Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control

by John Brooks

Overview

This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135765538
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/09/2005
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John Brooks

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, Foreword, Preface, 1. Old controversies, new histories, 2. Long-range naval gunnery, 3. Progress in gunnery, 4. A.C. and Argo, 5. The Dreyer Tables, 6. Influences and choices, 7. Into battle, 8. Jutland and after, 9. An exceptional case, Appendix: the fire control equations, Selected bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

'For anyone seriously interested in that period of naval history, this book is indispensible.'

Ruddock Mackay

'In a clear, dispassionate and compelling manner, Brooks gives us an excellent account of dreadnought gunnery at Jutland and of its previous technical evolution.'

Ruddock Mackay

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