Full Description
The authors give a detailed account of the planning, design, and construction and the numerous prewar and wartime modifications of the individual ships of each cruiser class. Their technical particulars are found in the text itself, as well as in extensive data tables. Among the illustrations are more than 250 sets of fully detailed line drawings, traced for original blueprints, that show outboard and inboard profiles, hull lines, deck plans, sections, internal arrangments, machinery, armor, and bridge structures. Prewar and wartime histories of all the ships are also reported, with ship movements, combat experience, damage, refits, modifications, and final fate listed.
