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The Bomb Vessel: Shore Bombardment Ships of the Age of Sail
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One of the first specialist warships, the bomb vessel was a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets, such as towns, fortifications, or harbor installations. This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the ships, their weapons, and their strategic importance.
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111 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,1994
This edition
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111 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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January 1, 1994 by Naval Institute Press
- ISBN
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9781557500717
- ASIN
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1557500711
- Language
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English
About the author
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Franklin Christenson ('Chris') Ware is a cartoonist. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.
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