Introduction to Weapons and Warfare Series /Spencer C. Tucker -- ix -- Chapter 1 Wooden Battleships Through the Age of Fighting Sail, 2000 B.C.-1804 -- 1 -- Chapter 2 Steam Ironclads: The Industrial Revolution at Sea, 1800-1889 -- 15 -- Chapter 3 Early Battleship Era, 1889-1905 -- 71 -- Chapter 4 HMS Dreadnought and the Battleship During World War I, 1906-1914 -- 87 -- Chapter 5 Battleships Between the World Wars, 1918-1938 -- 113 -- Chapter 6 Battleships During World War II and After, 1939 to the Present -- 125 -- Appendix Ironclads and Battleships Through History -- 153 -- Number of Completed Ironclads -- 199 -- Number of Completed Dreadnoughts -- 200 -- Lost Ironclads -- 201 -- Dreadnoughts Lost to Misadventure -- 203 -- Battleships Lost to Misadventure -- 205.