After I had written my recent blog post about by collection of naval books, I felt sure that I had not included all the books on my shelves ... and then I found some more! These included:
- The Osprey-like EL CRUCERO REINA REGENTE Y SU HUNDIMIENTO EL 9 DE MARZO DE 1896 by Joaquín Gil Hondubilla.
- William Eugene Warner's WARSHIPS OF THE CHINCHA ISLAND WARW (1864-1866): SPAIN'S LAST IMPERIAL ADVENTURE and WARSHIPS AT THE BATTLE OF RIACHUELO.
- Four of Louis Davison's WATERLINE SHIPMODELOR'S PLANBOOK SERIES, including 1. UNITED STATES DESTROYERS. 2. UNITED STATES DESTROYERS, 3. UNITED STATES BATTLESHIPS, and 4. UNITED STATES MONITORS AND CONFEDERATE RAMS.
- Ing. Prasky's 1:100th-scale MODELLBAU-UND TYPENPLAN of the Austro-Hungarian river monitors MAROS & LEITHA and TEMES & BODROG.
- Five issues of the WARSHIP PROFILE series, 23. HMS FURIOUS AIRCRAFT CARRIER 1917-1948 PART 1: THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS (by Commander C A Jenkins OBE RN), 35. HMS EAGLE (by David Brown), 36. UNITED STATES MONITORS OF THE CIVIL WAR (by Commander William J Cracknell USN), 39. USS MISSISSIPPI (BB23)/GREEK KILKIS (by Karl Lautenschläger), and 40. HER NETHERLANDS MAJESTY'S SHIP DE RUYTER (by F C van Oosten).
- THE CHINESE STEAM NAVY 1862-1945 by Richard N J Wright.
The plan books are particularly useful, and I can imagine some of the people who took part in Fletcher Pratt's naval wargame using the ones in Louis Davidson's books to build their 1:600th-scale waterline models.
Bob -
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same as I flipped through the book covers you have here: the plan books would have informed the construction of my own navies. I rather regret - well, kinda - not having really good diagrams to work from with some of my early 'Chubby Marine' efforts. Not that I'm complaining really hard.
Cheers,
Ion
Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteI found those plan books on the shelves of a second-hand military and transport bookshop ... and wish that I had been able to find more of them.
Oscar Parke's book about British battleships contains some excellent side and plan views that have just the right level of details for someone who wants to produce simple models. It sometimes comes up for sale on eBay ... but the prices some sellers charge are ridiculously high.
All the best,
Bob