The Definitive Illustrated History Of The Torpedo Boat Volume V

Author : Joe Hinds
Publisher : Nimble Books
ISBN 13 : 9781608881093
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat written by Joe Hinds and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the eleventh and final volume in this series, contains the following indexes, plus two bonus appendixes by noted naval scholar Richard Worth (FLEETS OF WORLD WAR II, Nimble 2011). Appendix U. Soviet Motor Torpedo Boats (Richard Worth) Appendix V. Successes Of Soviet Torpedo Cutters (Mine Warfare Not Included) Index of British MGBs Index of British MTBs Index of Commercial Vessels sunk by MTB, TKA, PT, MAS and S Boote Index of Convoys Index of German S-Boote Index of Italian MAS Boats Index of Items, Engines, Radars, Battles, and other Odds and Ends Index of Operations (in Chronological Order) Index of People Index of Places Index of Soviet Torpedo Cutters (TKAs) Index of Warships The complete series is 694 pages, 461 color and B&W figures, and 1106 footnotes. Meticulously researched, with every factual assertion carefully attributed and double-checked, this is an essential resource for every naval library. The complete set can be purchased as a single shrink-wrapped volume, ISBN 978-1-934840-58-0.

Author : Joe Hinds
Publisher : Nimble Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934840603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat - Volume II , 1280 - 1899 written by Joe Hinds and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the second volume in this ten-volume set, provides a complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat throughout the world, with seventy-five magnificent illustrations in a full-color interior. This is the first book to provide the history and color illustrations of the "Al Rammah" torpedo invented by that Syrian engineer in 1280 AD-a full three hundred years and thousands of miles from the beginnings of European torpedo warfare in the Netherlands in 1585. Over time, new methods of naval architecture led to astounding vessels, large and small, that proved their value in the dozens of small wars that raged across the calendar and around the globe. The American Civil War was a cauldron of innovation in the technology of the "torpedo"-thoroughly documented here-while Russia was the first European nation to embrace the concept of spar-torpedo boat warfare. Quickly following were Italy, with is need small craft in the confines of the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas. The nations of the world raced to build bigger, faster, and more powerful Torpedo Boats. It would be the Japanese who proved the investment in these new craft were worth every hour and every dime spent in their production. By 1899, small fast boats were here to stay.

Author : Joe Hinds
Publisher : Nimble Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934840610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat -- Volume III , 1900 - 1939 written by Joe Hinds and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the third volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. This volume, which covers the period 1900 to August 1939, includes thirty-six illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The narrative covers the role of the torpedo boat at Tsushima, in World War I, in the interwar period, in the Spanish Civil War, and in many other more obscure conflicts. The global coverage includes stories and illustrations of torpedo boats from the navies of Austria, Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the United States, and more.

Author : Joe Hinds
Publisher : Nimble Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934840627
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat, Volume IV, 1939-1940 (The Ship Killers) written by Joe Hinds and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the fourth volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. The full-color interior of this volume, which covers the period September 1939 to December 1940, includes twenty-five illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The global coverage includes stories and illustrations of torpedo boats from the navies of France, Germany, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more.

Author : Joe Hinds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934840580
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ship Killers written by Joe Hinds and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torpedobådens historie og udvikling fortalt og illustreret ved hjælp af de krige, torpedobåden har deltaget i fra 1585 - slutningen af 1945.

Author : Frank J Andruss Sr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608880737
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the PT Boats written by Frank J Andruss Sr and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Wildenberg
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591146889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Killer written by Thomas Wildenberg and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Thomas Wildenberg and Norman Polmar provide a definitive work on the development and use of the torpedo by the U.S. Navy. Their book begins with an overview of the early undersea weapons developed by Bushnell and Fulton, the spar torpedo of the Civil War and attempts to imitate the Whitehead torpedo, and then focuses on American torpedo development for use from submarines, surface warships and small combatants, and aircraft."--Publisher's description.

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Conway
ISBN 13 : 9781844860067
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat written by John Lambert and published by Conway. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairmile Type D was designed to combat the known advantages of German S-boats (Schnellboote - but always called 'E-boats' by the Allies) over previous British coastal craft designs. Designed for 31 knots at 80 tons' displacement, the Fairmile Ds were the most potent and heavily-armed coastal forces type of any navy. They fulfilled various roles, from the original MTB/MGB role to anti-submarine and mine operations. This book is the most comprehensive body of information available anywhere in a single volume on this important type. This book provides the finest documentation of these uniquely fast small warships ever produced, through a complete set of superbly executed line drawings offering enthusiasts a novel insight into ship design and construction. In addition, it includes a service and design history and a pictorial section emphasising close-up and on-board photographs.

Author : Richard V. Simpson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738505084
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Mosquito Fleet written by Richard V. Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.

Author : Robert Bulkley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530421343
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Close Quarters written by Robert Bulkley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the U.S. Navy, first published in 1962, is the official Navy history of Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats during World War II. The book, in a new, easy-to-read format, opens with a look at PT boat design and construction, naval activities in the Philippines and the evacuation of MacArthur from Corregidor (conducted via PT boat by the book's author, himself a PT skipper), followed by chapters on PT activities in the Pacific (including the Aleutian Island campaign), plus the Mediterranean and English Channel theaters where the PT boats faced Italian and German boats of similar design. The role of PT boats in support of the D-Day landings in Normandy is also discussed. Profusely illustrated and fully indexed, and with a Foreword by John F. Kennedy, At Close Quarters remains the authoritative work on PT boats in the Second World War.