From Monitor to Missile Boat: Coast Defence Ships and Costal Defence Since 1860
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557502706 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Graphically superb, well written, unique photos and lithos A Customer If you are interested in naval history or in naval architecture, perhaps from the point of view of a ship model builder (my own interest) this book is really excellent. It presents a variety of truly unusual small ships, and explains the rationale behind their construction. It is one of th. Warspite said Very good book on the topic. I greatly enjoyed this review of some of the ships that don't reap the glamour like the blue water ships. Excellent discussion of coastal defense ships in general. Excellent photos as well. Only the thin discussion on the Royal Navy monitors (I realize Ian Buxton's work is the "bible", but
Some countries are even returning to versions of fixed defences, albeit in a new high-tech form, and the book concludes with a look at possible future developments.. Hence, the book analyzes the changing ideas of coastal defence, as well as its technology. Because of the constraints of size and draught, these ships became very sophisticated concepts, and this text explores their design philosophy. The World War II battles around Scandinavia and in the Far East seemed to mark the extinction of the traditional type, but the concept has been revived since 1945 in the form of the missile boat, a direct decendant of the torpedo craft of the previous century. This volume is a study of a key of warship history, the specialist coastal defence ship. From its origin in the monitors of the American Civil War, the type grew into miniature battleships, intended to give countries with no overseas ambitions a credible naval defence. The ships were only one aspect of an integra