Pen and Sword, 2012. — 797 p. The Second World War (1939-1945) Battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thrilling duel. The Rodney carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship finally succeeded in turning her adversary into twisted metal and so removed a major threat to the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 453 p. No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during...
New York: Routledge, 2005. — 316 p. This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently,...
Ian Allan, 1986. — 128 p. — ISBM: 978-0711015739 Historical notes and data of the battleships and battlecruiser classes, from Warrior, comleted in 1861, to Vanguard which was scrapped in 1960.
MacMillan Publishing Company, 1964. — 288 p. The modern battleship era began with the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906.In their day, battleships were the biggest and most complicated things built by human hand and they became symbols of national prestige. Despite their crippling costs, these mighty ships were built by many of the world's navies and many remain household names....
Maritime Books, 2001. - 113 p. This book is dedicated to one of the most famous ships in the naval history. Without any doubt HMS Vanguard was the most handsome battleship ever built for the Royal Navy. When, in 1946, Vanguard was eventually commissioned she was given a prestige role - that of a "Royal Yacht". It was the illness and subsequent death of King George VI which...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 365 p. On the third day of the war with Japan (10 December 1941), two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse. The authors re-create for the reader not only what...
Bivouac Books, 1972. — 40 p. — ISBN: 85680-002-3. In 1934 advance design work began on battleships for the Royal Navy, to replace the ageing units of the Queen Elizabeth and Royal Sovereign classes. Under the terms of the Washington and London Treaties standard displacement was restricted to 35,000 tons (i.e. fully equipped for sea but lacking fuel and feed water), and...
Maritime Books, 1987. — 100 p. — ISBM: 0907771343 HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going...
Gdansk: AJ-Press, 1999. — 116 s. — (Encyklopedia Okrętów Wojennych 14). Obszerna i wyjątkowo bogato ilustrowana monografia znanych brytyjskich pancerników z okresu II wojny światowej, prawdziwych "koni roboczych" Home Fleet. Rodney brał udział w odwecie za zatopienie Hooda na niemieckim pancerniku Bismarck. Atrakcją numeru są znakomitej jakości zdjęcia, pozyskane z Imperial War...
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