Legal Disclaimer (Read further below for the list of most of the books I've bought or magazines to which I subscribed at some point... )



Be advised: These productions/materials are NOT:
 

• classified

 

• derived from nor dependent upon classified materials

 

• state secrets

 

• stolen or corporate property

 

• notional/conceptual works of shipbuilders or their affiliates

 

• and absolutely not "hijackable" by any government, corporation or enterprising types

 
Real-World Vessel Crew Safety

All my drawings are based on inspirations from reading and studying publicly available documents, assembling and then dissecting kit models, and, more than anything else, using my imagination to make a kind of ship I would like to serve aboard. Also, since I visited WW II era and later period naval and merchant ships from my childhood and before and after I served 4 years in the USN, I did not see, handle, or create any classified blueprints of ships or submarines, built or conceptualized. (The only classified matter I did handle was message traffic and telecommunications publications, and some cryptographic devices in my duties as a Radioman, which had no bearing or impact upon my hobby. Moreover, various officers and enlisted personnel of both ships on which I served saw and praised my interests, but no officers set restrictions upon my hobby.)
 

I challenge all nations (seagoing or seagoing-aspiring) to dispose of certain claims to "freedom of the seas" and other aspects from which "free, armed, right-to-exercise-aggression passage" have historically enabled nations or navies to conduct expeditions or visit upon nations which could not defend themselves against assaults. I also challenge power-projecting, flag-waving nations to restrict their naval forays to own-shore coastal patrol activities and to not sail on war-waging operations not condoned by uncoerced world body members.
 
I now dare assert that any casual or other dismissal of this challenge as "unrealistic" is a direct surrendering to violent human behavior the history of which is thoroughly replete with examples glorified or washed over as having played a crucial role in the development of human achievements. Regrettably, parties in direct opposition to this stance will likely be among "old money",  power elite, oil companies, ultra-nationalists, weaponeers, and others all ultimately relying upon the excueses of preserving sovereignty, maintaining economic power and so on -- esentially, throwing the ball to the public (the fodder).
 
I believe, however, that human behavior must be subtantively and qualitatively changed before humans deserve to embark upon "expeditions" beyond the Earth. In the meantime, this body of works can serve in the entertainment (online games and fiction novels) and education (history and naval architecture) purposes.
 
And, just in case some readers are wondering... No, I did not "lift" this "internationalism" idea from any members of the US government who in 2003 "floated" a half-baked idea that didn't go far enough to appeal to a world that wants less hegemony and more stability and more internationalization. I had my own ideas well prior to 2001, but was too busy doing other things and didn't pursue the Internet (singular form) in a meaningful way. What distinguishes my ideas from those of others is that I espouse the idea depriving ALL nations of singular control of global resources and also of deprecating "power-projecting nations' flag-waving navies to  nothing more than own-shore coastal patrol units", making such vessels scourges of the world if they operate on the high seas. Again, I espouse the idea that NO one nation should be in control of the world or its resources, nor should a nation be allowed to plunder a weaker one for its resources. Nations may underwrite and fund many activities, but I hold in great disdain, the greatest excoriation, highest repudiation, and deepest rebuke any nation that financially and politically cripples the UN by its failure to pay its dues the world needs paid in the name of global stability. And, my greatest idea is the international crewing of these ships, intentionally eroding the outdated, embarrassing notion that there cannot be loyalty to peace where internationally-mixed crewing is concerned.


 B  O  O  K  S    I    B  O  U  G  H  T   or  Magazines I Subscribed To  Between 1986 and 2006

• Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser (Bailer & Meisner, 1991)
• All Hands (Navy, various years, from 1984 to 2002)
• Asia In Play
• The Asian Mystique [ "...Challenges the cultural and political steriotypes of Asia that have dominated Western thinking for more than a century."] (Sheridan Prasso, Public Affairs, 2005)
  
• Basic Military Requirements (NavEdTra 10054-E)
• Battleship Musashi: The Making and SInking of the World's Biggest Battleship (Akira Yoshimura, Kodansha International, 1991 and 1999)
  
• Bluejackets' Manual, The (various editions, from 1982 on)
• China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World (Ted C. Fishman, 2005, 2006)
  
• China Today
• Cold War At Sea (Bonner & Bonner, 2000)
• Combat Fleets of the World (Baker, 1995)
• Command at Sea (1986)
• Controllable Pitch Propellers (Keith Brownlie, 1998)
• Damage Control (Kelly, 1944)
• Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (John S. Burnett 2002)
• The Defense Policies of Nations: A Comparative Study (Doughlas J. Murray & Paul R. Viotti, 1994)
• DOD Fact File, US (US DOD, 1993)
• The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943 (Alan Schom, Norton & Company, 2004)
  
• The Encyclopedia of the World's Military Aircraft (Aerospace Publishing Ltd, 2002)
• FAS.org (Federation of American Scientists)
• Fathom (Navy, various years, from 1984 on)
• Fireman (BuPers/NavPers 10520-C)
• Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice (Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.; Naval Institute Press, 1986)
• Foreign Affairs
• Foreign Policy
• From the Sea (US Navy, ~1993)
• Great Naval Disasters, US Naval Accidents in the 20th Century (Bonner & Bonner, 1998)
• Guide to the Soviet Navy, 4th Ed. (Polmar, 1986)
• Gung Ho (1981forward)
• Gunner's Mate M 1 & C (NavEdTra 10200-D) (US Navy's notice: "Distribution Statement A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.")
• Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (John Agnew, Temple University Press, 2005)
• High Seas Security (Camper, 1993)
• How Weapons Work (early/mid 1980's) (library book I didn't purchase, but read)
• Index on Censorship for Free Expression
• International Combat Arms (1986 forward while in publication)
• International Politics on the World Stage (John T. Rourke, 1994)
• Introduction to Naval Engineering Systems (Navy, 1977) (I don't own a copy of this one, though. I could get it for $60.00 at the local book store, but so many of my other books I've bought since I first saw INES have made it nearly redundant. Besides, much of the material is more Navy-furnished or Navy-published than US Naval Institute Press owned.)
• Iowa Battleships, The (Muir, 1987/1991))
• It's Your Ship, Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Abrashoff, 2002)
• J-Ships (magazine)
  
• Jane's Fighting Ships (from 1980's on)
• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Bruce Cumings, 2005, 1997)
  
• Lookout Training Handbook (NavEdTra 389-01-00-79)
• Military Requirements for Petty Officer 3 & 2 (NavEdTra 10056-E1)
• Military Requirements for Petty Officer Second Class (NavEdTra 10045-A,) (US Navy's notice: "Distribution Statement A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.")
• Modern Fighting Helicopters (Bill Gunston & Mike Spick, 1986 & 1998)
• Modern Ship Design (Thomas C. Gillmer, 1975)
• Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (David Shambaugh, 2002)
• Missile Inbound, The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf (Levinson & Edwards, 1997)
• Modern Naval Aviation , Illustrated Guide, (and others) (1980's forward, Salamander/Arco Press)
• Modern US Navy Destroyers (Tomajczyk, 2001)
• Modern US Navy Submarines (Robert and Robin Genat, 1997)
• Muckle's Naval Architecture (W. Muckle/D.A. Taylor, 1987)
• Naval Forces International (1985)
• Naval Shiphandling (Capt R.S. Crenshaw, Jr./Naval Institute Press, 1960)
• Naval Review (magazine)
• Naval Terms Dictionary (Beach, 1990)
• Navies of World War 3 (Preston, 1984)
• The Navy Adventure: Navy Training Programs (NavCruitCom, 1980, includes nice cutaway of DD-963)
• Navy Times (various years, from 1983 on)
• Navy International (1991)
• Navy: What's in it for You (US Navy Brochure, 1992) (Shows GTM PCC in CCS)
• North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power (Time Beal, 2005)
  
• Nuclear Warships and Naval Nuclear Weapons: A Complete Inventory (Handler & Arkin /Neptune Papers Nbr 2, May 1998)
• On a Destroyer's Bridge (Frost, 1930)
• The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas P. M. Barnett)
• Petty Officer Indoctrination Course (NavEdTra 10820-B)
• Principles of Naval Engineering (Prepared by Bureau of Naval Personnel, NAVPERS 10788-B, 1970, "For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office Washington DC 20402- Price $6.75)
• Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels (1985)
• Scale Ship Modeler (1987)
• Sea Classics ( various years from 1983 forward)
• Sea Power (Japanese version of their own nation)
• Sea Power (US publication various years from 1983 forward)
• Seamanship Rate Training Manual (NavEdTra 10120-H)
• Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet (Polmar, 1985)
• Surface Warfare (Navy, 1984 forward)
• Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy (Stephen M. Walt, 2002)
• Tiger Cruise (Douglas Morgan, 2000 (fiction work))
• US Naval Developments (Breemer, 1983)
• US Naval Institute Proceedings (from 1981 forward)
• US Nuclear Submarines (Arnold Meisner, 1990)
• USS (name a ship) web sites (public side of web sites of USN ships)
• Watch Officer's Guide (9th edition, Noel)
• Warship Boneyards (Bonner & Bonner, 2001)
• Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century (Allen Hammond, 1998)
• World Fact Book (CIA, 1997-1998 )
• World Naval Weapons Systems, Naval Institute Guide (Norman Friedman, 1991)
• The Yard (Sanders, 1999)

Because my memory is not among the best, I constantly have to refer to much material and become overwhelmed at times, having to "discard" some things in order to move ahead...

By no means do I claim to be any sort of expert.  I am most certainly not a naval architect, and I posess no engineering or architectural certs, etc. However, I sometimes consider that I could be called an "unofficial naval ship designer", since a number of people who looked at my designs thought I was a naval architect.