Warships of the Great War Era: A History in Ship Models

by David Hobbs

Overview

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. Treated as historical evidence, they offer far more detail than even the best plans or the finest marine paintings. This book features a selection of over one hundred ship models, all in full color, of the various classes of warship that fought in the First World War, from dreadnoughts to coastal motor boats, including many close-up views. These color photos are captioned in depth, and many are also annotated to note interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591141907
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Series:	A History of Ship Models
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

David Hobbs spent 33 years as a RN pilot, and since retirement has spent a period as Curator of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and become the author of many highly regarded books, including A Century of Naval Aviation and The British Pacific Fleet.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 6

2 Battleships 10

Early experiments with aviation 14

Battleship superstructure 26

The underwater danger 32

3 Battlecruisers 34

Features of a capital ship 40

Capital ship development 1914-1918 42

4 Cruisers 46

Features of a light cruiser 60

Guns and gun mountings 66

5 Destroyers 70

Features of a destroyer 82

Destroyer development 88

6 Submarines 92

7 Other Warship Types 100

Unconventional responses to the U-boat menace 106

Boats and boat stowage 116

8 Merchantmen at War 124

Further Reading 128