How have sea battles been fought throughout the centuries, where and by whom, and why? From 480 B.C., when the Greeks fought the Persians at the Battle of Salamis, to the saga of the Falklands in 1982, The Fighting Ship, with its superbly imaginative text and detailed illustrations, answers these questions and many more. In the main part of the book crucial sea engagements are described through the eyes of one of the combatants -- we read, for example, of the paymaster on board the USS Monitor in 1862, on her way to do battle with the CSS Merrimack in Chesapeake Bay and a young sailor's experience of the Spanish Armada . Shorter entries on subjects like navigation, aircraft at sea and surgery at sea, and descriptions of ships and weaponry give an added perspective.

The Fighting Ship (Rebuilding the Past)

Brett, Bernard

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Traces the development of naval vessels from the ancient Greeks to the present, and looks at submarines, guided missiles, battleships, aircraft carriers, and changes in naval tactics

History Of World Sea Power

Science & Math

Technology

Crescent

A Young Person's Guide to Witchcraft

Author, The

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Hamlyn Book of Mysteries

Egmont Childrens Books

History of World Seapower

Hamlyn

The struggle for supremacy at sea is a continuing and fascinating story. This book describes in illuminating detail the development of the heavy battleship with her long-range guns: how her vulnerability was exposed with the advent of the torpedo, and her eventual decline in importance with the introduction of the aircraft carrier. During the Second World War both the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and the Americans in the Pacific proved conclusively that the battleship was no match for attack by bombs and torpedoes delivered from carrier-based naval aircraft and by the end of the war the aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the major capital ship.The second half of the twentieth-century brought a shift of power at sea from above to below the surface and the arrival of the surface-to-surface and air-to-surface guided missiles introduced an entirely new concept into naval warfare: the nuclear-powered submarine - the most deadly of all weapons - firing its destructive Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident missiles.Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs, Modern Sea Power also gives detailed specification of many classes of ship and the weaponry and surveillance systems in operation. The importance of merchant shipping in any combat is also highlights, including the requisitioning of the famous liner, the QEII, during the Falklands Campaign.

Modern sea power

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