Year: 2018 Language: english Author: Ronald Bassett Genre: History Publisher: Lume Books Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 372 Description: A lean and hungry breed of warship, the battle cruisers burned their names deeply into the annals of sea-warfare. Fast and heavy-gunned, the battle-cruiser could overhaul and destroy anything at sea except the battleship. The brain child of Admiral Jacky Fisher, the battle-cruiser was intended to be light, fast, and able to avoid action with ships-of-the-line. However, the battle-cruisers came to be treated as fast battleships …And expected to fight as a battleship. But their design rendered them vulnerable and left them outmatched. This weakness was cruelly exposed at the battle of Jutland in 1916, where three of the battle-cruisers exploded. Known as the ‘Splendid Cats’ for their speed and viciousness, battle cruisers fought at Heligoland Bight, the Falkland’s Islands, Dogger Bank and Jutland. Following the First World War the battle-cruisers biggest enemy was the scrapyard. Once more the world was plunged into war, and four battle-cruisers would be lost during the Second World War. The most famous is perhaps the Hood, following the action against the Bismark. Only the Renown survived both world wars, yet she was condemned to the breaker’s yard in the summer of 1948. From the far side of the world to home waters, the battle-cruisers played a vital part in the British war effort. Combining meticulous research with a novelist’s flair for storytelling, Battle-Cruisers vividly describes the life and times of the sixteen battle-cruisers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. Yet ships do not fight on their own. This is also the story of the men who served, lived, fought and faced adversity in these floating worlds.
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Battle-Cruisers: A History 1908-48
Language: english
Author: Ronald Bassett
Genre: History
Publisher: Lume Books
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 372
Description: A lean and hungry breed of warship, the battle cruisers burned their names deeply into the annals of sea-warfare.
Fast and heavy-gunned, the battle-cruiser could overhaul and destroy anything at sea except the battleship.
The brain child of Admiral Jacky Fisher, the battle-cruiser was intended to be light, fast, and able to avoid action with ships-of-the-line.
However, the battle-cruisers came to be treated as fast battleships
…And expected to fight as a battleship.
But their design rendered them vulnerable and left them outmatched.
This weakness was cruelly exposed at the battle of Jutland in 1916, where three of the battle-cruisers exploded.
Known as the ‘Splendid Cats’ for their speed and viciousness, battle cruisers fought at Heligoland Bight, the Falkland’s Islands, Dogger Bank and Jutland.
Following the First World War the battle-cruisers biggest enemy was the scrapyard.
Once more the world was plunged into war, and four battle-cruisers would be lost during the Second World War.
The most famous is perhaps the Hood, following the action against the Bismark.
Only the Renown survived both world wars, yet she was condemned to the breaker’s yard in the summer of 1948.
From the far side of the world to home waters, the battle-cruisers played a vital part in the British war effort.
Combining meticulous research with a novelist’s flair for storytelling, Battle-Cruisers vividly describes the life and times of the sixteen battle-cruisers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy.
Yet ships do not fight on their own. This is also the story of the men who served, lived, fought and faced adversity in these floating worlds.
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