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Battleships of the World
Author | : René Greger |
Publsiher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000056150802 |
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Written by a leading naval authority, this book provides comprehensive details on all battleships built since 1905, and the large pre-dreadnoughts built that year.
Battleships of the World
Author | : John Fidler |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473871489 |
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The battleships of the worlds navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and mounted guns on the broadside, firing solid shot.In the next half century, steel, steam and shells had wrought a transformation and by 1906, Dreadnought had ushered in a revolution in naval architecture. The naval race between Britain and Germany that followed, led to the clash of the navies at Jutland in 1916. Though this was indecisive, the German navy never again challenged the Grand Fleet of Britain during the war, and eventually the crews refused to put to sea again.Disarmament on a massive scale followed, but the battleship was still regarded as the arbiter of sea-power in the years between the wars. However, the advocates of air power were looking to the future, and when in 1940 biplane Swordfish torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm sank three Italian battleships at their moorings in Taranto, the Japanese sensed their opportunity. Their attack on the American Pacific fleet base at Pearl Harbor sank eight battleships but the American carriers were at sea, and escaped destruction. Given the distances involved, the Pacific war was necessarily a carrier war, and in the major actions of the Coral Sea, Midway, Leyte Gulf and the Philippine Sea, all the fighting was done by aircraft, with battleships reduced to a supporting role.Soon after the war ended, most were sent for scrap, and a naval tradition had come to an end.
British Battleships of World War One
Author | : R. A. Burt |
Publsiher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612519555 |
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This new edition of a classic work on British battleships is the most sought after book on the subject. Containing many new photographs from the author's exhaustive collection this superb reference book presents the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. Beginning with Dreadnought, all of the fifty dreadnoughts, 'super-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers that served the Royal Navy during this era are described and superbly illustrated with photographs and line drawings.
Allied Battleships in World War II
Author | : William H. Garzke,Robert O. Dulin |
Publsiher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013951424 |
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Contains the only published photographs of the damage sustained by HMS Prince of Wales in her action with the Bismarck. Updated to include British and French radar systems as well as extensive information on the French Richelieu-class and a sketch of the Alsace-class.
US Navy Battleships 1886 98
Author | : Brian Lane Herder |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472835048 |
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After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships. The first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which incorporated lessons from the previous ships. These initial ships set the enduring US battleship standard of being heavily armed and armoured at the expense of speed. This fully illustrated study examines these first six US battleships, a story of political compromises, clean sheet designs, operational experience, and experimental improvements. These ships directly inspired the creation of an embryonic American military-industrial complex, enabled a permanent outward-looking shift in American foreign policy and laid the foundations of the modern US Navy.
Battleships of World War II
Author | : Peter Hore |
Publsiher | : Southwater Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844763897 |
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This authoritative reference book charts the development and history of the battleship from the end of World War I, through World War II and up to the present day. This period saw a dramatic change in the role of the battleship as a result of the vastly
Battleships of the World 1905 1970
Author | : Siegfried Breyer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Battle cruisers |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013957769 |
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Battleships of World War 1
Author | : Antony Preston |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047606606 |
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