Название: Battleship Ramillies: A Final Salvo
Автор: Ian Johnston
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322070
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB/MOBI
Страниц: 256
Размер: 34,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique – she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle (honouring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so; Ramillies survived the war).?