Great Naval Blunders (9781780120508)

From the Admiral Popov , the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight, to the HMS Trinidad , a British cruiser that managed to torpedo itself, this copiously illustrated collection of incompetence on the high seas takes a serious if often entertaining look at the misjudgments of captains, fleet commanders, and ship designers from Roman times to the present day. Full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Great Naval Blunders proves the old adage, "Worse things happen at sea."