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

by John Brooks

Book 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. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that, despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415407885
• ISBN13: 9780415407885
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"