1943 What Ship is That?

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with two folding plates with many in-text figures. A detailed introduction to the study of ship recognition, with chapters on the principal parts of merchant vessels, types of hull, bow, stems, and sterns, superstructure and upperworks, types of merchant vessels, types of warships, estimation of speed or age of ships, range of naval guns and torpedoes, and much more. Compiled, edited, and illustrated by E. C. Talbot-Booth, a British author and editor of Merchant Ships.