Table of Contents
1. Preface /5
2. Artillery and accuracy in second half of XIX century /7
Firing of sea /7
Range finding /8
Firing to moving target /9
Stability and accuracy /10
Guns and shells versus armour scheme /11
Material for armour /28
Fire control systems, shooting procedures, increasing the combat distance /32
3. Heavy ships from the end of the XIX and early XX centuries /36
First battleships - in some countries named ironclads /36
Central side battery battleship (ironclads) /37
Casemate battleships (Ironclads) /38
Turret battleships (ironclads) /39
Barbette battleships (ironclads) /43
Predreadnoughts and semidreadnoughts /45
Dreadnoughts /48
Armoured cruisers /51
Large armoured cruisers. Dreadnought cruisers. Battlecruisers /53
Super-dreadnoughts /62
4. American heavy ships at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries /64
5. Maine (ACR-1) and Texas /66
Maine / Texas and rest of the world /71
France: armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lome /73
Great Britain: Battleships Trafalgar class first class cruisers Blake class /78
Battleships Trafalgar class /78
First class cruisers Blake class /81
Spain: class Infanta Maria Teresa /86
6. First American armoured cruiser - USS New York (ACR-2) /96
New York and rest of the world /102
Russia: Rurik /103
Great Britain: First class cruisers of the Edgar class /106
Italy: armoured cruisers Marco Polo class /111
7. Cruisers Columbia class (C-12) /115
Columbia and rest of the world /118
France: armoured cruisers of the Amiral Charner class /119
Italy: armoured cruiser Vettor Pisani class /122
Austria-Hungary: armoured cruiser Kaiserin und Konigin Maria Teresa /124
8. First serial "coastline battleshios" USA: Indiana Class (B/BB-1) /126
Indiana and rest of the world /131
France: battleship Jaureguiberry /138
Germany: battleships of the Brandenburg class /145
Great Britain: battleships of the Royal Sovereign class, and HMS Hood /152
Russia: Battleshio Navarin /159
9. First "seagoing coastline battership" USS Iowa (B/BB-4) /166
Iowa and rest of the world /170
Russia: battleships of the Petropavlovsk /171
France: battleship Bouvet /175
Great Britain: battleshios of the Majestic class /179
10. Armoured cruiser Brooklyn (ACR-3) /191
Brookyn and rest of the world /193
Russia: Armoured cruiser Russia /195
France: Armoured cruiser Pothuau and protected cruiser D`Entrecasteaux /198
Spain: Armoured cruiser Calos V /202
Italy/Argentina: armoured cruisers Giuseppe Garibaldi /203
Great Britain: Cruisers of the Powerful and Diadem class /205
11. Battleships of the Kearsage class (B/BB-5) /222
Kearsage and rest of the world /229
Great Britain: battleships of theMajestic / Illustrious class /231
France: battleships of the Charlemagne class /235
Russia: battleships of the Peresvet class /239
Germany: Battleships of the Kaiser Friedrich III, armoured cruiser Furst Bismarck /242
12. Battleships of tthe Illinois class (B/BB-7) /249
Illinois and rest of the world /253
Great Britiain: Battleship of the Canopus class /254
Japan: battleship of the Shikishima class/260
France: battleship Henri IV /262
13. Appendices /268
Armament /268
Heavy artillery /270
Self defence artillery /290
Medium artillery /299
14. Indexes /305
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