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Course: Battleships: From the Merrimack to the Missouri (OSH-BATSHP)
The age of Battleships spanned less than 80 years and for much of that period they were either not ready for prime time or well past their prime. Yet during that period they were the symbol of both national pride and national humiliation and an enormous drain on their treasuries. They provided a stage for heroes and scoundrels, the fools and the wise. Men and ships were sacrificed on the most ill-starred objectives and through it all, barely a handful of engagements between battleships, cruisers and even destroyers produced a decisive result.
This course follows the development of the Battleship from the first ironclads to the giants of World War II. It traces the development of primitive steam engines, the slow but inevitable shift from pistons and coal to turbines and oil, the early triumphs and disasters of battle fleets and the vast and far flung engagements of the great Dreadnoughts. It is based on a PowerPoint presentation with thousands of embedded images, videos and animated graphics.
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