Year: 1980 Language: English Author: G. A Ballard Genre: Historical Publisher: Edita Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 277 Description: In 1929 retired Admiral G.A. Ballard started a set of articles for the journal of the Society for Nautical Research which have here been collected in book form with the subtitle Some notes on the mid-Victorian transformation in battleship design. The way Ballard approached this task was to write profiles of each of the class of battleships in the fleet as of 1870. As the fleet was for reasons related to the rapid development of technology quite heterogeneous there are 15 chapters on the battleships plus a few more for some other types of armored ships. What distinguishes this one? It is very much the fact the Adm Ballard actually served on these ships. So in addition to the contents dealing with the familiar issues of armament, armor and propulsion engineering, consideration is given to what we now call habitability including sanitary, sleeping, and eating facilities on each ship. One unique item that Ballard devotes substantial coverage to on each ship is the provision for ship's boats, which in the day of Empire policing had a significant role in the life of the ships and their crews.
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The Black Battlefleet
Language: English
Author: G. A Ballard
Genre: Historical
Publisher: Edita
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 277
Description: In 1929 retired Admiral G.A. Ballard started a set of articles for the journal of the Society for Nautical Research which have here been collected in book form with the subtitle Some notes on the mid-Victorian transformation in battleship design. The way Ballard approached this task was to write profiles of each of the class of battleships in the fleet as of 1870. As the fleet was for reasons related to the rapid development of technology quite heterogeneous there are 15 chapters on the battleships plus a few more for some other types of armored ships.
What distinguishes this one? It is very much the fact the Adm Ballard actually served on these ships. So in addition to the contents dealing with the familiar issues of armament, armor and propulsion engineering, consideration is given to what we now call habitability including sanitary, sleeping, and eating facilities on each ship. One unique item that Ballard devotes substantial coverage to on each ship is the provision for ship's boats, which in the day of Empire policing had a significant role in the life of the ships and their crews.
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