Opis: Battleships and Large Crusiers - Maciej Chodnicki

Table of Contents



1. Preface /5



2. Artillery and accuracy in second half of XIX century /7



Firing of sea /7



Range finding /8



Firing to moving target /9



Stability and accuracy /10



Guns and shells versus armour scheme /11



Material for armour /28



Fire control systems, shooting procedures, increasing the combat distance /32



3. Heavy ships from the end of the XIX and early XX centuries /36



First battleships - in some countries named ironclads /36



Central side battery battleship (ironclads) /37



Casemate battleships (Ironclads) /38



Turret battleships (ironclads) /39



Barbette battleships (ironclads) /43



Predreadnoughts and semidreadnoughts /45



Dreadnoughts /48



Armoured cruisers /51



Large armoured cruisers. Dreadnought cruisers. Battlecruisers /53



Super-dreadnoughts /62



4. American heavy ships at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries /64



5. Maine (ACR-1) and Texas /66



Maine / Texas and rest of the world /71



France: armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lome /73



Great Britain: Battleships Trafalgar class first class cruisers Blake class /78



Battleships Trafalgar class /78



First class cruisers Blake class /81



Spain: class Infanta Maria Teresa /86



6. First American armoured cruiser - USS New York (ACR-2) /96



New York and rest of the world /102



Russia: Rurik /103



Great Britain: First class cruisers of the Edgar class /106



Italy: armoured cruisers Marco Polo class /111



7. Cruisers Columbia class (C-12) /115



Columbia and rest of the world /118



France: armoured cruisers of the Amiral Charner class /119



Italy: armoured cruiser Vettor Pisani class /122



Austria-Hungary: armoured cruiser Kaiserin und Konigin Maria Teresa /124



8. First serial "coastline battleshios" USA: Indiana Class (B/BB-1) /126



Indiana and rest of the world /131



France: battleship Jaureguiberry /138



Germany: battleships of the Brandenburg class /145



Great Britain: battleships of the Royal Sovereign class, and HMS Hood /152



Russia: Battleshio Navarin /159



9. First "seagoing coastline battership" USS Iowa (B/BB-4) /166



Iowa and rest of the world /170



Russia: battleships of the Petropavlovsk /171



France: battleship Bouvet /175



Great Britain: battleshios of the Majestic class /179



10. Armoured cruiser Brooklyn (ACR-3) /191



Brookyn and rest of the world /193



Russia: Armoured cruiser Russia /195



France: Armoured cruiser Pothuau and protected cruiser D`Entrecasteaux /198



Spain: Armoured cruiser Calos V /202



Italy/Argentina: armoured cruisers Giuseppe Garibaldi /203



Great Britain: Cruisers of the Powerful and Diadem class /205



11. Battleships of the Kearsage class (B/BB-5) /222



Kearsage and rest of the world /229



Great Britain: battleships of theMajestic / Illustrious class /231



France: battleships of the Charlemagne class /235



Russia: battleships of the Peresvet class /239



Germany: Battleships of the Kaiser Friedrich III, armoured cruiser Furst Bismarck /242



12. Battleships of tthe Illinois class (B/BB-7) /249



Illinois and rest of the world /253



Great Britiain: Battleship of the Canopus class /254



Japan: battleship of the Shikishima class/260



France: battleship Henri IV /262



13. Appendices /268



Armament /268



Heavy artillery /270



Self defence artillery /290



Medium artillery /299



14. Indexes /305

Szczegóły: Battleships and Large Crusiers - Maciej Chodnicki

Tytuł: Battleships and Large Crusiers
Podtytuł: Design and developement volume 1 - first predreadnoughts
Autor: Maciej Chodnicki
Wydawnictwo: Wydawnictwo ACAD
ISBN: 9788366163478
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2021
Ilość stron: 312
Format: 21.0x30.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Battleships and Large Crusiers - Maciej Chodnicki