<p>This volume is a compilation of technical data on the four ships of the Iowa class and a study of the design changes and construction processes of the two ships that were cancelled. It also charts the careers of the "Iowa", "New Jersey", "Wisconsin" and "Missouri" from inception to 2002.</p>

Iowa Class Battleships : Their Design, Weapoms and Equipment

Robert F. Sumrall

History

Brasseys Publications

The US Navy's Sumner-Gearing-class destroyers served as a standard for post-World War II destroyer design and development. Their evolution over the course of nearly 40 years and three wars is fully covered in this illustrated book. Robert Sumrall traces the origins of these destroyers through half a century of changing naval technology, showing the great advances made in ordnance, fire control and steam engineering. As the author makes clear, the class was as much a product of world events as of bureaucratic decisions. The Sumners and their long-hulled sisters, the Gearings, were designed and built in the midst of World War II, and adapted and modernized during the Cold War. Using an extensive source list, the book describes the ships as they were first completed and in later variations into the 1970s, when these ageing warships continued to play a role in the destroyer force. Examples of both classes were in service in other navies around the world as late as 1994. Robert Sumrall is the author of "Iowa-Class Battleships".

Sumner-Gearing-Class Destroyers: Their Design, Weapons, and Equipment

MICHAEL DOYLE

Paul Bender

Military

Conway Maritime Press Ltd.

<p>Shows and describes the structure of the U.S. battleships and discusses the history of this design</p>

Iowa Class Battleships: Their Design, Weapons and Equipment

Americas

Naval Inst Pr

The USS Alabama (BB60) was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to bear that name, over a period of a century.  A giant when compared to her predecessors, she weighted three times as much as all the others put together.  Her naval career was short--less than five years-- but in that time she steamed far enough to have circle the globe seven times at the equator.  This book is filled with photographs and informative detail about this historic ship.

USS Alabama (BB60) (Leeward Publications / Ship's Data, No. 2)

Arnold S. Lott

Leeward Publications

USS Kidd (DD 661) (Warship's Data 1)

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

USS Iowa (BB 61) (Warship's Data 3)

Pearl Harbor Attack

Arizona Memorial Museum Association

USS Bowfin (SS-287) (Warship's Data 6)

Pictorial Histories Publishing

USS Missouri (BB 63) (Warship's Data)

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