Battleship Book

Oh I doubt it’s out of print….or even the book you’re thinking of…..this one was published in England in 2005 and is called ‘The world encyclopedia of Battleships’ by Peter Hore…and it DOES include the HMS Agincourt, a rather impressive looking ship by standards of that time…tho I don’t recall reading anything about it firing all it’s guns at once (have to look again)…she DID carry seven gun turrets all named after days of the week! Lots of good, if brief, material in this book which gives me good reference material on the subject when I need it (but some of the photos need the captions revised….one chapter on WWII starts out with a photo of a line of battleships coming at you and the caption says they are Japanese, which they most definitely are NOT…)

Mark

Well then It’s not the book that I had by Siegfried Breyer “Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970″, But of course It was the one I was refering to of course, It’s about 2” or so thick.

Heck I was looking for that title and look what I found:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashi-ta/aki_f.htm
She had 20″ guns, But was just an 8,500 ton monitor.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashi-ta/furamain.htm

This website doesn’t like the link cause of part of a Japanese name, So I had to stick a hyphen in It, Copy and paste them into the url bar and remove It to use It. 🙁

Oh I doubt it’s out of print….or even the book you’re thinking of…..this one was published in England in 2005 and is called ‘The world encyclopedia of Battleships’ by Peter Hore…and it DOES include the HMS Agincourt, a rather impressive looking ship by standards of that time…tho I don’t recall reading anything about it firing all it’s guns at once (have to look again)…she DID carry seven gun turrets all named after days of the week! Lots of good, if brief, material in this book which gives me good reference material on the subject when I need it (but some of the photos need the captions revised….one chapter on WWII starts out with a photo of a line of battleships coming at you and the caption says they are Japanese, which they most definitely are NOT…)

Mark

Just picked up a $5 Battleship Book at Border’s on the ‘specials’ rack, could’nt pass it up, was amazed at all the interesting attempts to create the ‘perfect’ combat ship…it included the Iowa class, Yamato, and the Vanguard class, as well as speculative efforts like the Moantana class and even the Alaskas, which they classed as ‘pocket battlehips’ like the Graf Spee and Scharnhorst types (technically heavy cruisers I guess)….the book is kinda vague on details about each type, just a rough overview, but whaddya expect for $5….still good reference material…

Mark

Is It a big thick book on Battleships from 1905-1970? If It is, It’s out of print, I had a copy once and It compared the USS Iowa class Battleships against the HMS Vanguard, The Vanguard was noted to be a more stable gun platform than the Iowa class, Of course the Vanguard had 8-15″ guns from 2 large light crusiers from the Glorius and the Courageous that 2-15″ twin turrets each(1 forward and 1 aft), It was scrapped in 1960, It’s too bad though the Brits could have mothballed her with our ghost fleet and then modernized Her later in time for the Falklands, Oh well. It also mentions a very notable ship the brits made just prior to WWI breaking out, I can’t recall who they were building It for down in South America, It could have been Argentina, Brazil or Chile, Anyway It was later named the HMS Agincourt during WWI while in the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy, It was notable since It holds the record for any Battleship before or since for the most main guns, It had 14-12″ guns all on the centerline and It was said in the book that when all Her main guns were fired at once in a salvo, That It looked like the ship had blown up! Talk about a sight and one heck of a swimming pool maker for shore bombardment purposes, Alas It never made It to WWII as It had very little room for more advanced features like AA and Radar, Besides ships were getting faster and It was a 21knot ship, The orignal buyer after WWI didn’t want It, So It was later consigned to the scrapyard, possibly as part of the 1921 Naval Treaty.