Year: 2014 Language: English Author: McCart N. Genre: History Publisher: Maritime Books Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 288 Description: Those who were serving in the Royal Navy in the early 1960s will remember clearly the dramatic and significant introduction into service of the first of the County-class destroyers. Described in the press as “Super Destroyers’ they ushered in a revolutionary type of naval warfare, for they were the first warships to join the fleet armed with guided missiles —the Sea Slug, medium-range ship-to-air missile, and the Sea Cat, a short-range ship-to-air weapon. The large Sea Slug launching ramp was mounted on the quarterdeck, while the smaller Sea Cat launchers were sited abaft the after funnel. Not only did the County-class destroyers carry revolutionary new weapons systems, but their appearance was without precedent. Their sleek, clean and streamlined design was quintessentially of the 1950s, not marred by scuttles in the ships’ sides, and with their dome-topped funnels the hulls were designed to facilitate washing down with pre-wetting systems should they be required to steam through radioactive nuclear fallout.
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County Class Guided Missile Destroyers
Language: English
Author: McCart N.
Genre: History
Publisher: Maritime Books
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 288
Description: Those who were serving in the Royal Navy in the early 1960s will remember clearly the dramatic and significant introduction into service of the first of the County-class destroyers. Described in the press as “Super Destroyers’ they ushered in a revolutionary type of naval warfare, for they were the first warships to join the fleet armed with guided missiles —the Sea Slug, medium-range ship-to-air missile, and the Sea Cat, a short-range ship-to-air weapon. The large Sea Slug launching ramp was mounted on the quarterdeck, while the smaller Sea Cat launchers were sited abaft the after funnel.
Not only did the County-class destroyers carry revolutionary new weapons systems, but their appearance was without precedent. Their sleek, clean and streamlined design was quintessentially of the 1950s, not marred by scuttles in the ships’ sides, and with their dome-topped funnels the hulls were designed to facilitate washing down with pre-wetting systems should they be required to steam through radioactive nuclear fallout.
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