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British Town Class Cruisers

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Author : Conrad Waters
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-18

British Town Class Cruisers written by Conrad Waters and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with History categories.

This scholarly study of the Royal Navy’s WWII light cruisers presents extensive design, performance, and engagement analysis of each ship. When the Second World War began, the ten British ‘Town’ class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy. Primarily designed for the defense of trade, they played decisive roles in victories such as the Battle of the Barents Sea and the destruction of the German Scharnhorst at the North Cape. They also paid a heavy price: four of the ships were lost and the other six sustained serious damage. In this major study, Conrad Waters provides a technical evaluation of the ‘Town’ class design and its subsequent performance. He outlines the class’s origins in the context of inter-war cruiser policy, explains the design and construction process, and describes the characteristics of the resulting ships and how these were adapted in the light of wartime developments. An overview of service focuses on major engagements and presents detailed assessments of action damage. Concluding chapters explore the the modernization program that kept the remaining ships fit for service during the Cold War era. Heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs and expert drawings, British Town Class Cruisers provides a definitive reference to one of the Royal Navy’s most important warship designs.

Town Class Cruisers

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Author : Neil McCart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Town Class Cruisers written by Neil McCart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Cruisers (Warships) categories.

This book is a complete and quite detailed service history of the Town class cruisers which fought long and hard during the Second World War. All ships careers are covered, including the twilight years before they were scrapped.Well illustrated, full of facts, if the reader requires only service history, the book fills this expectation complete

British Town Class Cruisers

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Author : Conrad Waters
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2019-10

British Town Class Cruisers written by Conrad Waters and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10 with History categories.

In this major study, Conrad Waters makes extensive use of archive material to provide a technical evaluation of the "Town" class design and its subsequent performance.

Town Class Cruisers

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Author : Alan Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980

Town Class Cruisers written by Alan Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Cruisers (Warships) categories.

Ensign 5

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Author : Alan Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Ensign 5 written by Alan Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Cruisers (Warships) categories.

British Fiji Class Cruisers And Their Derivatives

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Author : Conrad Waters
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2024-05-30

British Fiji Class Cruisers And Their Derivatives written by Conrad Waters and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with History categories.

A follow-up to the author’s highly regarded history of British ‘Town’ class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development, design details and career highlights of the original class as well as the Uganda, Minotaur and Tiger designs that were derived from them. Often called the ‘Colony’ class, they were an attempt to incorporate the characteristics of the preceding ‘Town’ class within the reduced 8,000-ton limit agreed under the 1936 London Treaty. In general layout, they resembled the earlier class but adopted upright rather than raked funnels and masts. The use of a flat, transom stern conferred both hydrodynamic and internal space advantages. Not surprisingly, they turned out to be very cramped ships which struggled to accommodate all the wartime additions of extra electronics and light AA guns, as well as the increased crew needed to man them. Many of the later modifications to existing ships and alterations to the succeeding designs were attempts to alleviate these issues, most visibly the reduction of the main armament from four to three turrets. Nevertheless, they were available in significant numbers and gave sterling service across all theaters of the naval war. In this major study, Conrad Waters makes extensive use of archive material to provide a technical evaluation of the Fiji class design and its subsequent performance. He outlines the class’s origins in the context of inter-war cruiser policy, explains the design and construction process, and describes the characteristics of the resulting ships and how these were adapted in the light of wartime developments. An overview of service focuses on major engagements, assessing the extent to which the class met its designers’ expectations and detailing the consequences of action damage. Later chapters continue the story into the Cold War era, examining the various post-war modernization programs and concluding with the radical redesign of the Tiger class that produced the Royal Navy’s last conventional cruisers. Heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs, original plans and drawings by Dave Baker, John Jordan and George Richardson, British Fiji Class Cruisers provides a definitive reference to one of the Royal Navy’s most important Second World War warship designs.

British Town Class Cruisers

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Author : Conrad Waters
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-18

British Town Class Cruisers written by Conrad Waters and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with History categories.

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British ‘Town’ class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, they saw arduous service in a wide range of roles, playing a decisive part in victories such as the Battle of the Barents Sea and the destruction of the German Scharnhorst at the North Cape. The cost was heavy: four of the ships were lost and the other six all survived heavy damage, in some cases on more than one occasion. In this major study, Conrad Waters makes extensive use of archive material to provide a technical evaluation of the ‘Town’ class design and its subsequent performance. He outlines the class’s origins in the context of inter-war cruiser policy, explains the design and construction process, and describes the characteristics of the resulting ships and how these were adapted in the light of wartime developments. An overview of service focuses on major engagements, assessing the extent to which the class met its designers’ expectations and detailing the consequences of action damage. Concluding chapters continue the story into the Cold War era, examining the modernisation programme that kept the remaining ships fit for service during the 1950s. Heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings by A D Baker III, John Jordan and George Richardson, British Town Class Cruisers provides a definitive reference to one of the Royal Navy’s most important Second World War warship designs.

British Light Cruisers

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Author : Les Brown
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-30

British Light Cruisers written by Les Brown and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with History categories.

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references – books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This is the second of two volumes covering Royal Navy 6-inch cruisers of the 1930s and later, this one devoted to the ‘second generation’ designs armed with triple mountings. The Southampton class marked a return to large cruisers, but the urgent requirement for numbers led to the smaller ‘Colonies’ from which all the later RN 6-inch cruisers were derivatives. These ships formed the backbone of British cruiser forces during the Second World War. With its unparalleled level of visual information – paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs – this book is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous cruisers.

British Cruisers

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Author : Norman Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-24

British Cruisers written by Norman Friedman and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-24 with History categories.

“An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers . . . a towering work” from the author of Fighting the Great War at Sea (Warship 2012). For most of the twentieth century, Britain possessed both the world’s largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser—a multipurpose warship needed in large numbers to defend trade routes and police the empire. Above all other types, the cruiser’s competing demands of quality and quantity placed a heavy burden on designers, and for most of the interwar period, Britain sought to square this circle through international treaties restricting both size and numbers. In the process, she virtually invented the heavy cruiser and inspired the large 6in-armed cruiser, neither of which, ironically, served her best interests. This book seeks to comprehend, for the first time, the full policy background—from which a different and entirely original picture of British cruiser development emerges. After the war, the cruiser’s role was reconsidered, and the final chapters of the book cover modernizations, the plans for missile-armed ships, and the convoluted process that turned the “through-deck cruiser” into the Invincible class light carriers. With detailed appendices of ship data, and illustrated in depth with photos and A.D. Baker’s specially commissioned plans, British Cruisers truly matches the lofty standards set by Friedman’s previous books on British destroyers. “Wow! . . . Lavishly illustrated with a photograph or line plan on almost every page. The text is packed with technical information, detail, and description of design, construction and application of these important ships.” —Clash of Steel

Cruisers And La Guerre De Course

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Author : Ian H. Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-09

Cruisers And La Guerre De Course written by Ian H. Marshall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Battle cruisers categories.

The astonishingly effective campaign waged by a handful of Confederate raiders during the Civil War was keenly watched in France and Russia, and above all in Britain. In the fifty years which followed, the most sensitive area in the balance of naval power was the potential damage to worldwide commerce which could be caused by raiders. The steel-built protected cruiser, as a warship type, was evolved to counter this threat. Many countries engaged in the development of cruisers, some to give force to the threat, and some for commerce protection.