Status
Available
Call number
Series
Genres
Collection
Publication
US Naval Institute Press (1994), Hardcover, 111 pages
Description
One of the first specialist warships, the bomb vessel was a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purposes of bombarding stationary targets, such as coastal towns, fortifications or harbours. For its time, it was a complex and high-tech weapons system, and was widely used by the British in every conflict between 1689 and the War of 1812. Because of their strength, bomb vessels played a major role in Arctic exploration.
Language
Physical description
111 p.
ISBN
1557500711 / 9781557500717