In the wardrooms of His Majesty's ships last week after the barges brought out the Christmas mail was a heavy oblong new book for officers to look atthe 1933 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. This compendium of the world's war boats is as useful in the Royal Navy as Who's Who is in a newspaper office. Not for many a year has any Jane edited Jane's. Since 1918 the man who has compiled photographs, diagrams, measurements of all the world's battleships has been Dr. Oscar Parkes, a London physician who pursues his studies of...
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