Battleship Duke of York
An Anatomy from Building to Breaking
$130.50
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2021
Summary
Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them. This book is an ambitious attempt to achieve the next best thing - a level of documentation in plans, photographs and words that portrays every aspect of the ship, albeit in two dimensions. Although the ship was chosen primarily because of the wealth of source material, Duke of York enjoyed a distinguished wartime career th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526777294 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1526777290 |
| Author: | Ian Buxton, Ian Johnston |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Seaforth Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.74kg |
| Dimensions: | 245mm x 289mm |
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Ian Buxton
IAN BUXTON is a naval architect with a lifetime’s experience in the shipbuilding industry and, latterly, in higher education at the University of Newcastle. He is perhaps best known for Big Gun Monitors. He also co-authored The Battleship Builders with IAN JOHNSTON, who is a well-known authority on Clydeside shipbuilding and the historian of both John Brown’s and Beardmore’s. His training as a graphic designer is to be seen in the superb choice of photographs in Clydebank Battlecruisers and A Shipyard at War.
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