The British Navy in Battle (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Pollen, Arthur H.

 
9781330797655: The British Navy in Battle (Classic Reprint)

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Big guns more accurate at long range, because more regular 94 Big guns need less accurate range-finding, because the danger space is greater 95 Range-finding by bracket .97 The crux of sea fighting, changes of course and speed produce an irregularly changing range ... 98 In this sketch the black silhouette shows the position at the moment the torpedo is fired; the white silhouette the position the ship has reached when the torpedo meets it 107 Plan of Sydney and Emden in action. .. .. .158 Plan of the action between the British battle-cruisers and the German armoured cruisers .. .. 199 Plan of action between Kent and Nurnbtrg, and of that between Cornwall and Glasgow and Leipzig 207 The action off Heligoland up to the intervention of Commodore Good enoughs Light Cruiser Squadron .- 235 The action off Heligoland. The course of the battlecruisers ... 239 The Dogger Bank A ffair.
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