WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1860-1905
Written by David K. Brown
Published by Caxton Editions
in 2003
ISBN: 1840675292
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WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1860-1905
Written by David K. Brown.
Stock no. 1829701
1st thus.
2003.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
The technological changes which transformed warships from the fully-rigged broadside ironclads of the mid-nineteenth century, through the centre battery ships, early turret vessels and barbette ships, to the turbine-powered Dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers which were to fight in the First World War. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and diagrams. 224 pages including index. ISBN: 1840675292. A lovely copy!
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WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1860-1905
Written by David K. Brown.
Stock no. 1828109
1st thus.
2003.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The technological changes which transformed warships from the fully-rigged broadside ironclads of the mid-nineteenth century, through the centre battery ships, early turret vessels and barbette ships, to the turbine-powered Dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers which were to fight in the First World War. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and diagrams. 224 pages including index. ISBN: 1840675292. Minor mark to front endpaper else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- One Broadside Batteries
- Two Edward Reed and the Centre Battery Ships
- Three Turrets and Capsize
- Four 'The Ship is a Steam Being'
- Five Steel for Ships, Armour, Engines and Guns
- Six The 'Admirals'
- Seven Cruisers and Smaller Craft
- Eight White and the Royal Sovereigns
- Nine A Majestic Fleet, 1893-1904
- Ten Proved in Battle
- Eleven Dreadnought, a Ship whose Time had Come
- Twelve The Achievement
- Appendices:
- 1. Naval Estimates - New Construction
- 2. Law of the Sea
- 3. The Use of the Admiralty Coefficient (Ad Cft)
- 4. Stability and Capsize
- 5. Rolling
- 6. The Loading and Strength of Ships
- 7. Freeboard
- 8. Subdivision and Bulkheads in Merchant Ships
- 9. Costs of Naval Defence Act Ships
- Review of Sources
- Glossary
- Index