In 1913 the shipyards of Britain were responsible for building half of all the worlds ships; at the Clyde in Scotland at this time a new ship was launched every eighteen hours. For decades Britain was at the forefront of shipbuilding & the history & economy of towns such as Belfast Liverpool & the Clyde in Scotland were dominated by the industry with thousands employed in each. Shipbuilding in Britain" looks at the subjects long history from the Middle Ages through to the heyday of steam providing a comprehensive guide to a transformed industry." ...

The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly-detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites. This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more detailed drawings of the many different designs of British MTBs & US PT-boats including their fittings sensors & weapons.J OHN LAMBERT is a well-known draughtsman who provides detailed plans for modelmakers. He has also written widely on naval subjects mostly small warships. His collaborator in this volume is LES BROWN a lifelong modelmaker & a leading light in the Small Ships Group of the International Plastic Modellers Society.


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The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly-detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites.rnrn This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs from the Invincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915 & including the hybrid large light cruisers Courageous Glorious & Furious.


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During the Second World War the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the British armed forces but despite this extraordinary fact few people today are aware of it. In total 33 000 merchant seamen died while others were severely injured both physically & mentally. This book is an important volume attempting to dispel the ignorance & for the first time brings together a wealth of information concerning ship losses including such details as ships' names their captains the route they were lost on date & positions when lost loss of life & many other particulars. A former wartime Merchant Navy man himself Malcolm presents a compendium of shipping company losses that is staggering in scale. This work will be of great value to shipping enthusiasts & anyone interested in the war at sea. ...

Annie Proulxs highly acclaimed international bestseller & Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless hopeless hack journalist living & working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers
- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundl&. With the aunt & his delinquent daughters
- Bunny & Sunshine
- in tow Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life & possibility.


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This is a new addition to the See Inside" series about ships throughout history from Viking longboats to Spanish galleons ironclads to aircraft carriers. Lifting the flaps reveals the insides of ships from across the ages explaining in simple clear language what they were used for how the crew & passengers lived & how they sailed the oceans. It

Includes:: a gate-fold page of a huge aircraft carrier."

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The White Star Line was one of the most illustrious & controversial names in the history of passenger shipping. Its origins lay in Liverpool in the early 19th century chartering sailing ships to Australia but financial difficulties led to its takeover by Thomas Ismay in the 1860s. He was the founding father of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company the official name of the White Star Line. Despite a number of disasters with heavy loss of life the company grew quickly to dominate the North Atlantic route with famous ships such as Britannic & Germanic taking the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing several times in the late 19th century. At the turn of the century the company established an unrivaled standard of luxury in its new quartet of ships known as the Big Four which led to the construction of the Olympic Class which included Titanic. Despite the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 the Olympic had a long & successful career as the flagship of the White Star Line before the financial pressures of the Depression in the 1930s forced the merger of White Star with its rival Cunard. Ships of the White Star Line" is the fruit of years of research by maritime historian Richard de Kerbrech. In it he tells the story of the company through all 89 ships that served the shipping line each of which is illustrated with photographs along with detailed technical information & vivid accounts of voyages & incidents." ...

Using unpublished diaries Jim Perrin the acclaimed author of The Villain" & " Menlove" tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman & the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa & the Himalayas & found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle explored China with Spender & Auden journeyed down the Oxus River to its source & with no support opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin " The journeys of discovery undertaken through two decades by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins are unparallelled in the annals of mountain exploration." Jim Perrin writes of his source-
Material: " These unpublished diaries journals & extensive correspondence have not previously been used to present a portrait of the most productive friendship in the history of mountain exploration. What they reveal is in Shipton's phrase "a random harvest of delight" gathered by two uniquely bold & engaging characters from the great mountain ranges of the world during the golden era of their first western exploration. Between geographical excitement the nature of arduous travel in difficult & uncharted terrain throughout a lost epoch & the quirkiest & most stimulating of friendships the theme is a gift & one that has long been waiting for adequate treatment"."
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The Sussex coastline is thought to be the final resting place of over 4 000 ships with the areas around such fabled locations as Beachy Head & the Seven Sisters claiming many victims. This book sheds light on the intriguing stories behind the many wrecks off the Sussex coast caused by the dangerous cliffs shallow sandbanks & rapidly changing weather of the English Channel. A prolific writer on local history with a life-long interest in the sea author Wendy Hughes guides the reader through a wealth of tales from the sea off Sussex: from the Indiana whose cargo of citrus fruits washed ashore to feed hungry locals right up to the recent wreck of the Ice Prince which deposited many tons of timber onto Worthing beach in 2008. Illustrated with an impressive collection of images this book is sure to delight shipping enthusiasts & people with links to the Sussex area as well as those who are fascinated by the sea. ...

Its back to Goodmayes & the cast & characters of the very first Diary of a Chav (Trainers V Tiaras) for this 6th diary from Shiraz for whom life is about to get just a little bit darker... Shiraz is nearly 19 & has been living away from home for the past few months but is now back in Goodmayes Essex in her old cell-like bedroom plotting her future. Shes absolutely determined to get to college & get on her way to being a writer who ACTUALLY GETS PAID this time! She knows shes going to have to have a few words with Wesley about their future as hes planning all sorts himself & it isnt fair. Can she really contemplate a future without her lovely Wesley? But will he ever fit into her new life? Talk about a total quandary! & while shes mulling that one over her mum Diane drops a massive bombshell on the whole family & Shirazs life is suddenly turned upside down. Soon home in Goodmayes seems like the only place to be sorrounded by everyone shes grown up with people she loves to bits... Can Shiraz give up her dreams? Does she have to? Wait & see. ...