Evans, D and Peattie, M. Kaigun: Strategy, Technology and Tactics in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Naval Institute Press 1991. p.17 (Kotaka, Japanese gunboat) "She carried 14-inch torpedos"; p.159 (Karuna, Japanese battlecruiser) "She and her sister had been completely outclassed..."
Jentschura, Jung and Mickel Warships of the Japanese Imperial Navy: p.20 (Sagami, Japanese PDN) "she struck a mine about 10m from Port Said".
Rodger, N.A.M. The Command of the Ocean: p.416 (Medee, French frigate) "When Ollivier's Medee was taken in 1744 the Navy board refused to buy her, so she was sold as a privateer"
Massie, R. Castles of Steel: p.372 (British dreadnought Conqueror): "She finally reached Cromarty Firth..."
Conways Maritime Press Steam Steel and Shellfire. p.35. (British screw sloop Rattler) "Rattler for all her success was far from being perfect" p.53 (French ironclad La Gloire) "She was, as her designer admitted, a dead end".
Hill, Richard War at Sea in the Ironclad Age. p.31 (US Ironclad Monitor) "She was a tough opponent and a difficult target". p.127 (Confedereate blockade runner Alabama) "She put in to Cherbourg"
Preston, A. Destroyers. p.162 (US Destroyer Sterrett) "...but she also lived to tell the tale".
Sondhaus, L. Naval Warfare 1815-1914. p.130 (Peruvian armoured frigate Independencia) "Condell then turned on the Independencia, positioned Covadonga on its bow, and raked it." p198: "Satsuma and its eventual sister-ship". p.200: (Dreadnought) "Its powerful Parsons turbine engines"
Keegan, J. The First World War. p.257 (Queen Elizabeth) "to use her 15-inch guns". p.263 (also Queen Elizabeth)"though its 15-inch guns were also to join in".
