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9781591140450

Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945

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  • ISBN13:

    9781591140450

  • ISBN10:

    1591140455

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-08-01
  • Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
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Summary

"Monitors were virtually ignored by naval historians until Ian Buxton produced the first edition of this book in 1978. Although published privately, this became an established classic and copies of the first edition are now almost unobtainable, so this new edition will be welcomed by many. It has been completely revised, extended and redesigned to a generous large format that allows material deleted from the original edition for lack of space to be restored."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Ian Buxton held the position of Reader in Marine Transport in the School of Marine Science and Technology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1974 to 2002. He continues to lecture in the school as a Visiting Professor.

Table of Contents

The origins of the British monitorp. 8
The 14in-gun monitorsp. 12
The 12in-gun monitorsp. 44
The first 15in-gun monitorsp. 78
The ex-Brazilian river monitorsp. 92
The ex-Norwegian coast defence battleshipsp. 106
The small monitorsp. 114
The second 15in-gun monitorsp. 146
The last 15in-gun monitorsp. 176
Gunnery in the monitorsp. 216
In retrospectp. 241
Bibliography and sourcesp. 246
Acknowledgementsp. 247
Notesp. 248
Indexp. 250
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