Alfred Yarrow's destroyers. British "killers" of battleships
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"Batum", the first seaworthy destroyer of the Russian Navy, which served as a prototype for the further development of this class in Russia, was built in 1880 at the shipyard of the famous shipbuilder Alfred Yarrow (1842-1932) and made history as the first destroyer in the world, made an independent long sea passage - from London to the Black Sea. The destroyers of Yarrow & Company, one of the leading shipbuilding companies, from its foundation until the end of the Second World War, together with the destroyers of the firm of John Thornicroft, stood not only at the origins of their inception, but also the transformation from an unreliable boat, often more dangerous to its own crew than to the enemy, into a formidable warship, a real "miracle weapon" of the late XIX century, posing a serious threat to the lord of the seas of that time - the battleship. The book by a famous historian of the navy for the first time in all details restores the line of development, design, service and combat application of destroyers...
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