The Battleship Builders. Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships. Строители линкоров. Строительство и вооружение британских флагманских кораблей

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During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of British industrial concerns involved in the construction of ships and the manufacture of armaments grew substantially in size, mainly through contracts from the British Admiralty and over­ seas governments. By the early 1900s, through a series of mergers and take-overs, these businesses had coalesced into a formidable naval construction industry comprised of vertically integrated companies employing tens of thou­ sands in their shipyards, engine works, ordnance factories, steel works, armour mills, forges and foundries across the UK.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Chapters
1: Introduction
2: An Upward Trajectory, 1860-1919
3: Retrenchment and Revival, 1920-1945
4: The Builders
5: Building
6: Facilities
7: Powering
8: Armament
9: Armour and Steel
10: Exporting Battleships
11: Money
12: Manpower
13: Conclusions
Appendices
1: Tenders 1905 to 1945, John Brown & Co Ltd
2: Armour, the Admiralty and Parliament
3: The British Battleship Breaking Industry
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index