What Happened to the Battleship

What Happened to the Battleship
Title What Happened to the Battleship PDF eBook
Author Chris Baker
Publisher Seaforth Publishing
Pages 418
Release 2022-07-30
Genre History
ISBN 1399070118

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In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be spotted around the world, and eleven of them were in or around Tokyo Bay for the surrender itself. What happened to all those ships? This new book takes a fresh look at the slow demise of the battleship. It examines the decisions made by the major world powers after 1945, and their aspirations to retain battleships in their navies, despite financial stringency. It places the history and role of battleships after 1945 in their geo-political context, centered around the Cold War and the need for the West to face down an aggressive Soviet Union. It also examines the impact on battleships of operational analysis of the Second World War and new technological developments, notably the atom bomb and the guided missile. The book uses the wealth of information from ship’s books, ship’s logs and gun logs to document in considerable detail what the ships actually did after the Second World War, with a particular focus on those of the Royal Navy. It covers United States battleship operations in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, as well as the deterrent role played by battleships for NATO from the 1950s to the 1990s. Finally, it brings the story up to date by documenting the preservation as museum ships of the eight dreadnoughts which still exist today in the United States. Extensively illustrated with photographs of the huge range of activities of battleships after 1945, from their use as Fleet flagships to Royal or Presidential yachts and more poignantly as target ships, this new book will appeal equally to the historic ship enthusiast and naval specialist, and provide a novel perspective through a battleship–shaped lens on late twentieth-century history for the more general reader.

The "Maine"

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Title The "Maine" PDF eBook
Author Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Publisher
Pages 390
Release 1899
Genre
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Battleship

Battleship
Title Battleship PDF eBook
Author Martin Middlebrook
Publisher Penguin Uk
Pages 366
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780141391199

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On Wednesday 10 December 1941, the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse.

The Battleship Book

The Battleship Book
Title The Battleship Book PDF eBook
Author Robert M. Farley
Publisher Wildside Press LLC
Pages 357
Release 2015-12-17
Genre History
ISBN 1479405574

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From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato, here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship. Separate essays and sidebars look at events and lore that greatly affected battleships.

The Mighty Hood

The Mighty Hood
Title The Mighty Hood PDF eBook
Author Ernle Bradford
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 104
Release 2014-04-01
Genre History
ISBN 1497625742

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The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. When it was launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, “The Mighty Hood” was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for all the Hood’s might, it had one fatal flaw: armor had been sacrificed for speed. In 1941, the Hood confronted the legendary German warship Bismarck. A salvo from the enemy penetrated the Hood’s ammunition magazine, destroying the British ship and killing all but three of its crew. The brutal defeat marked the end of the Royal Navy’s dominance. But it also inspired Winston Churchill’s vow to sink the Bismarck—a vow that in time was fulfilled. Through oral history and documentary research, Ernle Bradford chronicles the Hood’s career from design to demise, with colorful insight into life aboard the ship as well as its broader historical significance.

Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground
Title Sacred Ground PDF eBook
Author Edward Tabor Linenthal
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 356
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN 9780252061714

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"Examines how different groups of Americans have competed to control, define, and own cherished national stories relating to events at four battlefields."--Amazon.com.

Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century

Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century
Title Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century PDF eBook
Author Bernard Ireland
Publisher HarperResource
Pages 200
Release 1996
Genre History
ISBN

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All the greatest battleships from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.