The battleship Empress Maria. A century-long legend.
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The battleship Empress Maria. A century-long legend.
49.99 €
This book by S.E. Vinogradov, a leading Russian specialist in the history of heavy artillery ships of the early 20th century and a PhD in history and senior researcher at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, is dedicated to the "Empress Maria"—a ship with a short but illustrious history. The commissioning of this battleship in the summer of 1915 marked a milestone in the Black Sea Fleet's combat operations, ensuring a qualitative superiority over the enemy and enabling it to freely conduct any operations throughout the Black Sea.
For the first time, the circumstances of the battleship's fire and explosion in Sevastopol on October 7 (20), 1916, are examined in detail using extensive documentary sources. It describes in detail what happened on the dreadnought, the crew's struggle to maintain the ship's survivability, and its demise. The book also cites the investigation materials of the Black Sea Fleet and Naval Ministry commissions and their findings. Multiple theories about the cause of the fire and explosion are examined, and the actions of the battleship's command and sailors during the disaster are analyzed. The operation to recover ammunition from the sunken ship and to raise the battleship's hull and gun turrets to the surface is covered in detail.
Unique in its breadth of material, based on documents from seven archives (including those in the UK, Germany, and the US), and rare manuscripts from museums and libraries, this work covers every aspect of the Empress Maria's history—politics and naval strategy, equipment and technology, combat use, the ship's tragedy, and its recovery, thus concluding the story of the legendary dreadnought.
For the first time, the circumstances of the battleship's fire and explosion in Sevastopol on October 7 (20), 1916, are examined in detail using extensive documentary sources. It describes in detail what happened on the dreadnought, the crew's struggle to maintain the ship's survivability, and its demise. The book also cites the investigation materials of the Black Sea Fleet and Naval Ministry commissions and their findings. Multiple theories about the cause of the fire and explosion are examined, and the actions of the battleship's command and sailors during the disaster are analyzed. The operation to recover ammunition from the sunken ship and to raise the battleship's hull and gun turrets to the surface is covered in detail.
Unique in its breadth of material, based on documents from seven archives (including those in the UK, Germany, and the US), and rare manuscripts from museums and libraries, this work covers every aspect of the Empress Maria's history—politics and naval strategy, equipment and technology, combat use, the ship's tragedy, and its recovery, thus concluding the story of the legendary dreadnought.
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