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Not sure if it's already listed, but there's a veritable treasure-trove at http://www.history.navy.mil/ --they have the complete Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships while last I knew HazeGrey...

Vol, thanks--I already hang out at ThreeDecks a lot, and while they give you the technical numbers there's a lot of room for variation on "X feet over gundeck, Y tons BM, 32 guns". And once I get the...

Uh, guys, when I say "design commentary"--while I appreciate the referrals :)--I'm looking for things like "HMS Such-and-such was basically the design of HMS Other Ship chopped in half with a...

Can anyone recommend a book or site with technical commentaries on design of various ship classes, what evolved from what, like how the late M.J. Whitley covered warships of WWII?

An earlier version of 3D is linked above, but the new site is a lot better.

When I asked Andrea for a start-point, he recommended http://www.threedecks.org . It's a lot to take in at once for somebody whose paradigm is the relatively 'standardized' designs of WWII, but I...