It was included, alongside Joseph Delaney's The Spook Tale, in a £1 World Book Day publication. series was the short story Interception Point. But before they arrive, events take over, and Otto, Wing and his most trusted villain-friends find themselves in the sights of the most dangerous man alive, with nowhere to run to. are en route to a training exercise in the Arctic as the ninety-three-percenter, owing to the proportion of students that make it back alive.

Meanwhile, Otto, Wing and other students from H.I.V.E. One of their own has gone rogue and is threatening global Armageddon, with himself at the head of a sinister new world order. Highly recommended.The world's most powerful villains have a problem. other navies you will not find much or nothing. But be aware: there is the main focus on the british development, f.e. Each chapter is pretty interesting, even for the amateur, and it makes a great book to flip through and fall into from time to time. This book is highly technical and not something you just read like a novel. This was a period of tremendous change, from wood to steal, from sail to steam, and from experienced-based guesswork to mathematical calculation in design. Brown retired from the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors as Deputy Chief Naval Architect in 1988 and is hugely qualified as well as deeply interested in history. It is a perfect study of the warship design of the british navy in this period. He died in 2008.Ģ) Edward Reed and the Centre Battery Shipsĥ) Steel for Ships, Armour, Engines and Gunsġ1) Dreadnought, a Ship whose Time had Comeģ) The Use of the Admirality Coefficient (Ad Cft)Ĩ) Subdivision and Bulkheads in Merchant Ships

He published widely on the subject of warship design and built a reputation as a clear and brilliant commentator on the development of the ships of the Royal Navy. Brown was a distinguished naval architect who retired in 1988 as Deputy Chief Architect of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Brown explains how the Victorian Royal Navy, far from being the reactionary body it is often depicted to be, was, in fact, at the forefront of technological change.ĭ.K. It was a period that began with the fully rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battle cruisers of World War I. In the 50 years that separated HMS Warrior from Dreadnought there was a revolution in warship design unparalleled in naval history. Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 10 inches.Publisher: Naval Institute Press Reprint edition (January 15, 2011) or Chatham Publications or Caxton Editions (2004).

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