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This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that, despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book pro
Fire control (Naval gunnery) --- Jutland, Battle of, 1916. --- Battleships --- Dreadnoughts --- Pocket battleships --- Warships --- Skagerrak, Battle of, 1916 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Naval gunnery --- Ordnance, Naval --- Remote control --- History --- Campaigns --- Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford, --- Pollen, Arthur Hungerford, --- Great Britain. --- England and Wales. --- צי הבריטי --- Ordnance and ordnance stores
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Ships and Guns brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries, as exemplified by the maritime archaeological resource. Subjects include Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first war of Morea, Genoese ordnance aboard galleys in the 16th century, the strategic logistics of guns at sea during the Spanish armada of 1588 and ships and guns of the T
Ordnance, Naval --- Underwater archaeology --- Archaeology and history --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists --- Naval ordnance --- Naval art and science --- Ordnance --- Venice (Italy) --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venetsii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- History, Naval --- Antiquities --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy)
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