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Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland : the question of fire control / John Brooks ; with a foreword by Andrew Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, John, 1942-
- Series:
- Cass series--naval policy and history ; 32.
- Cass series--naval policy and history ; 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford, 1866-1937.
- Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy--Ordnance and ordnance stores--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Fire control (Naval gunnery)--History--20th century.
- Fire control (Naval gunnery).
- Jutland, Battle of, 1916.
- Battleships--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Battleships.
- Battleships--Germany--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 OLD CONTROVERSIES, NEW HISTORIES; 2 LONG-RANGE NAVAL GUNNERY; 3 PROGRESS IN GUNNERY; 4 A.C. AND ARGO; 5 THE DREYER TABLES; 6 INFLUENCES AND CHOICES; 7 INTO BATTLE; 8 JUTLAND AND AFTER; 9 AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-76553-7
- 0-429-23021-4
- 1-135-76554-5
- 1-280-24197-7
- 9786610241972
- 0-203-31620-7
- 9780429230219
- OCLC:
- 475907296
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