V & W Destroyers: A Developmental History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526774828)

The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing so she rendered all other capital ships then afloat completely obsolete. Ten years later the V&W Class did to destroyers what the dreadnoughts had done to battleships: they set a completely new and higher standard of technology and were a cut above anything that had come before. They were, however, less revolutionary than evolutionary and in this new book John Henshaw takes the reader through all the developmental stages with a detailed history of the step-by-step lessons that were learned, not all of which were fortuitous. The narrative is superbly illustrated with forty-five detailed profile and deck plans.

Author: John Henshaw
ISBN-10: 1526774828
ISBN-13: 9781526774828
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2020
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs