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Finally I received my copy yesterday. I am a little dissapointed. In first place it is announced in Amazon as a 256 pages book (like Dreadnought), but it has only 160. In my opinion are missing: -boiler schemes. -machinery schemes. -frame construction and skin schemes. -steering machinery arrangemen...

Did anybody receive it?
Amazon.co.uk dispatched mine yesterday.

Dave, thank you very much for the data. Raven and Roberts is not available in amazon, so I will have to wait till it is reedited!

Which are the books by Raven and Roberts? I have Battlecruisers by Roberts and it is very, very poor. I have US Submarine Design by Friedman and didn´t like it too.

Dave, are the trio of books by Mr. Garzke worth buying?

I think that if the battlecruiser manages to keep distance using its superior speed, it would be very difficult for the germans to sink it. On the other hand if Graf Spee divides his ships so the Australia has to concentrate on targets from different bearings, he has a slight chance of closing dista...

Does the fire control radar provides enemy bearing, course, speed and distance?
The guns are aimed from the control station or have director aiming in the top?

Does anybody know how the German fire control worked, I mean is there a detailed explanation as that found in http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org for the British WWI fire control system?

Why didn't Scharnhort just disengage from the battle?

Don´t forget the cruisers fired at (in naval terms) point blank range and the Japanase battleship was rather thin skinned.

I think Jutland is the greatest CONVENTIONAL (ie: no aircraft carriers) naval battle of all times. This puts Midway and Leyte Gulf out of the discussion. Think of it: almost 60 battleships and battlecruisers fighting in the North Sea, two British battlecruisers lost with 3000 lives in a matter of mi...

Hi, I undertstand that there is a valve located in the steam pipe that brings the steam from the boiler room to the engine room, so the pressure of steam can be regulated to set the speed of the turbine.