02886oam 2200613I 450 991045584040332120200520144314.00-429-23036-21-135-75371-71-280-09944-597866100994430-203-33768-910.4324/9780203337684 (CKB)2430000000000215(EBL)199746(OCoLC)437059701(SSID)ssj0000308716(PQKBManifestationID)11257907(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308716(PQKBWorkID)10258689(PQKB)10801260(MiAaPQ)EBC199746(Au-PeEL)EBL199746(CaPaEBR)ebr10162075(CaONFJC)MIL9944(OCoLC)972009874(EXLCZ)99243000000000021520180331d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Royal Navy, 1930-2000 innovation and defence /editor, Richard HardingLondon :Frank Cass,2005.1 online resource (316 p.)Cass series--naval policy and historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7146-8581-X 0-7146-5710-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-292) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Managing the aerial threat; Amphibious warfare, 1930-1939; Naval aviation, 1930-2000; Welding and the British shipbuilding industry; Anti-submarine warfare, 1939-1945; The Royal Navy and the challenge of the fast submarine, 1945-1954; CVA-01; The Royal Navy and the guided missile; Amphibious operations 1945-1998; Electronics and the Royal Navy; Select bibliography; IndexThis new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990. Successful adaptation to new conditions has been critical to all navies at all times. To naval historians the significance and process of change is not new, but in recent years innovation has been increasingly studied within a number of other disciplines, providing new theoretical positions and insights. This study examines key case studies of change, some successful others less so, which place the experienCass series--naval policy and history.Great BritainHistory, Naval20th centuryElectronic books.359/.00941/0904Harding Richard1953-956127FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910455840403321The Royal Navy, 1930-20002164346UNINA