The Battleship Builders

The Battleship Builders
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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781612519463
ISBN-13 : 1612519466
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Book Synopsis The Battleship Builders by : Ian Johnston

Download or read book The Battleship Builders written by Ian Johnston and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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