The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906-1922

by D.K. Brown and David K. Brown

Book Overview

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history, and only ten years after the world's first all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet in battle at Jutland, where the work of the prewar ship designers was to meet its ultimate test. David Brown examines the development of British warships up to 1914, the responses to the demands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840675314
• ISBN13: 9781840675313
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Caxton Editions
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.9" x 11.5"