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The Introduction of the Iron-clad Warship / James Phinney Baxter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baxter, James Phinney, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- Armored vessels.
- Warships.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 pages)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II A REVOLUTION IN NAVAL ORDNANCE
- CHAPTER III UNARMORED IRON WARSHIPS
- CHAPTER IV IRONCLAD PROJECTS OF THE FORTIES
- CHAPTER V THE CRIMEAN WAR
- CHAPTER VI THE FIRST SEAGOING IRONCLAD FLEET
- CHAPTER VII GREAT BRITAIN ENTERS THE RACE
- CHAPTER VIII THE PASSING OF THE WOODEN CAPITAL SHIP
- CHAPTER IX THE ORIGINS OF THE TURRET SHIP
- CHAPTER X ORDNANCE AND ARMOR IN 1861
- CHAPTER XI MALLORY'S IRONCLAD POLICY
- CHAPTER XII THE NORTH SEEKS A SOLUTION
- CHAPTER XIII HAMPTON ROADS
- CHAPTER XIV THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAMPTON ROADS
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-28257-4
- OCLC:
- 1013956870
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