U.S. Destroyers
Subtitle: An Illustrated Design History
By: by Norman Friedman ; profile drawings by A.D. Baker III.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: April 16, 1982
Place of publication: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9780870217333
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Destroyers (Warships) -- United States -- History
Other titles: United States Destroyers; U. S. Destroyers; US destroyers.
First sentence: Decade by decade in the last couple of centuries this control of the sea business has become ever more complicated and of more consequence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Key to Line Drawings; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Prologue: Torpedo Boats into Destroyers, 1886-1898; label: 2
title: A Decade of Developments, 1906-1916; label: 3
title: The Mass-Production Destroyer, 1917-1922; label: 4
title: Destroyer ASW, World War I and After; label: 5
title: Leaders and the Interwar Period: 1917-1940; label: 6
title: To the Big Destroyers, 1941-1945; label: 7
title: The Destroyer Escorts, 1941-1945; label: 8
title: Destroyer Warfare, 1941-1945; label: 9
title: Destroyer ASW: World War II and After; label: 10
title: Destroyer AAW: World War II and After; label: 11
title: The Ultimate Destroyer: 1944-1951; label: 12
title: Postwar ASW Escorts; label: 13
title: The Fast Task Force Escorts; label: 14
title: Nuclear Destroyers and Frigates; label: 15
title: The New Escorts: SCB 199, Seahawk, DX, FFG; label: 16
title: The Future; title: Notes to Tables; title: Notes on Sources; title: Index