Warships from the golden age of steam
Subtitle: an illustrated guide to great warships from 1860 to 1945
By: David Ross
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781782741534
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: History; Warships; Steamboats
Other titles: Illustrated guide to great warships from 1860 to 1945
Description: The great era of the steam warship was from the mid-1860s to the mid-1940s-an 80-year period in which a huge variety of large ships was built, ever-greater in size, fire-power, and technical sophistication. Capital ships were the most expensive and destructive weaponry prior to the atomic bomb, and their development can be traced decade by decade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: USS Monadnock (1864) to HMS Conqueror (1886); title: HMS Collingwood (1887) to SMS Kaiser Friedrich III (1898); title: HMS Canopus (1899) to Satsuma (1909); title: USS South Carolina (1910) to Andrea Doria (1915); title: HMS Canada (1915) to Dunkerque (1937); title: KMS Scharnhorst (1939) to USS Guam (1944).