Battleship Builders. Constructing and arming British capital ships
Details:
- Author(s) Johnston, Ian, & Ian Buxton
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 320pp; illus
- Publisher Seaforth
- Place Published Barnsley
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- Name Government procurement
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work published for a broad readership dealing with the 'vast' industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine builders, armour plate producers, etc, mobilised to rebuild the British battle fleet - ie Dreadnought battleships - from 1906 in competition with Germany. Also touches on post 1918 industrial contraction in production and draws comparisons with 1930s rearmament programme. Has chapters: 'An upward trajectory, 1860-1919'; 'Retrenchment and revival, 1920-1945'; 'The builders'; 'Building'; 'Facilities'; 'Powering'; 'Armament'; 'Armour and steel'; 'Exporting battleships'; 'Money'; 'Manpower'. Much business specific information, notably re Armstrong Whitworth; John Brown; Fairfield; Vickers; Beardmore; Wallsend Slipway; Coventry Ordnance Works; etc