS Haida was a destroyer of the Tribal-class serving in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943-1963. During World War II, Haida sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. In the Korean War the ship did two tours of duty.

Nowadays she is the only surviving Tribal-class destroyer out of 27 units that were constructed between 1937-1945 for the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Navy.

Van de Velde onvoltooid - Martin Bijl

Een Schotse Zeeman - Anton Wiegman

Een theoretisch bekeken scheepswrak - Ab Hoving

Het vergaan van de Woestduyn, 1779 - Ab Hoving

Twee schilderijen - Ab Hoving en Jeroen ter Brugge

Franse kaapvaart: Les corsaires - Sien van Eeten

Overgave Nieuwediep 1799 - Elisabeth van Blankenstein

De kleur blauw in de historische scheepsbouw - Dr. Joachim Müllerschön

Paul van Vlissingen en de ‘Fabriek met de lange naam’ - Peter Sigmond

Barend Jacobs Duyf - Jan Pra...

Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/76. Their primary task was area air defence. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander Netherlands Task Group).

Because of their large radome (wich housed a 3D radar antenna) the ships had the nickname “Kojak” after the bald-headed actor in the famous action crime tv-series.

This is the third and final book about the North American bomber B-25 Mitchell. Volumes 1 and 2 of the 'Mitchell Masterpieces' described B-25s in service with the U.S. Armed Forces and with other foreign military forces. Volume 3 is about B-25s operating in civil service after World War II.

Mitchell Masterpieces 3 contains an overview of the companies, organisations and owners of the B-25s after 1945. This history of the B-25 in civil service contains around 900 pictures, many in colour.