Research Catalog

Title

British battlecruisers : 1905-1920 / John Roberts.

Author

Roberts, John, 1945 January 16-

Publication

• Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

128 pages : illustrations, charts, plans; 30 cm +

Summary

"The brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as "super-cruisers" whose job it was to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a fast squadron of capital ships. This book traces in detail the development of Fisher's original idea into the first battlecruiser Invincible of 1908, through to the "Splendid Cats" of the Lion class, and culminating in HMS Hood in 1920, the largest warship in the world for the next twenty years. The origins of the unusual "light battlecruisers" of the Courageous type are also covered."--Book jacket.

Subject

• Battle cruisers > Great Britain
• Cruisers (Warships) > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations, British
• Battle cruisers > Pictorial works

Note

• One folded plan of HMS Queen Mary 1913 in pocket.
• "First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Chatham Publishing"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.

Call Number

JFG 17-163

ISBN

• 9781591149156
• 1591149150

LCCN

2016942807

OCLC

945951255

Author

Roberts, John, 1945 January 16- author.

Title

British battlecruisers : 1905-1920 / John Roberts.

Publisher

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

Revised edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.

Research Call Number

JFG 17-163