The Grand Fleet

David K Brown brings the knowledge and experience of a long career as a Naval Constructor to an account of the design of the warships with which the Royal Navy fought the First World War, and the influence of that conflict upon future warship design. This is a design history of British warships before, during and immediately after that war, when the Royal Navy was at the summit of its power, and truly ruled the waves. As well as the building of the new classes of Dreadnought battleship and the controversial battlecruisers, this book covers the development in the design of cruisers and smaller craft, and also the new weapons of naval warfare which were to have such influence in later years, the submarine and the aircraft carrier. A full analysis of the experience of battle damage in the First World War is given, and the effect that had on post-war designs up to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1923. It is also illustrated with contemporary photographs and draughts of the most significant designs.