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    The Battleship Builders Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

    By Ian Buxton and Ian Johnston

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    The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the worlds's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked in the same arms race with Germany, Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels In this she succeeded spectacularly; in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double that of what Germany achieved It was only made possible by the company’s vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament fleets and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the Grand Feet is too often ignored. This heroic achievement, and how it was done, is the subject of this book. It charts the rise of the large industrial conglomerates that were key to this success, looks at the reaction to fast-moving technical changes, and analyses the politics of funding this vast national effort, both before and beyond the Great War. It also attempts to assess the true cost- and value- of the Grand Fleet in terms of the resources consumed. And finally, by way of contrast, it describes the effects of the post-war recession, industrial contraction, and the very different responses to rearmament in the run up to the Second World War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateMay 8, 2013
    ISBN9781473822269
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    The Battleship Builders Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
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    Ian Buxton

    Ian Buxton has been working in and around the drinks industry for 30 years but has been drinking professionally for a good deal longer. He writes in a variety of trade and consumer titles in the UK and abroad.

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