Laird Rams

Name: Laird Rams
Brand: McFarland & Co Inc
SKU: 9781476682761
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Britain's Ironclads Built for the Confederacy, 1862-1923

Автор: Andrew R. English

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: McFarland & Co Inc

Наличност: Външен склад

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Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warsh...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Andrew R. English

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2021

страници

194

EAN

9781476682761

ISBN

1476682763

Enbook ID

35730839

Издател

McFarland & Co Inc

Теглоt

402

Размери

255 x 176 x 15

Пълно описание

Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. The vessels represented a substantial threat to Union naval power, and offered the Confederacy a potential means to break the Union blockade of the Southern coastline. During 1863, the critical year of the Confederacy's last hope of recognition by the British and French, President Lincoln threatened war with Britain if the ships ever sailed under Confederate colors. Built in some secrecy, then launched on the River Mersey under intense international scrutiny, the ships were first seized, and then purchased by Britain to avoid a war with the United States. These armored warships were largely forgotten after the Admiralty acquired them. Historians rarely mention these sister warships--if referred at all, they are given short shrift. This book provides the first complete history of these once famous ironclads that never fired a shot in anger yet served at distant stations as defenders of the British Empire.

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