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Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811735148
Military historian Smith offers an authoritative study of British battleships in World War II, highlighting stirring episodes of naval combat around the globe.
Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473890701
This volume reproduces a representative selection of official plans depicting the main types of warship with which the Royal Navy fought the Second World War. Carefully chosen from the incomparable collection at the National Maritime Museum, these range from battleships and fleet aircraft carriers, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to examples of the vast array of specialist vessels built during the war. Concentrating on as fitted drawings which show the warships as they first entered service, this collection offers an unprecedented wealth of detail on the equipment and fittings of some of the Royal Navys most famous ships. It also documents how their appearance changed over time, since many of the plans include alterations and additions made in different shades of ink and wash, and here printed in full colour for instant understanding of the modifications. With an accompanying text and detailed individual captions by one of the leading experts in the field, this book provides an insight into the warship design process itself, and explains for the benefit of ship modellers and technical historians which types of plan contain the most valuable information. For anyone with more than a passing interest in warship design and construction, this book will be a revelation.
Author : John Roberts
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1591145937
"This volume reproduces a representative selection of official plans depicting the main types of warship with which the Royal Navy fought World War II. Carefully chosen from the incomparable collection at the National Maritime Museum, these range from battleships and fleet aircraft carriers, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to examples of the vast array of specialist vessels built during the war. Concentrating on "as-fitted" drawings which show the warships as they first entered service, this collection offers an unprecedented wealth of details of some of the Royal Navy's most famous ships. It also documents how their appearance changed over time. Printed in full color to highlight the modifications, alterations and additions appear in different shades of ink and wash. With text and detailed individual captions by one of the leading experts in the field, this book provides an insight into the warship design process and explains for the benefit of ship modelers and technical historians which types of plan contain the most valuable information." -- publisher.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473812802
A history of the early days of Royal Navy destroyers, and how they evolved to meet new military threats. In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest, exponents of sea power. Not surprisingly, Britain’s traditional rivals invested heavily in the new technology that promised to overthrow the naval status quo. The Royal Navy was also quick to adopt the new weapon, but the British concentrated on developing counters to the essentially offensive tactics associated with torpedo-carrying small craft. From these efforts came torpedo catchers, torpedo-gunboats and eventually the torpedo-boat destroyer, a type so successful that it eclipsed and then usurped the torpedo-boat itself. With its title shortened to destroyer, the type evolved rapidly and was soon in service in many navies, but in none was the evolution as rapid or as radical as in the Royal Navy. This book is the first detailed study of their early days, combining technical history with an appreciation of the changing role of destroyers and the tactics of their deployment. Like all of Norman Friedman’s books, it reveals the rationale and not just the process of important technological developments.
Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Chatham Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Naval architecture
ISBN : 1861761317
This second volume in the Blueprint series describes all the principal types of WWII ships, form huge battleships and aircraft carriers down to corvettes, coastal forces and landing ships, and analyses their design and function with reference to the original plans from which the ships were built, converted or refitted. A selection of collection at the National Maritime Museum was made, and photographed so that the detail can be seen.
Author : Correlli Barnett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0571300391
The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials, together with the obligations of Empire, were less a form of strength to Britain than a weakness. Topics discussed in this book range from strategic debates in London and Washington to gripping descriptions of the Royal Navy in action: the remorseless struggle against the U-boat in the Atlantic, the desperate convoy battles in the Mediterranean and the Arctic, and the battles in the Far East. It weaves in the rivalry between Allied and German technology and the all-important secret war of the cryptographers. 'This outstanding military historian has turned to maritime war and written an authoritative, meticulously researched and stirring account of the Royal Navy's part in World War II.' Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin of Greenwich, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC
Author : Alan Raven,John Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Battle cruisers
ISBN : UOM:39015012401868
This lavishly-illustrated volume, first published in 1976 and back by popular demand, presents the full story of the design and construction of every British battleship and battlecruiser class that served in World War II--from the Queen Elizabeth class to the Vanguard. Noted authors Alan Raven and John Roberts include a comperehensive review of each ship's initial configuration and refits as well as developments in weapons, gunnery, fire control, radar, protection, and propulsion. There are also sections devoted to combat actions involving British battleships and comparisons with battleships of other navies. Six hundred photographs and illustrations, including sixteen fold-out pages, complement the authoritative history of the vessels. For other books in the battleship series, see page 26.
Author : Alan Ravan,John Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Warships
ISBN : 0851770215
Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826440495
In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten.
Author : Malcolm Wright
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848322721
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this new book by maritime artist Mal Wright both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned ships of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth are depicted in detail, along with discussion on changes of armament and electronics that effected the outward appearance of each ship.Starting with destroyers from WW1 still in service during WW2, the book progressively covers ships below cruisers, class by class, to provide a detailed and easy-to-use guide to paint schemes in use. In some cases individual ships are shown in the several schemes they wore thus providing a source that covers various periods of service. With 740 full colour illustrations, all of named vessels, this book concentrates information into a single volume to provide a one-stop reference source, and, for the first time in a single volume, it covers not just the well-known ships, but also escort vessels, minesweepers, trawlers, coastal craft and auxiliaries in sequential format. Many schemes would be difficult for the reader to have found other than with the most intensive research so that historians, collectors, modelmakers and wargamers will find this unique reference source absolutely invaluable.
Author : Alan Ravan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Warships
ISBN : OCLC:265438300
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000056857679
When Nazi Germany struck out from her borders in 1939, the untold force and efficiency of its land and air forces cut an unstoppable swath through mainland Europe. It was only at sea that their newfound might was tamed. Hitler's fear of the Royal Navy kept his most lethal ships hidden in bolt-holes, he was frightened to confront the British fleet in battle - an action the Kriegsmarine most probably would have won through superior ships and guns had they confronted their enemy. It was the dogged determination of British seafarers throughout the early part of the war that caused the final demise of the German big-ship fleet and left the U-boat and E-boat to fight Hitler's war at sea. This is the story of how, despite all odds, the RN helped Britain survive during the critical times of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Siege of Malta, the convoys to northern Russia and the D-Day landings. It also tells why their fully-stretched forces could not play the part they wished in the Eastern and Pacific war.
Author : Martin Stephen
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022026044
An assessment of the Royal Navy's admirals who played a key role in bringing about Allied victory in World War II.
Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056452157
For the first time ever for a popular audience, an extraordinary single volume that describes-and assesses in no-holds-barred fashion-every navy that took part in the Second World War
Author : Philip D. Grove,Mark J. Grove,Alastair Finlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135882570
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theaters of combat: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a critical contest, as sea-lanes provided the logistical arteries for British and subsequent Allied armies fighting on the three continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Land forces ultimately won World War II, but the battles at sea fundamentally altered the balance of military power on the ground.