The Mighty Hood PDF Ernle Bradford

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In one sense it was not new, for as early as the eleventh century Scandinavian saga-makers had sung of a ship with "its sides sheathed in iron”—“Ljot the Pale is in the east in the Swedish isles; he has a ‘dragon,’ covered with iron above the sea.”

The Hood was heavily armored—but she had been designed before the lessons of Jutland had been fully appreciated. The effect of plunging fire on the upperdecks of capital ships meant that those decks needed to be as well protected as her flanks.

As the ordnance factories machined and proved her guns— eight 15-inch guns each weighing 100 tons and housed in 900-ton revolving turrets—her four propellers, weighing 20 tons apiece, were being cast. Meanwhile riveters, suspended like the Lilliputians over the frame of Gulliver, were busy at their noisy, skillful trade.<

• Book Name: The Mighty Hood pdf
• Author Name Ernle Bradford
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2011

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