Construction Of Modern Battle Ships
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Author | : D. K. Brown |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848321503 |
This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors masterly account of development of Royal Navys ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval Constructor, while this personal knowledge is augmented by George Moores in-depth archival research on recently declassified material. The RN fleet in 1945 was old and worn out, while new threats and technologies, and post-war austerity called for new solutions. How designers responded to these unprecedented challenges is the central theme of this book. It covers the ambitious plans for the conversion or replacement of the bigger ships; looks at all the new construction, from aircraft carriers, through destroyers and frigates, to submarines (including nuclear and strategic), to minesweepers and small craft. The authors pay particular attention to the innovations introduced, and analyses the impact of the Falklands War. At the start of the twenty-first century the Royal Navy is still a powerful and potent force with new and a number of innovative classes, both surface and sub-surface, coming on stream. This book offers a fascinating insight into how the post-war fleet developed and adapted to the changing role of the Navy.
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Total Pages | : 1440 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Marine engineering |
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Author | : Sir John Harvard Biles |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Naval architecture |
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Author | : United States Naval Institute |
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Marine engineering |
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Author | : United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Bombardment |
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Author | : Ian Johnston |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612519466 |
The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double what Germany achieved. This heroic achievement was made possible by the country’s vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament firms and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the creation of the Grand Fleet is too often ignored.
Author | : Brian Lane Herder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472835042 |
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.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1937 |
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Author | : James Wilson King |
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Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Navies |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1940 |
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