Cover

Half Title

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Part I: Pre-War Developments

Introduction

One Preparations for War

Two Attack and Defence: Pre-War Trials

Part II: Pre-War Designs

Three Battleships

Four Cruisers

Five Destroyers and Early Naval Aviation

Six Submarines

Part III: Wartime Experience and Design

Seven Major Vessels

Eight Wartime Destroyers and Aviation Vessels

Nine Wartime Submarines

Ten Smaller Vessels and Shipbuilding

Eleven Action Damage and the Experience of War

Twelve Warship Design from the Armistice to Washington

Thirteen The Achievement: the Right Ships and the Right Fleet

Appendices

1. Views on the All-Big-Gun Battleship

2. Thornycroft and Yarrow 'Specials' of the First World War

3. Riveting

4. The Stability of a Flooded Ship

5. Second Moment of Area and Moment of Inertia

Review of Principal Sources

Glossary and Abbreviations

Index