Battleships; United States Battleships in World War II

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981. Second printing [stated] with corrections. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Robert F. Sumrall (Line Drawings). vii, [5], 291, [1] pages. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Illustrated Endpapers. Illustrations. Includes chapters Introduction, The North Carolina Class, The South Dakota Class, The Iowa Class, the Montana Class, the Alaska Class, and Conclusion. Appendixes: A. The TOSA Experiments; B. Representative Battleship Arrangement; C. Battleship and Battlecruiser Guns; D. Preliminary Designs of North Carolina; and Iowa-Class Conversion and Modernization Design Projects--1956-1981. Bibliography. Index. Profusely illustrated, definitive technical history of all US battleships since 1930. Robert O. Dulin, Jr. graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1961, where he received the U. S. Naval Institute Westcott Prize for the best term paper on an historical subject. The paper, entitled "The Yamato Class--A Design Study," which might be said to be the genesis of Battleships, has been integrated into this book in a revised form. William H. Garzke is a 1960 UM NAME graduate who was cited by SNAME as one of the 100 notable naval architects of the twentieth century in 1993. He has written five definitive works on battleships from WWII as well as Titanic Ship, Titanic Disasters, a forensic analysis of what really caused the demise of the Titanic, Britannic and Lusitania. Following graduation from high school Robert F. Sumrall served in the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve from 1947 until his retirement, as a Hull Technician Chief Petty Officer, from the battleship USS Iowa in 1990. In addition to Iowa, he served in eight destroyers, two destroyer escorts, two submarine tenders, one minesweeper, and two patrol craft. Mr. Sumrall held an extensive knowledge of naval architecture and marine engineering from his earlier employment at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, and two marine engine manufacturers. He is the author of Iowa Class Battleships and Sumner-Gearing Class Destroyers published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press. His other writings include over twenty technical/historical monographs of U.S. naval vessels and articles for the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Conway's History of the Ship, Conway's Warship, and other similar journals. A master draftsman, he drafted the hull and lines plans for the book Battleships: United Battleships in World War II, authored by Robert O. Dulin and William H. Garzke. Mr. Sumrall was the former Assistant Director and Curator of Ship Models at the United States Naval Academy Museum. Except for various periods of active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve he was with the museum from 1970 until his retirement in 2006. He was responsible for the Academy's world renowned Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of 17th and 18th century dockyard models. Mr. Sumrall was an exceptional ship model maker and hand crafted numerous models of naval vessels and sailing craft indigenous to Maryland. He was an acknowledged expert in the field of naval camouflage as used by U.S. naval vessels during World War II.