Название: British Battleships 1914-18 (2): The Super Dreadnoughts
Автор: Angus Konstam, Paul WrightИздательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 204
ISBN: 978 1780961705
Год издания: 2013
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 50
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 3,1 MB
The Royal Navy's Grand Fleet dominance at Jutland in World War I centered around big-gun battleships designed to overpower Germany's High Seas Fleet.
In 1906, the Germans began building a dreadnought fleet of their own, and while they used a smaller main gun than the British, word soon reached the British Admiralty that German designers were planning to build a new class of dreadnoughts, armed with larger guns. This raised the spectre that the British dreadnought fleet would be outgunned, and prompted the Admiralty to order the building of their own "super dreadnoughts". The first of these new dreadnoughts were laid down in 1909, and entered service three years later. The British public supported this programme, and the slogan "we want eight and cannot wait" became popular, a reference to the building of eight of these super dreadnoughts. These first eight were augmented by the Erin and the Canada, both of which were being built for foreign navies until commandeered by the Admiralty.