Extracts from Brassey's Naval Annual
Dr. George Elder (GHE101@aol.com) has been kind enough to scan and forward this rich
source of material. A word of warning: much of the technical information is quite
accurate, but Brassey's was published (like Jane's Fighting Ships) using "available"
information. Considerations of secrecy were different back then, but nevertheless, all
navies kept much hidden away.
Just click on each entry below to start that section (file sizes are about 200k each):
- 1888-1889 Warship Plans
- 1890 Armour Trial Reports
- 1894 Ordnance
- 1895 Armour Review
- 1898:
- 1899:
- 1901:
- 1902:
- 1904:
- 1905:
- 1913: Armour and Ordnance
- Frontspiece (and drawings of US California class armoured cruisers)
- (general progress)
- (range transmitters, spotting, fire control, "Mr Pollen's Invention")
- (Vicker's rate of change clock, Dumaresq clock, Director Firing)
- (heavy guns, foreign advances)
- (disposition of guns, triple turrets)
- (attack of armour, life of the gun)
- (propellants and erosion, guns and projectiles)
- (torpedoes, projectiles, fuses, armour, cast steel armour)
- (Foreign Powers)
- (projectiles, armour, anti-aircraft weapons, United States)
- (France)
- (Germany)
- (Italy)
- (Austria-Hungary)
- (A-H, table of British rifled ordnance)
- (British rifled ordnance continued)
- (Austrian + Danish naval ordnance)
- (Dutch + French naval ordnance)
- (French + Italian naval ordnance)
- (Norwegian + Russian naval ordnance)
- (Spanish + Swedish naval ordnance)
- (US naval ordnance, table of Elswick BL + QF guns and howitzers)
- (Vickers Sons & Maxims guns + mountings, Coventry Ordnance Works guns)
- (Beardmore guns, Schneider guns)
- (Krupp + Bethleham Steel guns)
- (Bofors guns + unit conversion tables)
Courtesy of Warship TechSpec
Last Updated: 2 September, 2002.
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