U.S. Battleships in Action, Part 2 (Repost)
U.S. Battleships in Action, Part 2 (Warships 4004) By Robert C. Stern, Don Geer, Kevin Wornkey
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications 1984 | 52 Pages | ISBN: 0897471571 | PDF | 26 MB
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications 1984 | 52 Pages | ISBN: 0897471571 | PDF | 26 MB
The Washington Treaty of 1922 brought a halt to an ambitious program of capital ship construction by the US Navy. Seven battleships and six battlecruisers were either broken up during construction or never started. One battleship, USS Washington (BB-47), was 75.9 per cent complete when work was abandoned on 8 February 1922. The treaty limited the United States Navy and Great Britain's Royal Navy to eighteen and twenty capital ships respectively, Japan to ten and France and Italy to fewer yet. In the decade that followed the signing of the treaty only two new battleships were completed, the Royal Navy's Nelson and Rodney which had been started in 1922 and were specifically permitted by the Washington Treaty because of the obsolescence of many of the RN's existing capital ships. Otherwise, there followed a 'holiday' in battleship construction broken only in 1932 by the laying down of France's 26,500t Dunkirque.