NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR ONE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Norman Friedman | 320 pages | 15 Dec 2011 | Pen & Sword Books Ltd | 9781848321007 | English | Barnsley, United Kingdom List of naval guns by caliber - Wikipedia Between and weapons development was both rapid and complex, so this book has two functions: on the one hand it details all the guns, torpedoes, mines, aerial bombs and anti-submarine systems employed during that period; but it also seeks to explain the background to their evolution: how the weapons were perceived at the time and how they were actually used. This involves a discussion of tactics and emphasizes the key enabling technology of fire control and gun mountings. In this respect, the book treats the war as a transition from naval weapons which were essentially experimental at its outbreak to a state where they pointed directly to what would be used in World War II. Based largely on original research, this sophisticated book is more than a catalogue of the weapons, offering insight into some of the most important technical and operational factors influencing the war at sea. Reviews Review Policy. Published on. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF. Best for. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. Norman Friedman is a prominent naval analyst and the author of more than thirty books covering a range of naval subjects, from warship histories to contemporary defense issues. He is a longtime columnist for Proceedings magazine and lives in New York City. Naval Weapons of World War One. Norman Friedman. Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons the mine and torpedo as well as the first signs of the future potency of air power. Naval Weapons of World War One: : Norman Friedman: Books In the Dardanelles, the allied fleet blows up a disabled ship that interfered with navigation. For the first two years of the war the Allies accordingly concentrated their naval efforts on a defensive strategy of protecting trade routes, developing anti-submarine devices and maintaining the blockade rather than actively seeking direct confrontation. Defence was a vital strategy but it was also gruelling, repetitive and unglamorous. Many in the navy longed for decisive action and a great naval victory to recall the Battle of Trafalgar and gratify the general public. The minor battles of the Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank and the disastrous Dardanelles campaign did little to ease the tension. Converted from an ocean liner, the Argus could carry aircraft. Commissioned at the very end of WWI, the Argus did not see any combat. The Battle of Jutland was to be the only major naval battle of the First World War, and the most significant encounter between warships of the dreadnought era. During the night the High Seas Fleet made its escape and by the early hours of 1 June the battle was over. Both sides claimed the battle as a victory. Germany had inflicted greater losses on the Allies than it had suffered itself and yet the High Seas Fleet was incapacitated while the Grand Fleet remained the dominant naval factor. After the Battle of Jutland the High Seas Fleet never again attempted to engage the entire Grand Fleet, and German naval strategy refocused on covert underwater operations. A mine is dragged ashore on Heligoland, in the North Sea, on October 29, U-Boats attacked merchant vessels, hoping to disrupt Allied trade and similarly weaken Britain, an island nation dependent on its imports. The result was huge loss of life in the Merchant Navy and a shortage of British shipping with which shipbuilders could not keep pace. Neutral ships were not immune and neither were passenger liners. The renewed threat to civilians caused the USA to declare war in April , a month in which , tons of Allied shipping was sunk. The first time an aircraft was ever launched by catapult from a warship while underway was from the North Carolina on November 5, The Allied response was a system of convoys. Warships escorted merchant and passenger vessels, protecting them from U-Boat attack by virtue of strength in numbers. The concentration of shipping into small clusters in vast seas made ships harder rather than easier to find; evasive zigzag courses made it difficult for U- Boats to predict convoy routes and target torpedoes; and the accompanying warships were able to counter-attack using depth charges. Shipping losses dropped and by the time of the Armistice in , the loss rate in the convoys was less than 0. The war at sea was not characterised by monumental battles, glorious victories and haunting landscapes as was the war on land. The Battle of Jutland was the only full-scale direct action to occur between opposing navies and even this was indecisive. Yet the blockade of supplies to Germany weakened the country, directly contributing to the end of the war, as indeed the U-Boat campaign would have done in reverse had the convoy system not eventually succeeded in saving Britain from starvation. Control of the North Sea meant no less than the difference between independence and invasion. The war at sea was a test of nerves and ingenuity. Both sides had to master technologies and ways of fighting unimaginable just a few years earlier. It was a marathon of endurance and persistence, often thankless but always critically important. Men on deck of a ship removing ice. The Rocks of Andromeda, Jaffa, and transports laden with war supplies headed out to sea in This image was taken using the Paget process, an early experiment in color photography. Landing a mm gun at Sedd-el Bahr. Sailors aboard the French cruiser Amiral Aube pose for a photograph at an anvil attached to the deck. British submarine HMS A5. The A5, however, suffered an explosion only days after its commissioning in , and did not participate in the war. Navy Yard, Washington, D. A cat, the mascot of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, walks along the barrel of a inch gun on deck, in Navy transport ship, photographed in Dazzle camouflage, in The ship was originally a German passenger liner named the Prinzess Irene. She was docked in New York at the start of the war, and seized by the U. Last minute escape from a vessel torpedoed by a German sub. The vessel has already sunk its bow into the waves, and her stern is slowly lifting out of the water. Men can be seen sliding down ropes as the last boat is pulling away. The Burgess Seaplane, a variant of the Dunne D. This involves a discussion of tactics and emphasises the key enabling technology of fire control and gun mountings. In this respect the book treats the war as a transition from naval weapons which were essentially experimental at its outbreak to a state where they pointed directly to what would be used in World War Two. Based largely on original research, this sophisticated book is more than a catalogue of the weapons, offering insight into some of the most important technical and operational factors influencing the war at sea. In this respect it is more broadly significant than its title might suggest. Read more Read less. Special offers and product promotions Amazon Business : For business-exclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable VAT invoices. Create a free account. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Norman Friedman. Only 7 left in stock more on the way. Jeffrey Judge. Only 6 left in stock more on the way. In stock on November 20, British Battleships of the Victorian Era. Only 5 left in stock more on the way. British Submarines in Two World Wars. Only 15 left in stock. Customers who bought this item also bought. British Secret Projects 3: Fighters Tony Buttler. Only 1 left in stock. See all free Kindle reading apps. Start reading on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Review This is a superb piece of work, and an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in naval warfare during the First World War. Seaforth has recently published his well-received history of British destroyers in two volumes, with a similar volume on British cruisers in production. Customer reviews. How are ratings calculated? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from United Kingdom. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. I an actually reading the first few pages of "GUNS" part and i must say that nowhere else i read so much details about guns manufacturing. Galland5 P. One person found this helpful. Considering this book was first published in , this book isn't as well illustrated as it should have been, looking something akin to a book published in the 80's with no colour illustrations and not as many photos as you'd like. I think too much information has been crammed into one book with 11 nations weapons being described. Books with individual nations weapons would have been a much better proposition making more room for artwork and a lot more photos. Useful information but badly laid out i. Pen and Sword Books: Naval Weapons of World War One - ePub It greatly limited the freedom of action of fleets, particularly the British fleet, in the North Sea; mining also killed the campaign in the Dardanelles in I had been only dimly aware that the British deployed magnetic mines in and nearly deployed acoustic ones.