The Confederate Steam Torpedo Boat CSS David - Softcover

Teaster, Gerald F.

 
9780974455617: The Confederate Steam Torpedo Boat CSS David
Softcover
ISBN 10: 097445561X ISBN 13: 9780974455617
Verlag: Junior History Pr, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

This book tells the exciting story of the CSS David. The David was built in Moncks Corner in South Carolina and was the first ship to explode a torpedo against an enemy warship. It was a new, innovative vessel that helped change warfare. The book has many photographs and drawings and answers the following: * Why it was built in South Carolina. * How it worked and what its different parts were. * What it was like to take a cruise on the little boat. * How many crew members it had and what they did. * How it was different than any ship ever built before, anywhere in the world. * How it attacked the USS New Ironsides, most powerful ship in the world, at that time. * What happened to it after the Ironside's attack. * How many David type boats were built and what happened to them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerald F. Teaster is a native of Spartanburg County, South Carolina and is a licensed, Professional Engineer with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of South Carolina. He has worked in private industry, technical education, and the U.S. Department of Defense with the Army Missile Command, the Air Force, and the Navy. His experience with the U.S. Navy included 20 years of working on submarines, submarine tenders, destroyer tenders and other ships around the world. He was the Chairman of the Engineering Technology Division and Department Head for Mechanical Engineering Technology at what is now Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC. While there, he was in charge of designing and helping supervise the construction of full size replicas of both the Confederate submarine H.L Hunley and the Confederate torpedo boat CSS David. He has written several books on these vessels and other topics concerning South Carolina military history including the Battle of Cowpens. Presently, he is one of the owners and Director of Engineering for AJT Enterprises, Inc., a company involved in innovative methods of environmental cleanup.

Aus dem Klappentext

The CSS David made an attack against one of the most powerful ships in the world, the USS New Ironsides, in Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. It severely damaged the New Ironsides, but did not sink it. The David was one of the first boats of the modern era of warships. She broke away from a pattern of combat ships that had existed for over 300 years. The David's revolutionary features were: * The boat was powered by steam, not the wind. * The David had no cannons. Instead, it was fitted with a black powder torpedo. * The little boat was one of the very first stealth vessels. It was made to be stealthy not from radar, but from human vision. The David is one of the direct ancestors of present day surface attack ships. Following the Civil War, many nations deployed small, steam powered torpedo boats with their navies. This led to larger and faster destroyers, corvettes and destroyer escorts. The missions of the PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats of WWII would have been instantly recognizable to the members of the David's crew. Both struck at night, in enemy controlled waters, in small wooden boats against enemy ships that dwarfed them in size. The argument can be made that the David was actually the world's first PT boat.

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Verlag
Junior History Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
097445561X
ISBN 13 
9780974455617
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Rowland Rick
Anzahl der Seiten
44
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