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Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
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ISBN: 0429230214 1135765545 1280241977 9786610241972 0203316207 9780203316207 0714657026 9780714657028 9781135765545 9781135765491 1135765499 9781135765538 1135765537 9780415407885 0415407885 9780429230219 9781280241970 661024197X Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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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


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Ships & guns : the sea ordnance in Venice and Europe between the 15th and the 17th centuries
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ISBN: 1842175424 9781842175422 9781842179697 1842179691 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books,

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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

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