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Battleships in Transition - The Creation of the Steam Battlefleet, 1815-1860

By Andrew Lambert

Book information

Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0870210904
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
104 MB (108948788 bytes)
Pages
\168
Time added
2021-05-12 21:32:28

Description

Explores the period between 1815 and 1860 during which,the construction, hull design, armament and propulsion of the battlefleet changed beyond recognition. Of these factors, the introduction of steampower, driving a screw propeller, and the shell-firing gun had the most significant impact, so that the steam line-of-battleship came ot be recognized as a radical new system more than a decade before the advent of the ironclad; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; line drawings, and maps.

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