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The World's Worst Warships: The Failures and Repercussions of Naval Design and Construction, 1860-2000 by Anthony Preston PDF



The World’s Worst Warships provides a history of steel navy mistakes, beginning in the 1860s when steam propulsion, turret mechanisms and armoured hulls were all in their infancy, and ships of questionable seaworthiness such as the USS Monitor were built and sank. Building its story through a succession of case studies, it reaches the 21st century with a demolition of that glamorous 20th-century phenomenon, the fast attack craft. In between, the reader is treated to a brief history of naval construction through two world wars and several minor ones



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