The Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBDs) of the the 1890s - the first destroyers - were among the most glamorous naval vessels ever built. With their remarkable speed and their initial deployment against the Royal Navy's traditional enemy, the French, they caught the public imagination like no other ships of the period. During the late Victorian era one of the most significant naval developments was the invention of the "locomotive torpedo". Small boats were developed to use it, particularly by the French. These torpedo boats as ...
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The Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBDs) of the the 1890s - the first destroyers - were among the most glamorous naval vessels ever built. With their remarkable speed and their initial deployment against the Royal Navy's traditional enemy, the French, they caught the public imagination like no other ships of the period. During the late Victorian era one of the most significant naval developments was the invention of the "locomotive torpedo". Small boats were developed to use it, particularly by the French. These torpedo boats as they were known, were an obvious danger to the British battlefleet and something was needed to counter them. The Torpedo Boat Destroyers, built by Thornycroft and Yarrow in the early 1890s, were the Royal Navy's answer. Drawing on Admiralty documents and plans ,this work contains data on the early development of these vessels up to the River class of 1900.
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Very Good. Size: 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to); Incudes a foldout plan of HM Torpedo Boat Destroyer Velox 1904. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
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Roberts, John. Fair in Fair jacket. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 128pp. Frontis. Plans and cutaway drawings by John Roberts. 1st edtion 1996. Ex-library with usual library markings. (bs124)
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Hardback, quarto, measuring 11 5/8" x 9 7/8", small label of a bookseller and a previous owner to the foot of the front free endpaper otherwise a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, folding plan in pocket at rear, 128pp.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 10x0x11; Jacket spine lightly faded. 1996 Large Hardcover. 128 pp. Pocket in rear includes black-and-white fold-out of HM Torpedo Boat Destroyer Velox, 1904. A fascinating collection of information on the early development of the British torpedo boat destroyers up to the River class of 1900.
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