World of Warship

The book has been split into several sections for ebook publication because the complete file is so large and unwieldy as to be impractical. This is chapter 6 of the complete book, and contains 56 figures, 17 photographs, and 6 tables providing every imaginable detail about the main gun turrets that were the pride of the YAMATO and the Japanese Navy.

87 photos, 202 figures and drawings, 60 tables, and 15 maps and tracks. Recognising the impossibility of improving upon the (in)famous 5:5:3 ratio of the Washington Naval Treaty when the expected naval race would begin as the treaty expired, the Imperial Japanese Navy resorted to a strategy of qualitative superiority to overcome the American quantitative edge.

The book has been split into several sections for ebook publication because the complete file is so large and unwieldy as to be impractical. This is chapter 6 of the complete book, and contains 56 figures, 17 photographs, and 6 tables providing every imaginable detail about the main gun turrets that were the pride of the YAMATO and the Japanese Navy.

The book has been split into several sections for ebook publication because the complete file is so large and unwieldy as to be impractical. This is chapters 4 and 5 of the complete book, covering the bridge structure and the armor protection. This file contains 30 figures, 6 photographs, and 8 tables.

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.

The world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated. A wide variety of galleys and other types of warships were built by successive civilisations, each with their own distinctive appearance, capability and utility. The earliest of these were the Punt ships and the war galleys of Egypt which defeated the Sea People in the first known naval battle.