Naval Firepower：Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era-Norman Friedman

A US Battle Squadron is shown during gunnery practice in 1921. The leading ship is Nevada or Oklahoma, distinguishable by her pattern of secondary gun mounts. Note the characteristic US cage masts, intended to insure that ships could keep firing at long range despite mast hits, and the bearing markings on No 2 turret.

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Copyright © Norman Friedman 2008

First published in Great Britain in 2008 by

Seaforth Publishing

An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Friedman, Norman, 1946-

Naval Firepower : battleship guns and gunnery in the dreadnought era

1. Fire control (Naval gunnery) – History 2. Battleships –

History 3. Naval art and science – History – 19th century

4. Naval art and science – History – 20th century 5. Naval

history,Modern – 19th century 6. Naval history,Modern – 20th century

I. Title

623.5’53’09

ISBN 978-1-84415-701-3

PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-84832-185-4

PDF ISBN: 9781473828216

EPUB ISBN: 9781844681761

PRC ISBN: 9781844681778

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Act 1988.

Designed and typeset by Roger Daniels

Printed and bound in Singapore

Contents

Note on units of measurement

Note on abbreviations

Author’s acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Gunnery Problem

2 Range-keeping

3 Shooting and Hitting

4 Tactics 1904–14

5 The Surprises of War 1914–18

6 Between the Wars

7 The Second World War

8 The German Navy

9 The US Navy

10 The US Navy at War

11 The Imperial Japanese Navy

12 The French Navy

13 The Italian Navy

14 The Russian and Soviet Navies

Appendix: Propellants, Guns, Shells and Armour

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

No