JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1940 (Issued January, 1941)…Forty-Fourth Year Of Issue. Editor Francis E.McMurtrie

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1940 [1941]. An important reference source for international maritime defence, this volume of particular interest in providing reliable visual and technical information for the world’s navies at the beginning of World War II. "For the first time since 1919, a War Loss section has been included in the prefatory pages. Though this cannot pretend to be exhaustive in the absence of complete information concerning enemy losses, every effort has been made to ensure its being as accurate as possible...the account given of the British Fleet is as complete as could possibly be expected in war-time. Illustrations of our latest type of aircraft carrier and of the light destroyer type known as the Hunt class…are amongst the items which we have been officially permitted to publish. A clearer plan of the new battleships of the class has been substituted for the somewhat sketchy one which was all that the authorities would allow to appear last year...In the United States Navy the biggest series of construction programmes in its history has been approved…". (Preface). oblong folio. pp. 49(ads), 528. 1 tipped-in publisher's note. frontis. frontis. profusely illus. incl. 1 tipped-in. original cloth (extremities slightly frayed, cloth bit puckered)