HMS "London" (Warships of the Royal Navy)

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Автор: Iain Ballantyne

Название: HMS "London" (Warships of the Royal Navy)

Издательство: Seaforth Publishing

Год: 2002

Формат: EPUB

Страниц: 224

Размер: 35 Mb

Язык: English

There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured for better or worse in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history. For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th Century could be called 'the ship that lost America' while the heavy cruiser of WW2 was command vessel for the escort force that failed to safeguard the controversial convoy PQ17. In 'HMS London' the true stories behind those headlines are told, not least providing a grim insider perspective on the Arctic convoys, which literally broke the heavy cruiser in addition to demoralizing the sailors and marines who sailed in her.