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Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Conway
ISBN 13 : 9781844860067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat written by John Lambert and published by Conway. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairmile Type D was designed to combat the known advantages of German S-boats (Schnellboote - but always called 'E-boats' by the Allies) over previous British coastal craft designs. Designed for 31 knots at 80 tons' displacement, the Fairmile Ds were the most potent and heavily-armed coastal forces type of any navy. They fulfilled various roles, from the original MTB/MGB role to anti-submarine and mine operations. This book is the most comprehensive body of information available anywhere in a single volume on this important type. This book provides the finest documentation of these uniquely fast small warships ever produced, through a complete set of superbly executed line drawings offering enthusiasts a novel insight into ship design and construction. In addition, it includes a service and design history and a pictorial section emphasising close-up and on-board photographs.

The Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat written by John Lambert and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1985 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dog Boats at War

Author : Leonard C Reynolds
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499947
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Dog Boats at War written by Leonard C Reynolds and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built of plywood and measuring 115 feet long, powered by four supercharged petrol engines and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons, the 'D' Class Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) and Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) were better known as Dog Boats and played havoc with enemy shipping in home and foreign waters. During three years of war they engaged the enemy on more than 350 occasions, sinking and damaging many ships. Dog Boats at War is the authoritative account of operations by the Royal Navy's 'D' Class MGBs and MTBs in the Second World War in Home, Mediterranean and Norwegian waters. As well as drawing on official records - both British and German - the author has contacted several hundred Dog Boat veterans whose eye witness accounts add drama to the unfolding story.

British Motor Gun Boat 1939–45

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472803191
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book British Motor Gun Boat 1939–45 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motor Gun Boats were the “Spitfires of the Seas” of the Royal Navy. Bristling with small-calibre guns and machine guns, they served in a variety of roles during the War. In the early war period they battled against German E-boats in the English Channel, then went on the offensive, searching the enemy shore for targets of opportunity. At other times, they ran support for Motor Torpedo Boats and were used to deliver commandos on various raids. Naval Warfare expert, Angus Konstam, tells the story of these small, but destructive boats, beginning with their design and development and carrying through to their operational use in both the European and Mediterranean theatres of World War II.

Coastal Craft History

Author : Mark Smith (Writer of Coastal craft history)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993093425
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Craft History written by Mark Smith (Writer of Coastal craft history) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coastal Craft History

Author : Mark Smith (Writer of Coastal craft history)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993093418
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Craft History written by Mark Smith (Writer of Coastal craft history) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781526747556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Allied Coastal Forces of World War II written by John Lambert and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the war, and in every theatre. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and minesweepers, harbour defence vessels, light landing craft, RAF rescue boats and transports for agents and clandestine missions. Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognised classic work and first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively - in words, photographs and drawings - with the technical detail of all these boats. Design, construction and subsequent development are all covered, and the builders, construction lists, fates and the technical data are given for each type. Separate sections cover armament and equipment, sea-going qualities and habitability. This second volume covers sixteen Vosper MTB designs and the US 70ft, 77ft and 80ft ELCO designs. US-built Vosper designs supplied under lease-lend are also covered, while weapons systems and machinery are dealt with in detail. Some 700 finely detailed drawings were drawn by the authors for this second volume in their highly acclaimed two-volume work. AUTHORS: John Lambert spent nine years in the Royal Navy where he acquired his detailed technical knowledge of warships. His subsequent research on small warships and naval weaponry, combined with his remarkable technical drawing skills, led to the creation of a body of work some of which is displayed in this volume. He died in 2015. Al Ross II is the author of several books on small warships and since the 1980s has been producing a series of plans for modellers of small combatants of the Second World War and Vietnam eras. He lives in Bangor, Maine, USA. 150 b/w photographs, 700 line drawings, 12 colour camouflage schemes

Allied Coastal Forces of WWII, Volume 1

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Conway
ISBN 13 : 9780851775197
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Allied Coastal Forces of WWII, Volume 1 written by John Lambert and published by Conway. This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in this series detailing all the designs for Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gun Boats and Motor Launches that served the Allied Forces in the period 1939-45. It covers all the designs of the British Fairmile Marine Company (including those craft built and equipped in Canada), together with the 72ft Admiralty harbor Defence Motor Launch designs and the US Navy's 110ft submarine chaser. Separate sections deal with Coastal Forces armament and equipment in full, and appendices include further technical detail, production data, provisioning and typical service records.

Dog Boats at War

Author : Leonard C. Reynolds
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dog Boats at War written by Leonard C. Reynolds and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed to the teeth with heavy weapons, the Royal Navy's D class MGBs and MTBs played havoc with enemy convoys during World War II, engaging and sinking dozens of vessels. This account of the Dog Boats in action draws upon offical records and eye-witness testimony to examine their contribution to the defence of the Normandy landings assault areas, and their clandestine, special duty missions to pick up agents and RAF pilots passed back along the escape routes of the French Resistance.

Royal Navy Motor Gun Boat Owners' Workshop Manual

Author : Diggory Rose
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785211423
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Royal Navy Motor Gun Boat Owners' Workshop Manual by : Diggory Rose

Download or read book Royal Navy Motor Gun Boat Owners' Workshop Manual written by Diggory Rose and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the Royal Navy’s flotillas of small, fast and powerfully armed motor gun boats (MGBs) were looked upon as the ‘Spitfires of the Seas’. Operating from their harbour bases around the south and east coasts of England, RN Coastal Forces crews would set out under cover of darkness to look for trouble with German shipping in the Channel and the North Sea. The vicious close-quarter skirmishes that ensued were every bit as deadly as the aerial dogfights acted out at 30,000 ft by their RAF Spitfire contemporaries. Written by the curator of MGB 81, with contributions from other specialists involved with the boat, the Royal Navy Motor Gun Boat Owners' Workshop Manual is published in association with the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust and fully illustrated with archive photos, technical drawings and detailed photography of MGB 81.

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII

Author : Malcolm Wright
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848322720
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII written by Malcolm Wright and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this new book by maritime artist Mal Wright both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned ships of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth are depicted in detail, along with discussion on changes of armament and electronics that effected the outward appearance of each ship.Starting with destroyers from WW1 still in service during WW2, the book progressively covers ships below cruisers, class by class, to provide a detailed and easy-to-use guide to paint schemes in use. In some cases individual ships are shown in the several schemes they wore thus providing a source that covers various periods of service. With 740 full colour illustrations, all of named vessels, this book concentrates information into a single volume to provide a one-stop reference source, and, for the first time in a single volume, it covers not just the well-known ships, but also escort vessels, minesweepers, trawlers, coastal craft and auxiliaries in sequential format. Many schemes would be difficult for the reader to have found other than with the most intensive research so that historians, collectors, modelmakers and wargamers will find this unique reference source absolutely invaluable.

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume I

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 152674452X
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume I written by John Lambert and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the War, and in every theatre. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and minesweepers, harbour defence vessels, light landing craft, RAF rescue boats and transports for agents and clandestine missions.Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognised classic work and first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively in words, photographs and drawings with the technical detail of all these boats. Design, construction and subsequent development are all covered, and the builders, construction lists, fates and the technical data are given for each type. Separate sections cover armament and equipment, sea-going qualities and habitability.This first volume covers all the designs of the Fairmile Marine Company (including those craft built and equipped for Canada), together with the 72ft Harbour Defence Motor Launch and the US Navy 110ft subchaser.The authors, firmly established as the recognised authorities on small warships, unearthed a remarkable body of information now included in this major work, and their finely detailed drawings, redrawn form original builders plans, offer an unparalleled view of all these remarkable designs. The new editions of their work will be welcomed by naval enthusiasts and modellers alike.

The Submarine Alliance

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submarine Alliance written by John Lambert and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular ship-design series is praised for its superb drawings and full descriptions of each ship's design, construction, operational history, and much more.

Allied Torpedo Boats

Author : Les Brown
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848320604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Allied Torpedo Boats written by Les Brown and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and 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 and US PT-boats, including their fittings, sensors and weapons.

Battleship Dreadnought

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781472846105
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Battleship Dreadnought written by John Roberts and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the first 'all-big-gun' battleship and as such revolutionised battleship design for more than a generation. She was built at Portsmouth in 14 months, a record which has never been equalled, and when she was launched she was superior in both firepower and speed to anything then afloat. Perhaps even more radical than her design was the proposal to adopt Parsons turbines, which at the time had been hardly tested. Though she saw little action during her career, her influence was profound and she gave her name to a class of ship that dominated the high seas for more than a generation. 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.

Splinter Fleet

Author : Theodore R Treadwell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513646
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Splinter Fleet written by Theodore R Treadwell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.

Schnellbootwaffe: Adolf Hitler’s Guerrilla War at Sea: S-Boote 1939-45

Author : Hrvoje Spajic
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 139909176X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Schnellbootwaffe: Adolf Hitler’s Guerrilla War at Sea: S-Boote 1939-45 written by Hrvoje Spajic and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine. Young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would now take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels. Working with the naval engineers of Lürssen Shipyard, the Germans designed combat weapons that were never surpassed by their opponents. After the first series of Schnellboote were launched, constantly improved versions of these vessels would follow. The Schnellbootwaffe would achieve significant victories for the Kriegsmarine at the beginning of the war by using these vessels in high-level strategies, including a style of guerrilla warfare. The British often call German torpedo boats E-boats, and these fast vessels were a genuine threat not only to coastal trade, but also to the movement of Allied ships after D-Day. Indeed, Admiral Rudolf Petersen's flotillas remained combat-ready until the very end, even after the balance of power was in favour of the Allies. Allied air bombardment of German torpedo boat bases from 1944 onwards failed to destroy the offensive potential of the Schnellboote and their crews. The Allied disaster at Lyme Bay at the end of April 1944 shows how this guerrilla war at sea was still dangerous, even at this stage of the war. The Allied invasion plans were not yet known to the Germans, but Eisenhower learned a great deal from Lyme Bay and the Schnellbootwaffe was still potentially dangerous right until the end of the war. This book tells the fascinating story about these special people, whose pirate spirit and guerrilla style of naval combat is reminiscent of the ancient pirates and their own way of warfare.