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Book Synopsis The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown, 1916–48 by : Peter C. Smith
Download or read book The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown, 1916–48 written by Peter C. Smith and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A successful book, giving a picture of life on a major warship, as well as a different view of some of the main naval actions of the Second World War.” —HistoryOfWar.org This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser HMS Renown, a famous ship with a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War she subsequently served in the post-war fleet and took royalty around the world. Modernized just in time for World War Two, she re-joined the fleet in September, 1939 and for the first two years of the war her speed and heavy gun armament made her one of the most important ships of the fleet. She escorted the famous carrier Ark Royal for most of her illustrious career as flagship of Force “H” in the Mediterranean and took part in many stirring battles and convoy actions. Later she covered Russian convoys in the Arctic before going out to the Indian Ocean where she took part in attacks on Japanese targets in the Indian Ocean. Her final duties included the meeting of King George VI and President Truman in 1945. A host of fresh detail coupled with eyewitness memoirs from former crew members make this an outstanding warship biography. “If you like a thorough, detailed history of a famous, long lived fighting ship, this volume will give you just what you’re looking for. It also provides an insightful look at some of the Royal Navy’s more interesting naval leaders, including Admirals Cunningham and Somerville.” —IPMS/USA
Book Synopsis The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948 by : Peter Charles Smith
Download or read book The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948 written by Peter Charles Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser H.M.S. Renown, a famous ship with a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War she subsequently served in the post-war fleet and took royalty around the world. Modernized just in time for World War Two, she re-joined the fleet in September, 1939 and for the first two years of the war her speed and heavy gun armament made her one of the most important ships of the fleet. She escorted the famous carrier Ark Royal for most of her illustrious career as flagship of Force 'H' in the Mediterranean and took part in many stirring battles and convoy actions. Later she covered Russian convoys in the Arctic before going out to the Indian Ocean where she took part in attacks on Japanese targets in the Indian Ocean. Her final duties included the meeting of King George VI and President Truman in 1945. A host of fresh detail coupled with eyewitness memoirs from former crew members make this an outstanding warship biography.
Book Synopsis Hit First, Hit Hard by : Peter Charles Smith
Download or read book Hit First, Hit Hard written by Peter Charles Smith and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sailors on the Rocks by : Peter C. Smith
Download or read book Sailors on the Rocks written by Peter C. Smith and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did Rule the Waves, in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral wa
Book Synopsis British Battlecruiser vs German Battlecruiser by : Mark Stille
Download or read book British Battlecruiser vs German Battlecruiser written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the differences in the designs of the British and German ships were already apparent. The two sides responded very differently to this first clash; while the Germans improved their ammunition-handling procedures to lessen the risk of disabling explosions, the British drew the opposite lesson and stockpiled ammunition in an effort to improve their rate of fire, rendering their battlecruisers more vulnerable. These differences were highlighted more starkly during the battle of Jutland in May 1916. Of the nine British battlecruisers committed, three were destroyed, all by their German counterparts. Five German battlecruisers were present, and of these, only one was sunk and the remainder damaged. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork, this is the gripping story of the clash between the rival battlecruisers of the Royal Navy and the Kaiserliche Marine at the height of World War I.
Download or read book Battle-cruisers written by Ronald Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Glory written by Bruce Taylor and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood, the glory of the Royal Navy, while television and cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book, however, has ever offered the combination of in-depth research and thrilling narrative to be found in The End of Glory. For twenty years Hood symbolised the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire before, in 1941, being destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck, a catastrophe that shattered the morale the British public. For those who manned her, however, she was both a home and a fighting platform, and this new book, through official documents as well as the personal accounts and reminiscences of more than 150 crewmen, offers a vivid image of the face of naval life and the face of naval battle. A brilliant behind-the scenes exposé of a warship in peace and war, it not only paints an intimate picture of everyday life but deals with any number of controversial issues such as the Invergordon mutiny, escapades ashore and afloat, the Christmas mutiny of 1940 and the terrible conditions onboard in war. This coverage, based on so many original sources, makes for a truly compelling story which neither historian, enthusiast nor general reader will find easy to put down.
Book Synopsis The Commission of H.M.S. Renown, 1900-1904, Mediterranean Service ... by : Renown- Ship
Download or read book The Commission of H.M.S. Renown, 1900-1904, Mediterranean Service ... written by Renown- Ship and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Battlecruisers of the Second World War by : Steve Backer
Download or read book British Battlecruisers of the Second World War written by Steve Backer and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour 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 ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey 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. The latest in this series covers the three ships of this First World War type, Hood, Repulse and Renown, which survived to fight in the Second. Still the fastest capital ships in the world in 1939, their protection was not up to contemporary standards and two were famously lost in action. Hood in an old-fashioned gunnery duel, but Repulse succumbed to the more modern threat of aerial attack. The one modernised ship, Renown, survived an adventurous wartime career.
Book Synopsis The Liberty Ships of World War II by : Greg H. Williams
Download or read book The Liberty Ships of World War II written by Greg H. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship’s namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that built the ships and the steamship companies that operated them during the war. This book also details the formation of two shipyards in South Portland, Maine, the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Co. and the South Portland Shipbuilding Corp. South Portland’s shady operations were investigated by the U.S. Congress and resulted in the merger of both companies into the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in April 1943. Also featured is the Jeremiah O’Brien. Built by New England Ship in 1943 and one of only two operational Liberty ships left in the world, its service history and crew information are given along with its postwar restoration and return to Normandy in 1994.
Download or read book HMS Hood written by R. G. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Commission Of H.m.s. Renown, 1900-1904, Mediterranean Service by : Renown (Ship)
Download or read book The Commission Of H.m.s. Renown, 1900-1904, Mediterranean Service written by Renown (Ship) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission of HMS Renown is a memoir of the service of this famous British battleship during the early 20th century. Written by Charles Mitchell, a former crewmember of the Renown, the book provides a firsthand account of life aboard this historic ship. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Grand Fleet 1914-1916 by : John Rushworth Jellicoe
Download or read book The Grand Fleet 1914-1916 written by John Rushworth Jellicoe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War. The actual strength of the fleet varied through the war as new ships were built and others were sunk, but the numbers steadily increased as the war progressed and the margin of superiority over the German fleet progressed with it. After America entered the war, US Battleship Division Nine was attached to the Grand Fleet as the Sixth Battle Squadron, adding four, and later five, dreadnought battleships. Author and Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War.
Book Synopsis The Battlecruiser HMS HOOD by : Bruce Taylor
Download or read book The Battlecruiser HMS HOOD written by Bruce Taylor and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battlecruiser HMS Hood is one of the great warships of history. Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and colour illustrations, is the story of her life, her work and her people from keel-laying on the Clyde in 1916 to destruction at the hands of the Bismarck in 1941. Among the eyecatching strengths of the book is a unique gallery of photos, including stills from a recently discovered piece of colour footage of the ship, plus a spectacular set of computer-generated images of both the exterior and interior by the world's leading exponent of the art - a man who worked with the film director James Cameron (of Titanic fame). A wealth of new information on Hood's structure and operation make it essential reading for the enthusiast, modeller and historian alike. Hugely successful from its first publication, this is the third printing of the ultimate book on the ultimate ship of the pre-war era.
Download or read book Naval War College Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Navy in World War Two by : Derek G. Law
Download or read book The Royal Navy in World War Two written by Derek G. Law and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fighting at Jutland by : Harold William Fawcett
Download or read book The Fighting at Jutland written by Harold William Fawcett and published by London Macmillan 1921.. This book was released on 1921 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
