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British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars - From The John Lambert Collection (Hardcover)
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British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars - From The John Lambert Collection (Hardcover)
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John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were
highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and
enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over
850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published.
These were acquired by Seaforth and this title is the fourth of a
planned series of albums on selected themes, reproducing complete
sheets at a large page size, with expert commentary and captioning.
Trawlers and drifters served in both world wars in their thousands;
and, in their tens of thousands, so did their fishermen crews.
Indeed, these humble craft were the most numerous vessel type used
by the Royal Navy in both wars, and were the answer to the
strategic or tactical conundrums posed by new technology of mines
and submarines. In his accompanying text, Steve Dunn examines the
ships themselves, their design, construction, arming, operations
and development; and he also relates how the trawlermen and
skippers, from the age-old fishing ports of Grimsby, Hull,
Lowestoft ad Great Yarmouth, Aberdeen and Fleetwood, came to be
part of the Royal Navy, and describes the roles they played, the
conditions they served under and the bravery they showed. The book
takes some 30 large sheets of drawings which John Lambert completed
of these vessels and divides into two sections. The first part
tells how the fishing fleet came to be an integral part of the
Royal Navy's pre-1914 plans and details some of the activities and
actions of trawlers and drifters at war in 1914-18\. And the second
investigates the armed fishing fleet in the struggle of 1939-45.
These wonderfully detailed drawings, which are backed by a
selection of photographs and a detailed complementary text, offer a
superb technical archive for enthusiasts and ship modellers, but
the book also tells a fascinating story of the extraordinary
contribution the vessels and their crews made to the defeat of
Germany in two world wars.
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