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Free Download John Roberts – Warship: Volume V
Conway Maritime Press / Naval Institute Press | 1981 | ISBN: 0851772447 / 0870219804 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 361.26 MB
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Free Download Andrew Lambert – Warship: Volume X
Conway Maritime Press / Naval Institute Press | 1986 | ISBN: 0851774490 / 0870219855 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 306.62 MB
The 1986 edition of Warship has a variety of topics. This list of articles includes …

Free Download Bernard Ireland – Warship Construction
Ian Allan | 1987 | ISBN: 0711015945 | English | 120 pages | PDF | 106.88 MB
Detailed account of the factors which influence the combat & sea-going capabilities of contemporary warships.

Free Download David K. Brown – Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Design and Development 1860-1905
Seaforth Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 1848320868 | English | 228 pages | PDF | 214.85 MB
In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the First World War.The author explains how ninetheenth-century designers responded to developments in engine technology, armour protection and armament in their attempts to develop the best possible fighting ships. He details the development of more efficient engines that brought about the demise of the sailing warship, and the competition between armour and armament, with every increase in the power of guns stimulating the development of ever more sophisticated methods of protection. Importantly, he explains that the Victorian Royal Navy, far from being the reactionary body it is so often depicted as, was, in fact, at the forefront of technological change, for example in the employment of torpedoes and the development of countermeasures to them.Full accounts are given of the significant naval events and battles of the period, making the book a fine narrative history as well as a brilliant work of warship reference. D K BROWN was a distinguished naval architect who retired in 1988 as Deputy Chief Naval Architect of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. He published widely on the subject of warship design and built a reputation as a clear and brilliant commentator on the development of the ships of the Royal Navy. He died in 2008.

Free Download David K. Brown – The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
Seaforth Publishing | 2011 | ISBN: 184832085X | English | 212 pages | PDF | 206.95 MB
In this book, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought, renowned warship author D. K. Brown brings his knowledge and experience as a warship designer to the story of the Royal Navy’s development of World War I warships and the influence of that conflict on future warship design. The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history, and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to the ultimate test.

Free Download Robert C. Stern – Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War
Seaforth Publishing | 2015 | ISBN: 1848321538 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 208.51 MB
The outcome of much of the naval war in World War II was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters of naval conflict. Despite this, there were a surprising number of ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most important, technically interesting, or obscure of these gunfire duels. Covering all theatres of the naval war, the battles selected demonstrate the changing face of surface warfare under the influence of rapidly improving fire-control systems, radar, and other sensors. By 1945 big ships could open fire at great ranges with a high probability of hitting with the first salvo. This was the pinnacle of gunnery excellence, but also heralded the end of naval gunnery as a major factor in sea warfare. Facing such deadly accuracy, navies looked to longer-ranged, smarter, weapons like surface-skimming missiles and homing torpedoes.

Free Download Robert C. Stern – Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War
Seaforth Publishing | 2015 | ISBN: 1848321538 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 208.51 MB
The outcome of much of the naval war in World War II was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters of naval conflict. Despite this, there were a surprising number of ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most important, technically interesting, or obscure of these gunfire duels. Covering all theatres of the naval war, the battles selected demonstrate the changing face of surface warfare under the influence of rapidly improving fire-control systems, radar, and other sensors. By 1945 big ships could open fire at great ranges with a high probability of hitting with the first salvo. This was the pinnacle of gunnery excellence, but also heralded the end of naval gunnery as a major factor in sea warfare. Facing such deadly accuracy, navies looked to longer-ranged, smarter, weapons like surface-skimming missiles and homing torpedoes.

Free Download Frigate USS Clark (Warship Book 4)
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9086161944 | 49 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
The ships of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class were designed in the United States in the mid-1970’s as general-purpose escort vessels. They were inexpensive enough to be bought in large quantities and replace older ships. Meant to protect amphibious landing forces, supply and replenishment groups, and merchant convoys from submarines, they also became part of battleship-centric groups and aircraft battle/strike groups.

Free Download Cruiser HNLMS Tromp (Warship Book 1)
English | 2024 | ASIN : B0C6P6S3NR | 49 Pages | PDF | 6.3 MB
Trapped in the Far East by the over-run of the Netherlands and by the occupancy of the Netherlands East Indies, Tromp’s destiny lay in the Indian Ocean and Pacific onslaughts. The ship became one of the highest decorated Dutch warships of World War II. Often referred to as ‘The Ghost Ship’, the crew preferred to call her ‘The Lucky Ship’, since she was no less than five times claimed to be sunk.

Free Download British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWI by Malcolm George Wright
English | October 15, 2016 | ISBN: 9781591146087 | 192 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
During World War II navies developed low visibility, horizontal and vertical surface camouflage for their ships. The camouflage served to reduce the visibility of the ships by blending them in with the sea. It also made the identity of the ship confusing by applying more obtrusive patterns. In this the third volume by maritime artist Malcolm Wright, both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned the cruisers and minelayers of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth are depicted in detail. Where possible both sides of the ship are depicted, and there are multiple images of the ships where armament or equipment changes had a fundamental impact on a ship’s appearance. With 800 full color illustrations arranged by ship type rather than camouflage scheme, this book concentrates the clearest possible information into a single volume to provide a one-stop reference source. Historians, collectors, model makers, and war gamers will find this unique reference source invaluable.