Part I explains the design philosophy behind each of the classes built after 1922, and outlines the characteristics of each type, accompanied by detailed data tables and a comprehensive set of specially-drawn plans based on official documents, as well as carefully-selected photographs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership. The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. Information on the design, development and combat history of the vessel is also included, as well as numerous photographs and 1/350th scale drawings.Ĩ0 pages, 29.5 x 21 x 0.8 cm / 11.6 x 8.25 x 0.31 in, paperbackġ40 computer renders in 3D, scale drawings With various close-up views, and each 3D image based on actual technical scale drawings and photographs, this is an exceptional reference tool. With ground-breaking 3D imagery, each corner, angle, and dimension of the ship is viewable. Navy battleships.Ī volume in the Super Drawings in 3D Series. Her speed was surpassed only by the fastest U.S. Her armour and underwater protection were equal to her contemporaries, except the Japanese Yamato class battleships. Ordered in 1935, she was a scaled-up version of the Dunkerque class battleships, featuring a main armament of eight 380 mm guns in two quadruple turrets in forward superfiring positions. She was the first French 35,000-ton battleship, designed to counter the Italian Littorio class battleships, the first modern battleships built since the 1922 Treaty of Washington. The Richelieu was a French battleship, and the lead ship of her class.
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