Deze serie biedt uitgebreide verkenningen van het ontwerp en de constructie van individuele schepen. Elk deel beschrijft nauwgezet een specifiek schip, waarbij de technische details en historische betekenis worden onthuld. Het spreekt zowel marine-enthousiastelingen als geschiedenisliefhebbers aan en biedt een diepe duik in maritieme engineering en geschiedenis. Lezers zullen de diepgang en precisie waarderen die aan elk onderwerp wordt besteed.
The Anatomy of the Ship series provides documentation of individual ships and ship types, accompanied by line drawings with descriptive keys, technical details and a record of the ship's service history. The frigate Diana, built in 1793, is typical of many that fought in the Napoleonic Wars.
The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived. Launched in 1760 during the Seven Years War, she belonged to the first truly successful class of British 74-gun ships, a design by Thomas Slade that was built in large numbers over more than twenty years. Bellona herself served with distinction over 54 years, fought in four wars and was not broken up until 1814. As part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this book provides the finest documentation of the Bellona , with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history.
The Flower class corvette was one of the most famous and numerous of all escort vessels, and the corvette Agassiz is the most representative of the Canadian Flowers, which were thrown into the thick of the bitter Atlantic convoy battles of 1941–2. Derived from a whalecatcher hull design, and intended as a cheap coastal escort that could be built by non-specialist yards, the Flowers were the only class available in large numbers when the submarine war flared up in earnest in 1941. As a result they were used on rigorous ocean convoy duties for which they were barely adequate, and their crews suffered greatly in one of the harshest arenas of the second world war.As part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this book provides the finest documentation of the Agassiz, with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history. This is a superb description of the ship and her career.