The Royal Navy in Focus 1940-49 (Repost)
M. Critchley - The Royal Navy in Focus 1940-1949
Maritime Books | 1984 | ISBN: 0907771114 | English | 180 pages | PDF | 100.85 MB
Maritime Books | 1984 | ISBN: 0907771114 | English | 180 pages | PDF | 100.85 MB
If you want a collection of good photos of famous warships of the Royal Navy, this is for you; provided you don't care that they are all broadside on photos with the crew on deck. All these photos were taken as ships came into Portsmouth harbours, guns trained fore and aft with the crew on parade. The two to four lines of text tell you when it was bulit, when it was scrapped and the absolute bare minimum of anything else. The ships are in alphabetical order, not by class and include everything from torpedo boats to battleships.