Year: 1967 Language: English Author: Fleming H.M. Genre: Guide Publisher: Ian Allan Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 366 Description: Iceage with in this Combined Volume are all the British and German ship dealt with in the separate ABC series Warships of World War I, (Section One), Cruisers (Section Two), Destroyers (Section Three), Miscellaneous Warships (Section Four), and Submarines (Section Five). Section One deals with the British and German post-Dreadnought bd and battle cruisers. British pre-Dreadnoughts are also summarised, pee soon relegated to secondary duties after the outbreak of war, many having ha their big guns transferred to monitors. Armoured cruisers, their contemporaries, are not included since, unlike battle cruisers, their main armament consisted of guns of smaller calibres. Since the development of the battleship from the “Wooden Wall” to the Dreadnought took only 45 years (1861-1906) a brief outline of this period of intensive progress is included. Another short account of naval events 1906-1918 sketches in the dramatic background of history against which the great ships described played their major roles. Two of the ships described were still in existence in 1959, H.M.S. Canada as the Chilean A/mirante Latorre and the German S.M.S. Geeben as the Turkish Yavuz. Recognition features of both British and German ships are shown diagrammatically on pages 46-7 and 58-9.
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ABC Warships of WW 1 - Combined Volume
Language: English
Author: Fleming H.M.
Genre: Guide
Publisher: Ian Allan
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 366
Description: Iceage with in this Combined Volume are all the British and German ship dealt with in the separate ABC series Warships of World War I, (Section One), Cruisers (Section Two), Destroyers (Section Three), Miscellaneous Warships (Section Four), and Submarines (Section Five). Section One deals with the British and German post-Dreadnought bd and battle cruisers. British pre-Dreadnoughts are also summarised, pee soon relegated to secondary duties after the outbreak of war, many having ha
their big guns transferred to monitors. Armoured cruisers, their contemporaries, are not included since, unlike battle cruisers, their main armament consisted of guns of smaller calibres. Since the development of the battleship from the “Wooden Wall” to the Dreadnought took only 45 years (1861-1906) a brief outline of this period of intensive progress is included. Another short account of naval events 1906-1918 sketches in the dramatic background of history against which the great ships described played their major roles. Two of the ships described were still in existence in 1959, H.M.S. Canada as the Chilean A/mirante Latorre and the German S.M.S. Geeben as the Turkish Yavuz. Recognition features of both British and German ships are shown diagrammatically on pages 46-7 and 58-9.
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