BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK
BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them.…
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BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK
Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them. Although the ship was chosen primarily because of the wealth of source material, Duke of York enjoyed a distinguished wartime career that included sinking the German battleship Scharnhorst in 1943 and serving as the flagship of the British Pacific Fleet in 1945, so is a fitting subject for such in-depth treatment.The core of the book is the reproduction in full color of a complete set of as-fitted plans of the ship, including many details and close-ups. This book is an ambitious attempt to achieve the next best thing--a level of documentation in plans, photographs and words that portrays every aspect of the ship, albeit in two dimensions.
These are complemented by an unusually thorough set drawn