W drugiej części opracowania floty Tudorów marynistyczny ekspert Angus Konstam opisuje niesamowitą transformację floty pod panowaniem królowej Elżbiety I. W okresie tym narodził się zupełnie nowy typ okrętu wojennego, zaprojektowany specjalnie po to, by zdominować oceany i rozszerzyć imperium. Szczegółowo opisując działania wojenne w czasach wilków morskich Francisa Drake?a i Waltera Raleigh oraz walkę z Niezwyciężoną Armadą autor wyjaśnia innowacje technologiczne, które umożliwiły tej niewielkiej, lecz efektywnej marynarce na pokonanie większej floty hiszpańskiej. Wypełniona wynikami najnowszych badań, dogłębnymi analizami, fotografiami, kolorowymi rekonstrukcjami i szczegółowymi przekrojami, ta książka to obowiązkowa pozycja dla każdego miłośnika marynistyki i dla każdego, kto pragnie zrozumieć jak Brytania zdobyła panowanie nad morzami i utrzymała swą hegemonię na oceanach w epoce żagla.
Ekspert od historii morskiej Angus Konstam bada rozwój raczkującej floty Tudorów od jej początków w charakterze tymczasowo mobilizowanej floty statków handlowych w XV wieku do stałej marynarki pod panowaniem Henryka VIII. Zarysowane zostało innowacyjne użycie przez Henryka okrętów jako platform artyleryjskich w latach przed bitwą pod Portsmouth w 1545 roku, w której jego flota pokonała znacznie większą francuską armadę. Nieszczęsna ?Mary Rose? była zaledwie jednym z wielu potężnych okrętów, które wytyczyły drogę do późniejszej angielskiej morskiej dominacji. Ta książka ożywia te ogromne drewniane okręty wraz z ewolucją ich konstrukcji za pomocą kolorowych rysunków i historycznych źródeł ikonograficznych.
As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were.
1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were ageing, and many of them were markedly inferior to the latest American and Japanese battleships. An arms race loomed between the war's victors.
In this book naval expert Angus Konstam studies and compares the battleships being designed between 1918 and 1922, which drew on the lessons of World War I. Britain was designing four G3-class 15in-gun battlecruisers, plus four N3 'hyper-dreadnoughts' mounting colossal 18in guns. The US Navy was planning six new South Dakota battleships, carrying an incredible 12 16in guns, plus six Lexington-class battlecruisers. Japan was working on a similar project, and in 1920 the first of four Amagi-class battlecruisers were laid down.
However, in 1922 this costly arms race was averted by the Washington Naval Treaty, which halted new battleship construction, and limited the major fleets. These battleships and battlecruisers were mostly cancelled and scrapped, with a few, such as Lexington and Akagi, converted into aircraft carriers. With new colour reconstructions of the G3, H3, South Dakota, Lexington and Amagi classes, this is the first book to study these never-built monster warships.
A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.
The Arctic was a vital conduit for transporting supplies directly from Great Britain to Russia. The British Home Fleet was tasked with protecting these convoys, which passed within range of the German bases in Norway. By 1942, the Germans had reinforced their air and naval forces, stationing a powerful naval surface group there centred around the battleship Tirpitz.
Convoy PQ-17 was set to be the last convoy to sail until the autumn of 1942, and was a particularly large one, involving 35 merchant ships, over half of which were American. When it departed Reykjavik on 27 June, bound for Archangel, the Germans were ready and waiting. The convoy was the first large joint Anglo-American naval operation under British command.
Here, expert naval historian Angus Konstam documents the withdrawal of the Allied close escort to intercept the German raiders, and the devastating attacks on the scattered merchant ships by German aircraft and U-boats. Maps and diagrams plot the passage and fate of the convoy elements, and stunning artworks bring to life key moments of their efforts to escape. In the end, 24 Allied ships were sunk, and only ten merchant ships and four auxiliaries reached the port of Archangel. PQ-17 would prove to be the worst convoy loss of World War II, and the most controversial.
From the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, from the Balkans to Mesopotamia, gunboats played an influential part in the story of World War I. This detailed technical guide to the gunboats of all the major navies of the war means that, for the first time, the story can be told.
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever killed at Jutland. Gunboat engagements during this war were bloody and hard fought, if small in scale. Austrian gunboats on the Danube fired the first shots of the war, whilst German, British and Belgian gunboats fought one of the strangest, most intriguing naval campaigns in history in far-flung Lake Tanganyika.
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