Black Night off Finisterre by Arthur Hawkey: NEW 1st 1999 Edition Hardback

Author: Arthur Hawkey

Publisher: Airlife Publishing

Year published: 1999

Pagination: 192pp, 16 b/w phots, maps, ills

Condition: Old NEW Stock, nr.fine

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The tragic tale of the loss of HMS Captain, an early British Ironclad. She was the first ocean-going turret warship built to provide all-round firepower and was the first in a line of innovative designs that peaked before WWII. Despite disagreements between the ships designer, Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, RN, and Edward Reed, the Admiralty Constructor, who regarded the design as dangerous, the Admiralty made fatal compromises. The result was the loss of Captain in a fierce gale on the night of 6/7 September, 1870. The death toll was greater than at the Battle of Trafalgar.