Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860-1905
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1840675292 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
David K. Brown is retired as the Deputy Chief Naval Architect of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors and is the author of many books, including "A Century of Naval Construction", "Before the Ironclad", and "The Future Surface Fleet", among others.
Full accounts are given of the famous events of the period, such as the loss of the turret ship "Captain", the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, the ramming of the "Victoria" by the "Camperdown" in 1893, the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Warship Development from 1860-1905. Illustrated throughout with many rare contemporary photographs, this is an indispensable study of one of the most exiting periods in warship development.
From the Publisher Published with the cooperation of the National Maritime Museum.
"I really enjoyed this book simply because it intersected my interest in" according to Deborah Sue St Clair. I really enjoyed this book simply because it intersected my interest in ship design and naval history. If you yawn at the first sentence don't read on and forget about David Brown's book.What Warrior marked was the Royal Navy's first real ironclad warship powered by steam. It is on display at Portsmouth. The book follows the design changes through Dreadnought, which was about half a century but an epoch in ship design from iron clad to steel and from an enhanced ship of the line to a modern big gun battleship. Never mind th. A perfect study This book is the second of a series of five written by D. K. Brown covering the design of ship for the Royal Navy from 1800 to the late 1980s. Brown retired from the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors as Deputy Chief Naval Architect in 1988 and is hugely qualified as well as deeply interested in history. I have read the last four of the volumes and recommend them all, but I think this one is really special. My view is that the period covered actually is one in which the rate of technology change in marine architecture and en. What You Wanted to Know Ignotus Amateur naval enthusiasts, with little or no background in naval engineering, tend to accumulate isolated bits of knowledge about warship design from Jane's, Brassey's, Conway's and random photographs and diagrams in sundry sources. Warrior to Dreadnought provides a wealth of basic information regarding the evolution of armored ships, in a single large-format volume. The information is largely technical, in keeping with the author's professional standing. Yet, it is presented in an accessible fashion. If you have read terms