From Baird Maritime
"The dogs bark and the caravan passes on". That is pretty much what happened to the world's battlecruisers including those famously constructed on the Clyde.
Military technology changes very rapidly and particularly as it applies to warships. The first battlecruiser built by John Brown & Co was trialled in November 1908. The last of these magnificent ships 'HMS Hood' trialled in March 1920. She was more than double the size of her original sister-ship 'Inflexible'.
Sadly, technology passed them by and two decades later they were largely outclassed. 'Hood' and 'Repulse', in particular, met tragic but quite different fates.
This book, though, does them proud. Brilliantly illustrated and with a very detailed text, it describes their conception, design, construction and trials.
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