The navies of the Baltic Sea Region during the Interwar Period: development of fleets, organizations and naval strategies 1918–1939

Contents

Arto Oll, Hele Kiimann: Introduction

Heiko Herold: The imperial German Navy fighting in its own backyard: the Baltic Sea 1914–1918

Michael Epkenhans: The German Navy in the inter-war years: the problems of developing a new strategy against the background of a lost war and the restrictions of Germany’s geographic position in Europe

Matthew Heaslip: Staying Afloat – managing mission creep during the Royal Navy intervention in the Baltic

Martin Kelly: John Thornycroft’s coastal motor boats – from Britain to the Baltic

Lars Ericson Wolke: The Swedish Navy’s operational planning in the Baltic, 1918–1925

Michael H. Clemmesen: The “weary” Danish Navy in the 1920s and thereafter

Mikko Meronen: Building the Finnish naval defence in 1920s and 1930s. Imperial Russian legacy and commercial interests

Arto Oll: The Estonian Navy’s maritime defence concepts and ideas for the modernization of the fleet

Reet Naber: Formation of the maritime defence units of the Estonian Defence League

Romualdas Adomavičius: The Lithuanian naval forces in the 1930s: structure and role in the national defence strategy

Maciej Franz: Between necessity and dreams: the Polish Navy in 1918–1939

Krzysztof Kubiak: Polish-French naval relations 1920–1939. France’s unwanted ally

Baptiste Colom-y-Canals: Franco-Estonian relations during the interwar period and the “Great Stopover” of 1924

Exhibitions of the Estonian Maritime Museum 2019–2024

Estonian Maritime Museum’s publications 2022–2024