Birth of the Battleship
Title | Birth of the Battleship PDF eBook |
Author | John Francis Beeler |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
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Many books have covered the technological revolution that saw wooden hulls replaced by iron and steel, sail superseded by steam, and smooth-bore muzzle-loading gun giving way to rifled breech-loaders and entirely new weapons like torpedoes. But previous works have tended to concentrate on the technology itself, largely to the exclusion of external but crucial factors, like politics, finance, administrative problems, foreign threats and strategic situations. The years 1870-1885 have also been neglected because they were seen as the 'dark ages of the Admiralty', but this book argues strongly that, although the problems faced were greater than in previous decades, it is actually a pivotal period in the emergence of the modern warship. In so doing, it counters the general perception that that those responsible for British design policy at the time were retrogressive, incompetent, or both. What emerges is a more complete picture of the problems - often insoluble - faced by the Admiralty during the era, and the sensible steps it took to meet them.
Battleship New Jersey
Title | Battleship New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stillwell |
Publisher | Naval Inst Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Battleships |
ISBN | 9780870210297 |
The author, a former crew member of the New Jersey, gives an operational history of the only U.S. battleship to participate in three wars and provides an inside perspective of warship life
The Battleship USS New Jersey
Title | The Battleship USS New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Comegno |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Battle cruisers |
ISBN | 9781891395765 |
Battleship Bismarck
Title | Battleship Bismarck PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Garzke |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 968 |
Release | 2019-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526759756 |
“A complete operational history of the Bismarck . . . with period photos [and] underwater photography of the wreck, allowing a forensic analysis of the damage.” —Seapower This new book offers a forensic analysis of the design, operation, and loss of Germany’s greatest battleship, drawing on survivors’ accounts and the authors’ combined decades of experience in naval architecture and command at sea. Their investigation into every aspect of this battleship is informed by painstaking research, including extensive interviews and correspondence with the ship’s designers and the survivors of the battle of the Denmark Strait and Bismarck’s final battle. Albert Schnarke, the former gunnery officer of Tirpitz, Bismarck’s sister ship, aided the authors greatly by translating and supplying manuscript materials from those who participated in the design and operations. Survivors of Bismarck’s engagements contributed to this comprehensive study including D.B.H. Wildish, RN, damage control officer aboard HMS Prince of Wales, who located photographs of battle damage to his ship. After the wreck was discovered in 1989, the authors served as technical consultants to Dr. Robert Ballard, who led three trips to the site. Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron has also contributed a chapter, giving a comprehensive overview of his deep-sea explorations on Bismarck and sharing his team’s remarkable photos of the wreck. The result of nearly six decades of research and collaboration, this is an “encyclopedic and engrossing” account (Naval Historical Foundation) of the events surrounding one of the most epic naval battles of World War II. And Battleship Bismarck finally resolves some of the major questions around her career, not least the most profound one of all: Who sank the Bismarck, the British or the Germans?
Fallen from Grace: History of Birth and Decline of the Battleship
Title | Fallen from Grace: History of Birth and Decline of the Battleship PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Hawkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
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Birth of the Battleship
Title | Birth of the Battleship PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Lewis Cohen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Sea-power |
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Battleship at War
Title | Battleship at War PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Musicant |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
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The story of the American battleship commissioned in 1941 and its career during World War II.