The Evolution of Naval Armament - Couverture souple

Robertson, Frederick Leslie

9780945726647: The Evolution of Naval Armament

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0945726643 ISBN 13 : 9780945726647

Editeur : Scholars Book Shelf, 2006

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Admiralty library, close to the Royal United Service I nstitution, and in touch with the Reading Room of the British Museum and other public sources of information. The lack of a book describing in popular language the materialistic side of naval history is, I think, generally admitted. Historians as a rule have devoted small space to consideration of material; in particular, the story of the revolutionary changes in naval material which took place during the nineteenth century has never been placed before the public in convenient form. In the attempt to supply such a description I have taken the liberty, as an engineer, of treating of naval material as a whole ;tracing, as well as my technical knowledge permits, the progress of all the three principal elements ship, gun, engine and their interdependence. The result, faulty and incomplete as it is, may nevertheless be of considerable service, it is hoped, in clarifjdng the work of the historians and bridging the gap which divides the classic histories from our modern text-books. I have considered our modern navy to begin with the Admiral class of battleship, about the year 1880. My respectful thanks are due to the heads of three Admiralty departments :C aptain R. H. Crooke, C.B., lately Director of Naval Ordnance ;E ngineer Vice-A dmiral Sir George Goodwin, K.C.B., LL.D., Engineer-in-C hief of the Fleet; and Sir Eustace T. DE yncourt, K.C.B., Director of Naval Construction; for their unofficial approval. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the officials of the Admiralty and the R.U.S.I. libraries.
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