Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. For more than 150 years it was the world’s most powerful force: between victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the withdrawal from ‘east of Suez’ in the 1960s, the ships of the Royal Navy were ubiquitous. From Newfoundland to New South Wales and Cyprus to Ceylon, the Royal Navy protected British interests, projecting British power, and maintaining...
This fundamental work was created by the Commander of the Engineering Forces of the British Royal Navy and traces the development of weapons of warships (smooth-bore and rifled) in the process of their evolution from sailing to screw-propelled. The work is extremely detailed and includes empirical assessments of various events over the past decades. The book is written in a...
New York: US Naval Institute Press, 1989. — 319 p. This is a vast collection of information, fully illustrated with photos of models and contemporary engravings, outlining developments as they were made in the English man-of-war. Lifestyles, customs, and fighting tactics, and their relationship to changes in architecture and fittings, are also covered.
Seaforth Publishing. An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd. in English, 224 p. Rewriting the history of the creation and use of sea monitors of the Royal Navy of Britain.
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 256 p. For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval. Britain was not simply defending an island; it was defending a far-flung empire. Without the navy, such an undertaking would have...
Chatham Publishing, 2006. — 351 p. British destroyers and frigates of World War II and after. The book describes destroyers built in the 1940s, starting with large Tribal-class destroyers with enhanced gun armament. They were followed by numerous three-turreted ships of the J, K, L, M, and N series. Traditionally, in each letter series, all ships bore names beginning with the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 400 p. Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes, and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armored cruisers.
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 320 p. A companion volume to the same author's "The British Field Marshals 1736-1997", this book outlines the lives of the 115 officers who held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy from 1734, when it took its modern form, to 1995, when the last one was appointed. Each entry gives details of the dates of the birth and death of its...
Maritime Books, 1986. — 160 p. Naval mine clearance was originally done by whatever type of vessel could easily be adapted to the task, paddle steamers proving particularly suited due to their shallow draught. In both World Wars naval trawlers were used, as they were naturally suitable for wire sweeping. In World War II this task was given to smaller trawlers of about 300 tons,...
William Collins, 2021. — 494 p. In 1940, Hitler had two choices when it came to the Mediterranean region: stay out, or commit sufficient forces to expel the British from the Middle East. Against his generals’ advice, the Fuhrer committed a major strategic blunder. He ordered the Wehrmacht to seize Crete, allowing the longtime British bastion of Malta to remain in Allied hands....
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 240 p. This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up-to-date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artifacts in the new museum in Portsmouth. Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognizable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant, and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige project, whose armament was increased by the King's decree to the unheard-of figure of one hundred guns, the ship finally cost the equivalent of ten more conventional warships. In this book, John...
Routledge, 2006. — 257 p. Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types — airplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons — to...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 312 p. The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793 – 1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain,...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 320 p. John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings many of which have never been published. British Naval Weapons of World War Two cover weapons carried by British destroyers...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st, 1805. In the HMS Victory Pocket Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 320 p. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 320 p. Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high-level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the...
The Library Press, 1915. — 358 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason, small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exists. The warships of the past are of...
The Library Press, 1915. — 316 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason, small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exists. The warships of the past are of...
Faber & Faber, 2012. — 576 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour, America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the...
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0-393-03846-7. They had names like Arethusa, Iphigenia, and Imperieuse, dashing names “as long as the maintop bowline, and hard enough to break your jaw” (Captain Frederick Marryat). They inspired the creations of such heroic fictional captains as C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey....
Grub Street Publishing, 2020. — 255 p. The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defense of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well-known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten-year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the...
Routledge, 2018. — 648 p. This is the second of three volumes covering the transformation of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. As the subtitle of this volume 'The Fleet Air Arm in Transition' suggests, the years 1942-1943 marked a stepping stone between the small pre-war cadre operating from a small number of carriers to a naval air arm flying modern aircraft types...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 220 p. Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes firsthand testimonies from pilots Manning early seaplane stations, an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland...
Grub Street Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Since the end of World War 2, the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner nations. The principal tools in that response were the strike aircraft which took the...
Routledge, 2021. — 277 p. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized naval aircraft carrier strikes, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defense of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War....
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 70 p. — (Warbirds Illustrated №33). This is a real nice collection and photographic mini book on the Fleet Air Arm from beautiful pictures of Hawker Sea Fury fighters up to Falklands War era Naval aircraft and carriers.
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 356 p. This book summarizes the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
Grub Street Publishing, 2009. — 308 p. Des Curtis was one of the founder members of the 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618’s primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr dams. The operation, code-named Operation Servant was given top security...
Silvertail Books, 2016. — 306 p. In 1942 Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a lethal weapon. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 270 p. In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm's policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes, and successes that characterized the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 192 p. The ‘X’ stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic, or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives — the world’s largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs of politicians and would remain an unwanted...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1988. — 64 p. — (Warships Illustrated №11). — ISBN10: 0-85368-778-1; ISBN13: 978-0-85368-778-8. The book is a lot of black and white naval photos with paragraph (or multiple paragraphs) captions of each picture with information about the Soviet submarine or naval vessel. For its time it was a good photo reference. Only one picture for many...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 135 p. For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realized in iron, timber, coal, and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 216 p. HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 332 p. Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear-powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first-class navy'. This exciting new book explores the changing attitudes to the submarine in Britain from World War One to the age of nuclear...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 439 p. Since the beginning of the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1901, 173 submarines have been lost and in many circumstances with their entire crew. War inevitably takes a heavy toll: in World War Two alone – 341 officers and 2,801 ratings failed to return to harbor. The loss of personnel was roughly equivalent to the strength of the Submarine...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 496 p. No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in North European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine activities. With detailed, accurate maps...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this. Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. The Naval Base was under constant air attack. Due to the...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 257 p. The Royal Navy, prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state throughout the century. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state and its effective funding and maintenance was a...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 208 p. This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors masterly account of development of Royal Navy's ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 268 p. The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 278 p. It has been widely accepted that British naval war planning from the late nineteenth century to the First World War was amateur and driven by personal political agenda. But Shawn T. Grimes argues that this was far from the case. His extensive original research shows that, in fact, the Royal Navy had a definitive war strategy, which was well...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 577 p. The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of World War II. It explains why this contribution, made while the Soviet Union’s fate remained in the balance and before American economic power took effect,...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2014. — 720 p. The longest story of British Royal Navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 297 p. This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 189 p. The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various military deployments (including the Falklands) and her evolving role and technical adaptation to meet changing...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 144 p. This is a must-buy for the Royal Navy and Submarine enthusiast, being a complete directory of RN submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a wealth of detail on each class. Every entry contains the specification, launch dates of individual boats, details of evolving construction and armament and other salient information in a compact...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 208 p. In this book, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought, renowned warship author D. K. Brown brings his knowledge and experience as a warship designer to the story of the Royal Navy's development of World War I warships and the influence of that conflict on future warship design. The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. In the 50 years that separated HMS Warrior from Dreadnought there was a revolution in warship design unparalleled in naval history. It was a period that began with the fully rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battle cruisers of World War I. Noted naval historian D.K. Brown explains how the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 224 p. Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – unofficial motto: Ready for Anything – was originally a logistic support organization, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 232 p. Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on...
Ashgate, 2011. — 648 p. Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 224 p. Germany’s attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on sea born trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 178 p. It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon deployed against the British Royal Navy in WW1, costing them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle steamers recruited from holiday resorts. This...
Routledge, 2007. — 271 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the present...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building "a navy second to none," one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the...
Ashgate, 2015. — 559 p. The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major cause of the Great War, it has become emblematic of all that is wrong with international competitions...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 736 p. When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued...
Endeavour Press Ltd., 2013. — 322 p. Nearly two centuries after his death, does Nelson deserve his reputation as one of the world's great commanders? Nelson's triumphs have so caught the public imagination that his failures are barely remembered. His only victorious battles at sea was Trafalgar (at Copenhagen and the Nile his destroyed ships at anchor), while his infatuation...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 567 p. Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navy’s brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review has never been subject to official censorship, and its naval members do not need official permission to write for it, so it has always provided an independent, lively and at times outspoken forum for service debate. In broad terms, it has covered...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 301 p. The history of weapons and warfare is usually written from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in particular, the story of how these weapons were invented, designed and supplied is seldom told. Chris Henry, in this pioneering study, sets the record straight. He describes how, to counter the extraordinary...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 352 p. This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War I to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theaters of war in which they served and their notable achievements and tragedies. It traces navy flying from the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 304 p. On the declaration of war in 1939, the British Admiralty signaled all warships and naval bases: Total Germany. It was fortunate that of Germany’s three armed services, the Kriegsmarine, under Grosser-admiral Erich Raeder, was the least well prepared. They had not expected to fight all-out war for another two to three years. While Admiral...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 252 p. Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding colour to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off, and in operations, including the sinking of the Konigsberg and the daring attack on the...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 400 p. In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable...
Penguin, 2006. — 976 p. The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in a dozen languages over more than a decade, it describes not just battles, voyages, and cruises but also...
W. W. Norton and Company, 1999. — 692 p. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire, and in all likelihood would have been...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 584 p. This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialities of eighteenth-century British administration. Originally published in 1965.
Faber and Faber, 2008. — 512 p. From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book spans Elizabethan times to the Second World...
Faber and Faber, 2012. — 560 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the...
University of Plymouth Press, 2012. — 304 p. In late 1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk by RAF Bomber Command. While it was the RAF that delivered the final coup de grace, it was the Royal Navy, from 1942 to 1944, that had contained, crippled and neutralised the German battleship in a series of actions marked by innovation, boldness and bravery. From daring commando...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 224 p. A distinguished British maritime writer, Woodman offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast...
Robinson Publishing, 2002. — 416 p. Extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries stride across these pages - some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood, are still renowned; others are almost unknown today, yet their brilliant exploits deserve to be pulled from under the long shadow of the greatest naval figure of all, Horatio Nelson. The...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 305 p. The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and...
University of London, 1967. — 310 p. Between 1603 and 1613 the navy James I had inherited rotted slowly at its moorings, neglected by corrupt principal officers and an ageing Lord Admiral Nottingham who refused to recognize any responsibility for the administration. Abortive attempts to reform the navy were made in 1608 and 1613, but it was not until 1618 that success was...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0393070093. There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had an eventful real career serving in both the French and then the Royal Navies. It was captured from the French in 1796 and took...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 465 p. This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word ‘piracy’ as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obscures a complex picture of Scottish maritime warfare....
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 285 p. Drawing on hundreds of eyewitness accounts and convoy veterans and personal research in the Russian naval archives in Murmansk, the author reconstructs the history of the polar convoys. Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin's Soviet...
Ian Allan, 1986. — 128 p. — ISBM: 978-0711015739 Historical notes and data of the battleships and battlecruiser classes, from Warrior, comleted in 1861, to Vanguard which was scrapped in 1960.
Maritime Books, 1987. — 100 p. — ISBM: 0907771343 HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 161 p. A familiar sight on the Thames at London Bridge, HMS Belfast is a Royal Navy light cruiser, launched in March 1938. Belfast was part of the British naval blockade against Germany and from November 1942 escorted Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and assisted in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944 Belfast supported...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 108 p. — ISBN: 978-1904459361. This revised and updated guide to the ships, aircraft, and weapons of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels.