NELSON TO VANGUARD: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1923-1945
Written by David K. Brown
Published by Chatham Publishing
in 2000
ISBN: 1861761368
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NELSON TO VANGUARD: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1923-1945
Written by David K. Brown.
Stock no. 1828199
1st.
2000.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The author brings to account the Royal Navy's response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and the construction of the fleet with which the Navy fought the Second World War. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 224 pages including index. ISBN: 1861761368. Pale damp stain (coffee?) to top edge of text block, also to top of pastedowns, endpapers, and inside edge of dustwrapper. Otherwise a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Sir Stanley V Goodall, RCNC
- Introduction
- One Battleships
- Two Fleet Carriers
- Three Smaller and Cheaper Carriers
- Four Cruisers
- Five Destroyers
- Six Submarines
- Seven Escorts
- Eight Miscellaneous Vessels
- Nine Modernisations, Updates and Scrapping
- Ten Wartime Damage
- Eleven Production and Repair
- Twelve What is a Good Design:
- Appendices
- 1. The Goodall Diaries
- 2. Instructions for the Director of Naval Construction
- 3. DNC Office Procedures
- 4. The Washington Treaty 1922-Main Provisions
- 5. The London Treaty 1930
- 6. The London Treaty 1936
- 7. Underwater Explosions
- 8. Anti-Destroyer Guns
- 9. Docks
- 10. Shore Bombardment
- 11. Admiral Sir Reginald GH Henderson
- 12. The Strength of Ships
- 13. Damage to RN Armoured Hangar Carriers
- 14. Wartime Cruiser Building
- 15. D Quality Steel
- 16. Anti-Aircraft Warfare between the Wars
- 17. USN Destroyer Machinery
- 18. Submarine Stability etc
- 19. Seakeeping
- 20. The Fleet Train
- Index