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The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

By Ian Johnston , Ian Buxton

Book information

Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1591140277, 9781591140276
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
88 MB (91935470 bytes)
Pages
352\0
Time added
2022-01-17 12:58:34

Description

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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