Sunk! How the Great Battleships Were Lost

 

This book brings together for the first time accounts of the fates of some of those extinct monsters of the seas - the battleships. It catalogues the sinkings of major ships from the Italian Re d'Italia in 1866 to the Russian Novorossisk in 1955. Such famous names as the Royal Oak, Bismarck, and Oklahoma sail through the pages, and there are lesser known oddities such as the Cavour, which was sunk and raised no less than three times, and the Petropavlovsk, which was sunk at the end of World War I, raised and returned to service, and sunk again in World War II. The author has a flair for digging out little-know but fascinating episodes of modern naval history.

 

David Woodward

Hardcover with d/w 153pp George Allen & Unwin 1982 1st Ed

 

Fine/Fine

 

Book Code:  SH3019