H M S Warspite

H  M  S  Warspite
Author: Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Publsiher: London : Collins
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1957
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: STANFORD:36105035285100

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The Battleship Warspite

The Battleship Warspite
Author: Ross Watton
Publsiher: US Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 1591140390

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Arguably one of the finest capital ship designs of all time, Warspite and her sister ships were the prototypes of the modern fast battleship, the ultimate development of the dreadnought type. Warspite's fighting career spanned two generations -- from the last great surface engagement between battle fleets at Jutland in 1916, to the dawn of the missile age (she was badly damaged by a guided bomb in 1942), with battle honours that also included Narvik, Matapan, and the D-Day landings. Book jacket.

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914 1919

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914 1919
Author: Troels Hansen
Publsiher: Super Drawings in 3D
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 836459673X

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In 1906, the British launched one of the most revolutionary ships ever built HMS Dreadnought. Besides being a big ship powered by turbines the ship was constructed with "all big guns . This meant that the earlier battleships were typically equipped with just 4 main guns intended to engage other battleships plus an additional number of smaller guns to engage cruisers. The Dreadnought dispensed with the smaller weapons to increase her main battery to 10 12in guns, making her broadside twice as powerful as any other capital ship in the world. This design effectively rendered all other battleships obsolete, and sparked a naval shipbuilding race between the naval powers which consumed a huge portion of their industrial capacity up to and during WWI. Several battleships of different classes were built but learning that both Japan and the United States were implementing 14 inch guns decisive measures were taken to keep the Royal Navy ahead the Queen Elizabeth class with it s fearsome 15 inch guns were therefor introduced. In 1913 the British launched HMS Queen Elizabeth which was often described as a Super Dreadnought: bigger, faster, and more heavily armed and armored than any other ship. During the next few years 4 more ships where launched."

The Battleship HMS Warspite

The Battleship HMS Warspite
Author: Witold Koszela
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-04-19
Genre: Ships
ISBN: 8362878924

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The battleship HMS Warspite is packed with countless drawing sheets and color profiles of the famous ship.

HMS Warspite

HMS  Warspite
Author: Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Publsiher: Sphere
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1957
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0860071723

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Warspite

Warspite
Author: Iain Ballantyne
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2010-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781783461288

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“The dramatic career of the Queen Elizabeth class super-dreadnought, which fought with such distinction throughout two World Wars . . . a great story.” —White Ensign Association No warship name in British naval history has more battle honors than HMS Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1. Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean during WW2. She was the flagship of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham when he mastered the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean, her guns inflicting devastating damage on the enemy at Calabria in 1940 and Matapan in 1941. She narrowly avoided destruction by the Japanese carrier force that devastated Pearl Harbor. She provided crucial fire support for Allied landings in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Walcheren. A lucky ship in battle, she survived dive-bombers off Crete and glide bomb hits off Salerno. But this is not just the story of a warship. Wherever possible the voices of those men who fought aboard her speak directly to the reader about their experiences. Warspite is also the story of a great naval nation which constructed her as the ultimate symbol of its imperial power and then scrapped her when the sun set on that empire.

Battleship Warspite

Battleship Warspite
Author: V. E. Tarrant
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Battleships
ISBN: 0853689717

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The Battleship Warspite

The Battleship Warspite
Author: Robert Brown
Publsiher: Seaforth Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526719371

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The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. They were very large - more than 12 feet long for capital ships - highly detailed, annotated and labelled, and drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes. Today these plans form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is the first of a series based entirely on these draughts which will depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail - complete sets in full colour, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible.