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- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Corsair in the War Zone
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3957
Re: Corsair in the War Zone
The Corsair was steam powered and could make 19 knots!
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Corsair in the War Zone
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3957
Corsair in the War Zone
The Corsair in the War Zone by Ralph Delahaye Paine is a recently added book on Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72760 ). The Corsair was J.P. Morgan's yacht, offered for and accepted into naval service during World War I. The ship escorted convoys (mainly in the Bay of Biscay),...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: How might China attack Taiwan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10627
Re: How might China attack Taiwan
I meant to have a question mark at the end of that title: How might China attack Taiwan?
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:48 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: How might China attack Taiwan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10627
How might China attack Taiwan
If China moves to absorb Taiwan with military action, what will it do? In “How China Might Invade Taiwan” ( Naval War College Review ,Vol. 54, No. 4, Autumn 2001, Article 5, https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol54/iss4/5 ), Piers M. Wood and Charles D. Ferguson posited a phased assault, w...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Chaser Gun on Paddle Steamer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2723
Re: Chaser Gun on Paddle Steamer
The inability to fire forward reminds me of a visit to the battleship New Jersey. There was a huge antenna mounted on the deck near the bow. I asked the docent how the main battery could be fired straight ahead, and he answered that the main battery was never fired straight ahead.
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:42 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Amphibious operations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5158
Re: Amphibious operations
I found a document that will probably interest you, though it doesn't have specific answers to the questions you asked. On the Hyperwar website at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/Amphibious/index.html you can read "Landing Operations Doctrine, United States Navy, 1938." It doesn't ...
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:20 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: True Account of Jutland
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19166
True Account of Jutland
Project Gutenberg has posted "A True Account of the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916" by Thomas G. Frothingham, Captain, U. S. R. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bacon & Brown, 1920) at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47949 . Apparently it was one of the first documents to make use of both B...