This design history of postwar British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors masterly account of development of Royal Navys ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume, the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval Constructor. This personal knowledge is augmented by George Moores indepth archival research on recently declassified material. The RN fleet in 1945 was enormous, but it was old and worn out, and Britain faced austerity. This book explores how designers responded to these challenges. It covers all the new construction and innovations, from aircraft carriers, through destroyers and frigates, to submarines (including nuclear and strategic), to minesweepers and small craft. Today, the Royal Navy is still a powerful and potent force with new and a number of innovative classes, both surface and subsurface, coming on stream. This book offers a fascinating insight into how the postwar fleet developed and adapted to the changing role of the Navy.

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Greenhill Books; Classification: TRLD; Weight: 836 g; Dimensions: 216 x 261 x 15

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