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An Illustrated Design History

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An edition of U.S. Battleships (1985)

U.S. Battleships

An Illustrated Design History

First Edition
  • 6 Want to read

Naval historians and enthusiasts alike will find U.S. Battleships to be the most comprehensive reference available on the entire development of U.S. battleships, from the Maine and Texas of 1886, through the Montana class of World War II, up to the recommissioned Iowas. Like the other books in Norman Friedman's design-history series, U.S. Battleships is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records.

Friedman, a leading authority of U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts the evolution of each design. Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III have created detailed scale outboard and plan views of each battleship class and of major modifications to many classes. Numerous photographs complement the text.

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Pages
463

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U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
March 15, 2016, Naval Institute Press
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U.S. battleships: an illustrated design history
1986, Arms and Armour Press
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U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
1985, Naval Institute Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Key to Battleship Drawings
Introduction
1. Beginnings: The Pre-dreadnoughts
2. The All-Big-Gun Ship
3. Theodore Roosevelt's Fighting Machine, 1907-09
4. The Wyoming and New York Classes, 1910-11
5. The Standard Type: Battleships, 1912-17
6. Alternatives to the Standard Type
7. The Last Dreadnought: The South Dakota Class
8. World War One
9. The Washington Treaty
10. Reconstruction
11. Design Studies, 1928-34
12. The North Carolina Class
13. The South Dakota Class
14. The Iowa Class
15. The Montana Class
16. Battleships at War, 1941-45
17. Postwar
Appendices
A. The Monitors
B. Damage at Pearl Harbor
C. List of U.S. Battleships
D. Battleship Data List
Notes on Sources
Index

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [453]-457.
Includes index.

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Annapolis, Md
Other Titles
United States battleships.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
623.8/252/0973
Library of Congress
V815.3 .F74 1985

Contributors

Illustrator
Alan Raven
Illustrator
A.D. Baker III

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 463 p. :
Number of pages
463

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2533071M
Internet Archive
usbattleshipsill00frie
ISBN 10
0870217151
ISBN 13
9780870217159
LCCN
85013769
OCLC/WorldCat
12214729
Library Thing
162877
Goodreads
1521847

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