Автор: Anthony Newpower
Издательство: Praeger Security International
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 027599032X
Количество страниц: 257
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the magnetic influence exploder, and the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook 90-degree angle. Ironically, despite using a completely independent design, the Germans experienced the same three defects. The Germans, however, fixed their defects in six months, while it took the Americans 22 months. Much of the delay on the American side resulted from the denial of senior leaders in the operational forces and in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) that the torpedo itself was defective. Instead, they blamed crews for poor marksmanship or lack of training. In the end, however, the submarine force itself overcame the bureaucratic inertia and correctly identified and fixed the three problems on their own, proving once again the industry of the average American soldier or sailor. Contrary to the interpretations of most submarine historians, this book concludes that BuOrd did not sit idly by while torpedoes failed on patrol after patrol. BuOrd acknowledged problems from early in the war, but their processes and their tunnel vision prevented them from realizing that the weapon sent to the fleet was grossly defective. One of World War II's forgotten heroes, Admiral Lockwood drove the process for finding and fixing the three major defects. This is first book that deals exclusively with the torpedo problem, building its case out of original research from the archives of the Bureau of Ordnance, the Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral Lockwood's personal correspondence, and records from the British Admiralty at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. These sources are complemented by correspondence and interviews with men who actually participated in the events.
Автор: S. Brzezinski
Издательство: BS Firma Wydawniczo Handlowa
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 838791858X
Количество страниц: 37
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Profile of this Royal Navy destroyer/minelayer as she was in 1942-3. 2 colour profiles. Separate 1:250 scale plans. 2 pp 1:400 scale plans. 15pp detail drawings. 14 b/w photos. Dual Polish/English text.
Автор: S. Brzezinski, P. Wisiewski
Издательство: BS Firma Wydawniczo Handlowa
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 8387918725
Количество страниц: 42
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Detailed look for modellers at this Japanese light cruiser as she was in 1942. 24 black/white photos and 14 pages of detail drawings. Polish/English text. Separate scale plan and colour profile.
Автор: S. Brzezinski
Издательство: BS Firma Wydawniczo Handlowa
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 8387918490
Количество страниц: 44
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Dual Polish / English text; b/w photos; line drawing; 1 sheet of 1/400 drawings; 1 sheet 1/400 colour profiles
Автор: Dan van der Vat
Издательство: Birlinn
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 1843410389
Количество страниц: 240
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
On June 21, 1919 occurred the greatest single loss of shipping since Man first sat astride a log and floated away from land. The Persian Fleet met its end at Salamis and the U.S. Pacific Fleet was smashed at Pearl Harbor, but both of these disasters resulted from enemy action. The Spanish Armada was scattered and destroyed, but the main reason for its doom was a big storm. The German High Seas Fleet survived a cataclysmic war almost unscathed, but the bulk of its strength and tonnage was destroyed by order of the German admiral in command at the time. The scale of loss, over 400,000 tons of the finest warships then in existence, 74 vessels of which 52 actually went to the bottom under the eyes of the enemy, is unique in itself. That it was an act of self-destruction based on a misapprehension compounds the uniqueness of the event.
Автор: Museum of Science and Industry
Издательство: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Год издания: 1985
Количество страниц: 34
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, maps, drawings, diagrams. A brief history of the WWII German submarine U-505, its capture by U.S. Navy Task Group 22.3, its transfer to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and a description of the ship itself.
Автор: L.C. Cornford
Издательство: Macmillan and Co.
Год издания: 1918
Количество страниц: 208
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Macmillan and Co., Ltd. London 1918, ads B&W illustrations HC Contents include: Officers and Men; The Fighting Uses of the Ships; A Maritime Nation; The Practice of Sea Mastery; The Civil Work of the Navy; Types of Naval Officers; and, the Navy in the Great War.
Автор: А.Е. Тарас
Издательство: Харвест
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 978-985-16-5631-4
Количество страниц: 288
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
В книге рассмотрены все типы ракетных катеров и малых ракетных кораблей (корветов), построенных с момента их появления в составе флотов. В ней также описаны противокорабельные и зенитные ракеты, которыми они вооружены. Приведены эпизоды применения ракетных катеров и противокорабельных ракет. Книга хорошо иллюстрирована, в ней около 400 фотографий, проекций и схем. Предназначена читателям, интересующимся современным военным флотом, историей военного судостроения, а также судомоделистам.
Автор: W.L. Clowes
Издательство: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
Год издания: 1899
Количество страниц: 624
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
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