Название: The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
Автор: Ian Buxton
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1591140277
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 27,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.