Through Light |
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Author:
| Pescali, Daniele Pescali, Elisabetta Tremolada Góralski, Waldemar |
Contribution by:
| Imago Art Gallery (London, England) Staff, |
Series title: | TopDrawings Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-88-366-1481-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
Publisher: | Kangero, Oficyna Wydawnicza
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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HMS
Badsworth (L03) was one of eighty-six British
Hunt-class escort destroyers. The class would eventually comprise four separate types built between 1939 and 1943. Design work on the class began in 1938. The Admiralty wanted to create warships optimized for convoy escort duties and patrolling. Since there was a huge demand for such vessels in the fleet, their cost was to be the deciding factor. A decision was made to design ships which would be smaller and slower than an...
More DescriptionHMS Badsworth (L03) was one of eighty-six British Hunt-class escort destroyers. The class would eventually comprise four separate types built between 1939 and 1943. Design work on the class began in 1938. The Admiralty wanted to create warships optimized for convoy escort duties and patrolling. Since there was a huge demand for such vessels in the fleet, their cost was to be the deciding factor. A decision was made to design ships which would be smaller and slower than an average destroyer. In conjunction with their overall simple design this was to allow for rapid mass-scale production. The design was based on the Black Swan-class sloop, but the new destroyers were to be faster and better armed.