Year: 2001 Language: English Author: Taylor, Michael J.H. Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Number of pages: 326 Description: By 1914, the starting point for Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, Fred T. Jane's annual volumes of Jane's Fighting Ships had become the world's greatest naval reference work, accepted everywhere as the symbol of accuracy and authority. Without breaching security or confidences, it was an essential source of information (as it is to this day) for all concerned with naval affai rs. It shows the diversity of naval thought, des ign and application and revea ls the fundamental changes taking place in construction, propulsion and gunnery. Also, it records the two completely new elements in the naval equation, the submarine and the aircraft which, by the· end of the war were becoming integrated into what is now known as C3 (Command, Control and Communications). Th is extraordinary one-volume encyclopedia of World War I warships includes photographs, line drawings and data tables, providing the reader with instant reference to the great fleets that clashed at sea. This volume covers the many warships launched or completed during the last months of hostilities when shipyards were still working at full speed. For this new ed ition, the book has been completely redesigned in a larger and easier-to-handle format, and the addenda and amendments of the original editions have been integrated into their appropriate places. Comparison of the eight great fleets of 1914, those of Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan, France, Italy, Austro-Hungary and Russia reveals many similarities. The battlesh ips were the centre of all plans and the change in the design of these huge ships which followed the arrival of HMS Dreadnought on the scene in 1906 is most notable. Increasingly large calibre guns were mounted at the expense of the profusion of smaller weapons in previous designs. The aim at that time was simple: to provide the heaviest broadside possible at the greatest range attainable. Another major development recorded in these pages is the building of aircraft carriers, first by adaptation and then, in the closing stages of the war, from the keel up. Learning was swift and frequently painful, but naval warfare would never be the same again. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I is a volume for anyone interested in nautical history and in the history of World War I.
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Jane`s fighting ships of World war I
Language: English
Author: Taylor, Michael J.H.
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Number of pages: 326
Description: By 1914, the starting point for Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, Fred T. Jane's annual volumes of Jane's Fighting Ships had become the world's greatest naval reference work, accepted everywhere as the symbol of accuracy and authority. Without breaching security or confidences, it was an essential source of information (as it is to this day) for all concerned with naval affai rs. It shows the diversity of naval thought, des ign and application and revea ls the fundamental changes taking place in construction, propulsion and gunnery. Also, it records the two completely new elements in the naval equation, the submarine and the aircraft which, by the· end of the war were becoming integrated into what is now known as C3 (Command, Control and Communications).
Th is extraordinary one-volume encyclopedia of World War I warships includes photographs, line drawings and data tables, providing the reader with instant reference to the great fleets that clashed at sea. This volume covers the many warships launched or completed during the last months of hostilities when shipyards were still working at full speed. For this new ed ition, the book has been completely redesigned in a larger and easier-to-handle format, and the addenda and amendments of the original editions have been integrated into their appropriate places.
Comparison of the eight great fleets of 1914, those of Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan, France, Italy, Austro-Hungary and Russia reveals many similarities. The battlesh ips were the centre of all plans and the change in the design of these huge ships which followed the arrival of HMS Dreadnought on the scene in 1906 is most notable. Increasingly large calibre guns were mounted at the expense of the profusion of smaller weapons in previous designs. The aim at that time was simple: to provide the heaviest broadside possible at the greatest range attainable. Another major development recorded in these pages is the building of aircraft carriers, first by adaptation and then, in the closing stages of the war, from the keel up. Learning was swift and frequently painful, but naval warfare would never be the same again.
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I is a volume for anyone interested in nautical history and in the history of World War I.
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