Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945

Author: D. K. Brown
Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945
Seaforth Publishing / Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848321503
2012
Format: EPUB
Pages: 208
Size: 8 Mb
Language: English

This design history of postwar British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the author's masterly account of development of Royal Navy's ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval Constructor, while this personal knowledge is augmented by George Moore's in-depth archival research on recently declassified material.The RN fleet in 1945 was old and worn out, while new threats and technologies, and postwar austerity called for new solutions. How designers responded to these unprecedented challenges is the central theme of this book. It covers the ambitious plans for the conversion or replacement of the bigger ships; looks at all the new construction, from aircraft carriers, through destroyers and frigates, to submarines (including nuclear and strategic), to minesweepers and small craft.