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The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

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 | #1226064 in Books |  Naval Institute Press |  2013-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.57 x.98 x8.18l,2.65 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Inside the British Military-Industrial Complex|By Daryl Carpenter|Although there are plenty of books on the design and service histories of English capital ships, this is the only one I know of that describes in-depth the vast industrial machine that created them. Covering the era from 1889 to 1946, this book focuses on the shipyards, marine engineering works, armor plants, and| |"Technical descriptions in the book are fascinating as is the discussion and explanation of the commercial development of the supporting industries. Superbly written text is supported by numerous black and white photographs, plans - and pieces of equipment. Tr

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. Th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships   |  Ian Johnston, Ian Buxton. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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