All the World's Destroyers: From Inception to World War I
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All the World's Destroyers: From Inception to World War I
39.99 €
In 1873, the famous British firm of John Thornycroft built the world's first mine-carrying ship for the Norwegian Navy. The Rapp destroyer carried a pole mine, which was later replaced by a torpedo launcher. Five years later, the first successful torpedo attack in world history was carried out (during the Russo-Turkish War, the Black Sea Fleet's minesweepers "Chesma" and "Navarin" sank the military steamer "Intibah"), and the destroyers gained fame as a true "miracle weapon" of the late 19th century. In this fundamental reference book, which has no analogues in domestic or foreign literature, leading historians of the navy in all details trace the evolution of warships class "destroyer" from their appearance to the beginning of the First World War. The book provides a truly exhaustive account of the creation, design, service, and combat use of more than 1,800 destroyers from Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norway, the Ottoman Empire, Peru, Portugal, the Russian Empire, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Siam, the United Kingdom and the United States, Venezuela, and Venezuela. The publication is illustrated with hundreds of unique photographs and exclusive projections of the destroyers.
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