10-24-2003, 12:14 PM | #1 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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My Nautical literature
About sailing ships and sailing boats:
The Last of the Windjammers Volumes One and Two. (by Basil Lubbock. A complete guide to all things about sailors and sailingships. Numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints) The History of the American Sailing Navy (by Howard Chapelle. Well-defined with numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints) American Sailing ships (by Howard Chapelle. Well-defined with numerous drawings, pictures and blue-prints) Sailing boats Around the World: the classic 1906 treatise (by Henry Coleman Folkard. A well-defined book with sections about ancient vessels and onwards about early 20th century sailing boats) Sailing boats of the World: All the classes. About the Royal Navy: Wooden Fighting ships of the Royal Navy (by E H H Archibald. Tells the story of wooden vessels from ancient history to the late 19th century) Metal Fighting ships of the Royal Navy (by E H H Archibald. Tells the story of metalled and metal vessels from mid-19th century to the present) Task Force: the inside story of the ships and heroes of the Royal Navy (by John Parker) The Royal Navy Handbook (A guide to the modern Royal Navy) About the German Navy of WWII: The German Navy Handbook: 1939 - 1945 (by Jak P Mallman-Showell. Tells the complete history of the German Navy from the time before the First World War until the Second World War.) Menace: The Life and death of the Tirpitz (by Ludovic Kennedy. A fascinating expose of shipboard life and the Atlantic Campaign.) Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismark (by Ludovic Kennedy. Tells the story of the break-out of the German Navy's fastest battleship and the Royal Navy's vengeful chase of it after the sinking of the Hood.) Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 10-24-2003 at 03:02 PM. |
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