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Fascinating history charts the development of these warships from the first French floating batteries to the famous dreadnoughts and gives all manner of lessons to navies today as they wrestle with the challenges of rapidly changing technology.
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Fascinating history charts the development of these warships from the first French floating batteries to the famous dreadnoughts and gives all manner of lessons to navies today as they wrestle with the challenges of rapidly changing technology.
Author=Richard Hill
Pages=240
Published=2002
Book Condtion=Ex public library book.library plate and stamp.generally excellent condition
| Weight | 410 g |
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A detailed historical encyclopedia of ships of the world. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout.
Launched in 1860, Warrior was the first ever iron-hulled, sea-going armoured ship, and for a number of years was the most powerful warship in the world. By a fluke of history the ship also survived to be the last of the broadside ironclads, and was rescued from an obscure existence as a refuelling hulk in West Wales to become the subject of the most ambitious ship restoration project ever mounted. To satisfy the modelmaker, enthusiast and technical historian, the book is illustrated in depth with many of the plans drawn up for the reconstruction, as well as numerous photographs of the ship and her fittings taken during her service career and during reconstruction.
The Tribal class destroyers possibly saw more action over a longer period of time, and over a greater distance of the globe, than any other destroyer. They took part in almost every Home Fleet and Mediterranean action, the D-Day operations, the East Indies, the South-West amphibious landings, the battle for Leyte gulf, the surrender of Japan and the Korean War. This book offers a biography of each of the 27 vessels that made up the Tribal class. Technical details are provided, together with lists of commanding officers and pennant numbers. With more than 100 photographs, and in addition, every ship’s crest is also illustrated.
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