| Description |
321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The sailing Navy -- French challenge -- Riposte -- Battle proof -- The iron thickens -- Turrets -- Torpedoes -- Naval supremacy in the 1870s -- Tactics and design: the 1870s -- Ships of the 1870s -- Actions, accidents and other alarms -- The development of the battleship -- Usage and abusage: 1880s and 1890s -- The age of battleships -- Gunnery renaissance, in practice and anger -- Fire control and the Dreadnought -- War -- Challenge from the New World -- The end of the battleship. |
| Subject |
Battleships -- History.
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