A. D. BAKER III is a highly regarded naval authority known for his work as an illustrator and writer. His line drawings appear in several books, including others in this series. He was the long-time editor of The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World and a contributing editor to the journals Warship International and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.

Articles by Arthur Baker

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker, III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
August 1994
Less well known than the larger LSTs of World War II were the 494 Landing Ship, Medium, amphibious-warfare ships of the LSM-1 class, completed between April 1944 and February 1946 ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker, III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
June 1994
The first of the modern U.S. Navy’s new Osprey-class coastal minehunters was originally to have been number MHC-1. However, there had already been an MHC-1 through 50, and a ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
April 1994
In addition to the larger AV-series seaplane tenders it operated from the 1920s to the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy also employed three classes of smaller ships in support of ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
February 1994
During World War II, the U.S. Navy operated a number of seagoing yachts that had been taken over from their owners by the U.S. Maritime Commission. A few of the ...

Lest We Forget ...

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
May 1994
The U.S. Coast Guard's Ingham (WPG-35) served with steady distinction in a career spanning over I 50 years of active service from her commissioning in September 1936 as one of ...

Combat Fleets

By A. D. Baker III
April 1994
This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
December 1993
When the diesel-powered Edsall (DE-129)-class destroyer escort USS Camp (DE-251) was commissioned on 16 September 1943 with a Coast Guard crew under the command of Lieutenant Commander P. B. Mavor ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
October 1993
Unique in being the last World War II building program destroyer laid down by the U.S. Navy, the Robert A. Owens (DD-827) (right) and her slightly older sister, the Carpenter ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by A.D. Baker III, Commander Bruce R. Linder, U. S. Navy, Commander Robert E. Bublitz, U. S. Navy (Retired), Alfred M. Beck
January 1989
Ships of the Victorian Navy Conrad Dixon. Southampton, England: Ashford Press, 1987. Distributed in the U. S. by Sheridan House, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, NY. 112 pp. Illus. Bib. $32.50 ($29.25) ...

Book Reviews

By Lieutenant Commander Michael N. Pocalyko, U. S. Navy, Captain Kenneth J. Hagan. U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired), A. D. Baker III
July 1988
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Short Bibliography By Lieutenant Commander Michael N. Pocalyko, U. S. Navy The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962is not only one of the most important ...