Information on the world's navies appears under the following headings: Major matters summarises by country the year's significant naval events; Glossary explains technical terms and abbreviations used throughout the book; Ship designations explains the formula used throughout the book for categorising different classes of ship; Pennant list of major surface ships lists in numerical order of pennant number the larger surface ships, indicating their type and their country of belonging, not including Soviet ships whose pennant numbers change frequently; Tables present statistical summaries on comparative strengths and composition of major fleets and types of associated equipment; Recognition silhouettes are grouped according to similarity of shape to aid visual identification; Ship reference section contains detailed information and illustrations of naval forces alphabetically by country; Addenda covers information received after the main reference section has gone to press; and lastly, Indexes...