The British Hawkins Class Cruisers

“Aidan Dodson’s thoroughly researched and engagingly written book combines technical and operational history, a persuasive analysis of the design, and the constant cycle of upgrades and additions, camouflage schemes and much else, recovering the roles of these largely forgotten ships, and the global roles they fulfilled in an era shaped by armed peace and total conflict.” – The Naval Review

“There are over two hundred black and white photographs that illustrate every phase of these ships varied lives, complemented by five colour, fold-out ‘as fitted’ drawings, ten maps and forty sets of black and white drawings. The latter were drawn by the author who also drew the ten coloured side views showing the different ships at various stages of their careers that appear just inside the covers.” – Australian Naval Institute

”[The]design and production are excellent, with numerous and informative diagrams and a wealth of black and white photographs, many previously unpublished. The author is to be congratulated for producing what is certainly the definitive study of these elegant warships.” – Warship 2026

Aidan Dodson has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, and combines the disparate academic fields of naval history and Egyptology, being honorary Professor of the latter subject. He holds a BA from the University of Liverpool, and an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and also worked as a civil servant in defence procurement for 25 years, acting as project leader for the former Falkland Islands patrol vessel, HMS Clyde. He is a regular contributor to the annual journal Warship, and author of some thirty books, the present volume being his sixth on a naval topic.

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