Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland : the question of fire control /
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many n...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Col·lecció: | Cass series--naval policy and history ;
32. |
| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=115519 |
| Sumari: | This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that, despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book pro. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203316207 9780203316207 0714657026 9780714657028 9781135765545 1135765545 9781135765491 1135765499 9781135765538 1135765537 9780415407885 0415407885 0429230214 9780429230219 1280241977 9781280241970 9786610241972 661024197X |