Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors
Year: 1978 Language: English Author: Ian Buxton Genre: History of the Navy Publisher: Naval Institute Press Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 224 Description: In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor - indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over. Nevertheless, they were important ships, which played a significant role in many Great War campaigns and drove many of the advances in long-range gunnery later applied to the battle fleet. Indeed, their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built.
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Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors
Language: English
Author: Ian Buxton
Genre: History of the Navy
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 224
Description: In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor - indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over. Nevertheless, they were important ships, which played a significant role in many Great War campaigns and drove many of the advances in long-range gunnery later applied to the battle fleet. Indeed, their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built.
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