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The Age of the Ship of the Line "British and French Navies 1650-1815"

The Age of the Ship of the Line "British and French Navies 1650-1815"

Dull, Jonathan R.

Seaforth Publishing

In the series of wars that raged between France and Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries,seapower was of absolute vital importance. Not only was each nation's navy a key to victory, but was a prerequisite for imperial dominance. These ongoing struggles for overseas colonies and commercial dominance required efficient navies which in turn ...

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pvp.35,00 €

Sailing into the Past "Learning from Replica Ships"

Sailing into the Past "Learning from Replica Ships"

Seaforth Publishing

Until recently, there was little practical knowledge of the ships of the distant past. We could only surmise as to the manner in which a Viking ship sailed or how fast a Greek trireme could be rowed. The building of accurate replicas over the past generation has changed all that, and what has been learnt ...

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pvp.33,00 €

Destroyer Battles "Epics of Naval Close Combat"

Destroyer Battles "Epics of Naval Close Combat"

Stern, Robert C.

Seaforth Publishing

ast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought battles, using both torpedoes ...

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Clydebank Battlecruisers "Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard"

Clydebank Battlecruisers "Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard"

Johnston, Ian

Seaforth Publishing

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design, this represents every step in the evolution of these charismatic, and ...

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pvp.24,00 €

SS Great Britain

SS Great Britain

Davies, Wynford

Seaforth Publishing

The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Brunel, was the first ocean-going vessel to be screw-driven and built entirely of iron. When she was launched in 1843 she was twice the size of any previous ship and her revolutionary design heralded a complete break with traditional ship construction. As is the case for many historic ...

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pvp.19,90 €

HMS Victory "First Rate 1765"

HMS Victory "First Rate 1765"

Ballantyne, Iain

Seaforth Publishing

HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy's achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year.

As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative ...

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pvp.23,00 €

ShipCraft 14: Yamato Class Battleships

ShipCraft 14: Yamato Class Battleships

Wiper, Steve

Seaforth Publishing

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, ...

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Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls "A Tabletop Game of Naval Battles in the Age of Sail"

Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls "A Tabletop Game of Naval Battles in the Age of Sail"

Abbey, Alan

Pen and Sword

Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the age of sail. They are fun, fast-playing and very easy to learn. Each player can easily command a single ship or several, the rules working equally well for a single frigate chasing down a privateer, or a large-scale fleet ...

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pvp.16,00 €

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII "Destroyers, Frigates, Escorts, Minesweepers, Coastal Warfare Craft, Submarines & Auxiliaries"

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII "Destroyers, Frigates, Escorts, Minesweepers, Coastal Warfare Craft, Submarines & Auxiliaries"

Wright, Malcolm

Seaforth Publishing

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this now classic work by maritime artist Mal Wright both the official ...

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pvp.24,00 €

Battleship Bismarck "A Design and Operational History"

Battleship Bismarck "A Design and Operational History"

Cameron, James

Seaforth Publishing

This new book on Bismarck offers a forensic analysis of the design, operation and loss of Germany's greatest battleship and draws on survivors' accounts and the authors' combined decades of experience in naval architecture and command at sea. Their investigation into every aspect of this battleship has taken fifty-six years of painstaking research, during which ...

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pvp.75,00 €

The Windfall Battleships "Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Latin-American & Balkan Arms Races"

The Windfall Battleships "Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Latin-American & Balkan Arms Races"

Dodson, Aidan

Seaforth Publishing

This new book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outbreak of the First World War. Under construction by the shipbuilding giants of Armstrong and Vickers in August 1914, Sultan Osman I, Resadiye, Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane became HM ...

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pvp.32,00 €

Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 "Volume III: Naval Auxiliaries"

Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 "Volume III: Naval Auxiliaries"

Budzbon, Przemyslaw

Seaforth Publishing

Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ( openness') the Russian state has again restricted access to historical archives. Therefore, the value and originality ...

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pvp.62,00 €