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http://www.amazon.com/British-Battleships-World-Revised-Edition/dp/1591140536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338074021&sr=8-1
BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE
BY
R.A. BURT
PUBLISHED; ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS
FIRST EDITION 1986
THE SCARCE & CLASSIC WORK
This book presents, in one superb volume, the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era, from 1905 to 1918. Seventy years ago at Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight and the First Battle of the Falklands, mighty squadrons of these great armoured ships fought their German counterparts for command of the seas.
The book begins with Dreadnought – the revolutionary ship whose launch rendered the battleships of the world's navies obsolete – and continues to the end of the First World War. Throughout this time-frame, battleships grew ever larger, into 'super-
dreadnoughts', with bigger guns and heavier armour; alongside them, battle-cruisers evolved way beyond their initial purposes to become, in effect, fast, but tragically under-armoured battleships, ultimately developing into huge, thinly armoured leviathans with massive 18-inch guns.
All of the 50 dreadnoughts, superdreadnoughts and battlecruisers that served in the Royal Navy during the First World War are described and illustrated in this magnificent volume. Each class of ship is described in detail, beginning with its design origins, and discussing the technical and operational factors involved, including budgets, strategic, tactical and technological considerations in fulfilling the Admiralty's requirements, while bearing in mind ships planned and completing in the shipyards of rival navies. The characteristics of each class and vessel are analysed in full, with special emphasis on armament, armour and machinery.
Fully detailed data tables list ships' particulars and chart performance as compared with designed specifications. Subject headings include: displacements, dimensions, builders, armament, ammunition stowage, armour, searchlights, complements, ships' boats, costs, GM and stability, directors, wireless, freeboard, machinery, radius of action, weight breakdowns, trials and performance. Post-completion modifications and appearance changes are described, and there are also brief notes on each ship's service career.
The illustrations in the book fully complement the fine detail of the text. Line drawings comprise outboard and inboard profiles, deck plans, armour and armament layout; and there are cross-sections of gun turrets. More than 300 carefully selected photographs illustrate the text and demonstrate the technical and appearance points of note.
The author, R. A. Burt, has specialized in the study of this subject for many years, and spent thousands of man-hours gathering information and drawing the ships'
plans that illustrate this book. He is a member of several warship history societies and a discerning collector of naval photographs. He has contributed articles to naval journals, including Warship quarterly, and, with the late Pym Trotter, wrote a short pictorial guide to the Battleships of the Grand Fleet in 1982. His research has led him to delve into the dustiest archives of Britain's Admiralty Library, the Public Record Office, the National Maritime Museum and shipyards. The information he presents in this book is thus based upon primary source material: he has examined Ships' Covers, Ships' books, Ships' Logs and both contemporary and subsequent accounts of British naval construction during the first twenty years of this century. The result is a book that will become the standard work on the subject for years to come.
Jacket illustration: Benbow, cleared for action, in May 1917; a painting by Geoff Hunt. She is shown on manoeuvres in the North Sea as a unit of the 1st Battle Squadron with the Grand Fleet. Note the deflection scales on 'Y' turret and the rangefinder baffles fitted to the tripod legs, fore funnel, main derrick stump and after superstructure; they were removed from the latter two places and fitted to the topmast by June of 1917. (Such baffles may also have been fitted to other ships of the class, but this is not evident in photographs of Iron Duke and Marlborough in 1917). By this date, the main deck 6in guns had been removed and repositioned on the forecastle deck at the rear of the forward 6in battery, where they had a high command and a wide arc of fire. Note also the searchlights (twin 24m) atop X turret; these were only fitted as an experimental measure, and proved unsuccessful, being removed from all ships after a few months.
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