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Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland : the question of fire control / John Brooks ; with a foreword by Andrew Lambert.
Author
Brooks, John, 1942-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Description
xiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
VF520 .B76 2005
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Subject(s)
Fire control (Naval gunnery)
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History
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20th century
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Jutland, Battle of, 1916
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Battleships
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Great Britain
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History
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20th century
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Battleships
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Germany
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History
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20th century
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Great Britain Royal Navy
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Ordnance and ordnance stores
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History
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20th century
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Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford 1866-1937
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Series
Cass series--naval policy and history ; 32.
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Cass series--naval policy and history ; 32
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Summary note
"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 provides new and revisionist accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of gunnery at Jutland. In fire control, as with other technologies, the Royal Navy had been open, though not uncritically, to innovations. The Dreyer Tables were better suited to action conditions (particularly those at Jutland). Beatty's losses were the result mainly of deficient tactics and training, his battlecruisers would have been even more disadvantaged had they been equipped by Argo."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
Contents
1. Old controversies, new histories
2. Long-range naval gunnery
3. Progress in gunnery
4. A.C. and Argo
5. Dreyer tables
6. Influences and choices
7. Into battle
8. Jutland and after
9. exceptional case
App. fire control equations.
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ISBN
0714657026 ((hardback))
9780714657028 ((hardback))
9780415407885 ((pbk.))
0415407885 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2004017338
OCLC
56066419
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