Classic Ships: Romance and Reality (A Channel Four Book)

by Nicholas: Faith

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075221022X
• ISBN13: 9780752210223
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: BOXTREE LTD
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Fairly Good Introduction to British Shipping & Boating

This book attempts to introduce the reader to a very broad spectrum of British ships and smaller craft, ranging from great ocean liners and warships to fishing and recreational boats. Using a very good array of photographs, both black and white as well as colour, this book does provide a good overall historical chronology of the development of British shipping and boating, and includes profiles of several selected ship and craft from the liner SS Southern Cross to Motor Torpedo Boats, the Norfolk Wherry, and "Golden Hind" class sailboats. All in all, a good coffee table book for light reading, but the serious maritime enthusiast or researcher might be a little disappointed.