Ian Johnston 
The Battleship Builders [EPUB ebook] 
Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

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The launch in 1906 of HMS
Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double what Germany achieved. This heroic achievement was made possible by the country’s vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament firms and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the creation of the Grand Fleet is too often ignored.

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Ian Johnston, a graphic designer with a lifetime’s interest in ships and shipbuilding, is the author of
Clydebank Battlecruisers, and
The Battleship Builders, co-authored with Ian Buxton. Ian Buxton, a retired naval architect, is an acknowledged expert on shipbuilding, and is perhaps best known for his book
Big Gun Monitors. Both authors live in the United Kingdom.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 352 ● ISBN 9781612519463 ● Tamaño de archivo 92.1 MB ● Editorial Naval Institute Press ● Publicado 2013 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5022289 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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