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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9781399063227
Publication Year
2023
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Windfall Battleships : Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan and Latin-American Arms Races
Author
Aidan Dodson
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Genre
Transportation, History
Item Length
9.2 in
Topic
Military / Naval, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Publisher
Naval Institute Press
ISBN-10
1399063227
ISBN-13
9781399063227
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15063416664

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Book Title
Windfall Battleships : Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan and Latin-American Arms Races
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Transportation, History
Author
Aidan Dodson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Trade
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Synopsis
This is the compelling story of international rivalries and naval arms races that induced a dreadnought mania which nearly bankrupted three South American nations, and has often been blamed for Turkey's stand against Great Britain during the first World War. The resulting ships included some fascinating examples of the breed, one of which would become a pioneering aircraft carrier under the flag of the royal Navy., This new book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outbreak of World War I. Under construction by the shipbuilding giants of Armstrong and Vickers in August 1914, Sultan Osman I, Readiye, Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane became HM Ships Agincourt, Erin, Canada and Eagle . The first three served with the Grand Fleet, fighting at Jutland, while the last was transformed into a pioneering aircraft carrier, which would serve with distinction until sunk while escorting a convoy to Malta in 1942. While two of the other ships had short lives - cut short by the Washington Naval Treaty - the final ship, Almirante Latorre , would be returned to Chile after the war, for a continuing active career that would last into the 1950s. When finally towed away for scrap in 1959, she was the penultimate survivor of Jutland. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book begins with an overview of the warships under construction around Europe for foreign customers in August 1914, and how the four ships featured were acquired by the Royal Navy. It then looks at them as manifestations of the international rivalries which directed much of the national budgets of impecunious South American and Balkan states towards armaments. The focus then switches to the British service of the ships completed as battleships, and then to the story of the carrier. Although never finished as a battleship, she would play a crucial role in the development of British carrier aviation. Finally, the author traces the stories of the battleships of the Latin-American naval race from the 1920s down to the 1950s. The stories and back-stories of Agincourt, Erin, Canada and Eagle embrace almost the whole of the twentieth-century battleship era, and they take us down the byways of international naval power, ranging from the Pacific to the Black Sea, and from the line of battle to mutiny and revolution. A fascinating and original story.
Copyright Date
2023
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