The history of naval artillery is a long and complex one and this highly-illustrated, single-volume work sets out to present a coherent story which will appeal both to the enthusiast as well as to the scholar and expert. It starts with the earliest guns, the bronze-cast cannon, which were cast employing the same technology as used for making church bells. A plethora of guns were soon to develop and along with them a multiplicity of names: basilisk, bombard, culverin, drake, minion, saker, passavolante, serpentine, and many ...
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The history of naval artillery is a long and complex one and this highly-illustrated, single-volume work sets out to present a coherent story which will appeal both to the enthusiast as well as to the scholar and expert. It starts with the earliest guns, the bronze-cast cannon, which were cast employing the same technology as used for making church bells. A plethora of guns were soon to develop and along with them a multiplicity of names: basilisk, bombard, culverin, drake, minion, saker, passavolante, serpentine, and many others. By the end of the seventeenth century this muzzle-loading, smoothbore weapon had pretty well reached the zenith of its development and not until the introduction of armour and the explosive shell in the nineteenth century was there any fundamental change. With the development of breech loading and rifled barrels the rate of fire, range and accuracy improved dramatically. Today the navies of the world have fully automatic guns which load, train, lay and fire themselves with deadly accuracy. The author describes all these developments using examples of extant weapons which can be found in military and naval museums around the world, at memorial sites and monuments, and in private collections and museum ships. Russian and Soviet ships' guns have been included, as have shore defence weapons. The text contains descriptions of 275 naval guns, and photographs have been complemented by barrel diagrams and other contemporary drawings and sketches. It also provides a guide to their whereabouts in the world's museums.
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Add this copy of Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery to cart. $29.46, very good condition, Sold by Cornell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tewkesbury, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by London: Chatham Publishing, 2002.
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First edition in English (hardback). Oblong 4to (25cm by 30cm), 216pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in b&w but including a few pages in colour. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 1861762011.
Add this copy of Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery to cart. $61.08, very good condition, Sold by Cambridge Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cambridge, Gloucestershire, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Chatham Publishing.
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2002. Chatham. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG+. Dj-VG. 9.5x11.5. 216pp. Profuse colour & b/w photos & illus, illus endpapers. This lavishly-illustrated history of naval and coastal artillery, from the mid fifteenth century to the present, is written around a magnificent selection of photographs of armament still extant in museums and collections around the world.
Add this copy of Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery to cart. $131.20, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal.
Hans Mehl has produced a great book and I am pleased that the translation from the original German is sound. It is rare to see a book with good sized photographs of extent Naval Guns especially when most are on original Naval Carriages. I would highly recommend this book and his other books in the series. The large format Landscape book that opens along the short side is unusual but suits perfectly the format of the book
