International Naval Journal

132-149

Authors: Yuri F. Katorin

In this article the history of the development of mine cruisers is described, this class arose in the end XIX of the century as the consequence of the numerous attempts to create properly nautical torpedo boats and to ensure good conditions of inhabiting to their commands. Therefore these ships had much larger displacement, on them was established the intensive artillery armament, frequently due to weakening of torpedo. As the their basic destination was considered the defense of the large ships – of Battleships and cruisers – from the attacks of enemy torpedo boats in the open sea, and additional – the attack of the ships of enemy by torpedoes. However, the analysis of their combat employment confirmed that they cannot effectively protect large ships from the attacks of torpedo boats, since they considerably be inferior to the latter in the speed, since they considerably be inferior to the latter in the speed, but as the impact torpedo ships because of the large sizes and again after all low speeds also proved to be defective. With the advent of destroyers the class of mine cruisers rapidly and completely disappeared from the fleets of the leading sea powers

160-167

Authors: Lesya L. Goncharenko

The article deals with the issues of ideological background for the formation of the German Navy and its role in the colonial plans of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in the late XIX – early XX century. It is reported the main directions and peculiarities of the implementation of the naval program, in particular, the characteristics of the coverage of this issue in society and its scientific justification. Much attention is given to the problems of the Kaiser's participation in the formation and development of the fleet, as well as the Emperor's plans for the engagement of the naval forces to participate in the colonial policy of the Empire.

173-189

Authors: Valentin Ruesga Herreros

It’s consider information about the number of ships of the Spanish fleet, that not reflected in the available literature. It’s proved that the Spanish patrol vessels of «Condestable Zaragoza»-class and French auxiliary minesweepers «Fanfaron»-classare one the same ships. The conclusion is made based on comparisons of appearance and performance of ships. There was renovated list of patrol boats V-class, shows that their history can be divided into three main stages: the first, when the boats belonged to the Secretariat militarized protection, information about boats are extremely sketchy and incomplete, the second – their inclusion in the fleet, when the information about the service enough full, but almost previous history is not reflected, and only the third stage, when the change came a new generation of boats old boats, often with the same numbers, the story is full enough. An attempt to reconstruction of the biography of LAS-class boats, it is assumed that this former Soviet boat, put the Republicans during the Civil War.

197-204

Authors: Alexander F. Mitrofanov

The paper provides an overview of the naval forces of Ukraine and the Donetsk republic on the Azov Sea. Analyzes the fighting in 2014-2015. Gives a list of the loss of the ship composition. Despite the second Minsk agreement on peaceful settlement of the conflict, the Ukrainian authorities have paidthe special attention to the antilanding defense of Mariupol city. In the end, the loss of such large industrial center will cause irreparable blow to the entire Ukrainian economy. The metallurgical plants are the only suppliers of the shipbuilding and steel armor in Ukraine.