Real Submarine Technology & History Q&A

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by DaveyJ576

Mr. Friedman's writing style is not the best in the world. It is very academic in nature, with a choppy and broken paragraph structure.

I was reading his book on the history of U.S. destroyers, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that naval history came to him as a sideline. His original professionwas teaching physics at the Naval War College. That explained a lot to me I didn't understand about his writing.

Of course even he didn't give me the one piece of information I was looking for, which was the hull plate thickness of the 1890s torpedo boat destroyers.