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| 3062 | Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. 3rd & Revised Edition. xix, 280p., illus. Glasgow: Hopwood, 1950.
A full history which gives brief details of the war service of all their ships. The previous edition was published in 1920. |
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| 3063 | BAKER, R. ed. British Warship Design in World War II. 224p., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 1983; London: Conway, 1984. ISBN: 0851772846.
Immediately after the war, the wartime experience of ship designers was summarised in a series of papers in the Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects for 1947. These are reprinted in this volume. |
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| 3064 | BALISON, Howard J. Newport News Ships: Their History in Two World Wars. xv, 372p., illus., index. Newport News: Mariners' Museum, 1954.
The Newport News Shipbuilding Company's most famous ships were probably carriers like Yorktown and Essex. In World War II it did some repair work for the RN and some of the four-stackers it built joined the RN as Town Class destroyers under Lend-Lease. |
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| 3065 | BARNABY, K. C. 100 Years of Specialized Shipbuilding and Engineering. 263p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1964.
A centenary celebration of Thorneycroft's, one of the leading firms of naval builders and designers in the country. This fairly bland history devotes 30 pages to their wartime construction. |
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| 3066 | BORTHWICK, Alastair. Yarrow and Company Limited, the First Hundred Years 1865–1965. 135p., illus., index. Glasgow: Yarrow and Co. Ltd., 1965.
The war years are briefly covered in half a dozen pages. |
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| 3067 | BROWN, D. K. A Century of Naval Construction: The History of the Royal Corp of Naval Constructors 1883–1983. 384p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Conway, 1983. ISBN: 085177282X.
A mine of useful information, although only about 50 pages specifically concern WWII. An excellent history. |
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| 3068 | BROWN, D. K. ed. The Design and Construction of British Warships 1939–1945: The Official Record. 3 vols., illus., index. London: Conway, 1995–6. ISBN: 1557501602 (V.1); 1557501610 (V.2); 1557501629 (V.3).
The volumes cover respectively major surface vessels from destroyers upward; the second submarines, escorts, and coastal forces and the third amphibious warfare vessels and auxiliaries. The work consists of a series of immediately post-war essays by the staff of the Directorate of Naval Construction, recording their work and experience. These have been annotated by an excellent editor. |
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| 3069 | BURNS, K. V. Devonport Built Warships since 1860. 112p., illus., index. Duloe: Maritime Books, 1981. ISBN: 0950632376.
A record of all the ships built by the naval dockyard in this period with leading details and brief histories of each vessel. |
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| 3070 | CARVEL, John L. Stephen of Linthouse: A Record of Two Hundred Years of Shipbuilding 1750–1950. 211p., illus., index. Glasgow: Alexander Stephens, [1951].
About 10 pages on the wartime efforts of the yard and some of its products. |
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| 3071 | CHAMPNESS, E. L. Six Years' Hard Labour: A Record of 1939–45. 93p., illus. Hebburn-on-Tyne: Palmers Hebburn Company Ltd., [1946].
The managing director of the firm records the work of the repair yard in some detail. |
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| 3072 | CLARKE, J. F. Power on Land and Sea: 160 Years of Industrial Enterprise on Tyneside. A History of R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd., Engineers and Shipbuilders. [8], 118p., illus. [Newcastle: Hawthorn Leslie], 1980. ISBN: 0950642118.
A history based on company records with half a dozen pages on the yard in wartime and a list of ships built. |
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| 3073 | CORPORATION OF LLOYD'S. Lloyd's Index of War-Built Vessels, 1940 to 1945. 2nd ed. 68p. London: Corporation of Lloyd's, 1967.
Lists merchant vessels over 1,000 tons gross, built during the war and still in existence, with notes on their career. An incomplete first edition was published in 1950. |
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| 3074 | DANCER, Alec. A Century of Barrow Built Boats1901-2001. [ii], 58p., illus. Barrow-in-Furness:[author, 2001].
Published to mark the centenary of the submarine service, this is a class list of the 70% of British submarines built at Barrow. Although accurate this is a weak and limited work. |
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| 3075 | DU CANE, Peter. An Engineer of Sorts. 184p., illus., index. Lymington: Nautical, 1971. ISBN: 0245507493.
Du Cane was research Director of Vospers and associated with the development of the wartime MTBs. He had a brief spell in the FAA. |
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| 3076 | GILBERT, Martin T. Who Won the Battle of the Atlantic? 85p., illus. London: Athena, 2007. ISBN: 1847480896.
A section on technological development is followed by an autobiographical account of his work as an apprentice electrician mainly at Pickersgill's Yard on Wearside. |
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| 3077 | GOODEY, Charles. The First Hundred Years: The Story of Richards Shipbuilders. 111p., illus. Ipswich: Boydell Press, 1976. ISBN: 0851150721.
A small shipyard whose wartime work consisted mainly of building motor minesweepers. This is covered in a few pages. Note the 1956 history of the company by L. E. Richards. |
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| 3078 | GOODMAN, Syd & BALLANTYNE, Iain. Plymouth Warships 1900-1950. 159p., illus., index. Tiverton: Halsgrove, 1998. ISBN: 1874448825.
A straightforward captioned photographic record. The pictures were largely taken by the Goodman family and record warships which visited the port. |
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| 3079 | GRANT, Allan. Steel & Ships: The History of John Brown's. 97p., illus. London: Joseph, 1950
War work at Clydebank is covered in five pages. |
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| 3080 | GREAT BRITAIN. Ministry of Information. Build the Ships. 64p., illus. London: HMSO, [1945].
The shipyards in wartime. Text written by V. S. Pritchett. |
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| 3081 | HILL, John C. G. Shipshape and Bristol Fashion. x, 110p., illus. Liverpool: Journal of Commerce, 1952.
The linked story of the Bristol City Line and the shipyard of Charles Hill & Sons. The war is covered in a dozen pages, with tales of shipping losses and building successes. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1983. |
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