Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors

by Ian Buxton and Ian Buxton

Book Overview

Little more than huge gun mountings fitted on simple, self-propelled rafts, the Royal Navy's big gun monitors were designed and built rapidly to fulfill an urgent need for heavy shore bombardment... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870211048
• ISBN13: 9780870211041
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.