Author: V. S. Pritchett, Title: BUILD THE SHIPS.
Description: HMSOLondon, 1946, 1st edn., paperback original, 64pp, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (9 x 7 inches approx.), photo pictorial stapled card wrappers, one of the less common HMSO titles of this series, the official account of the British shipyards in wartime, covering the construction from keel and ribs to plates and rivets, the launch and fitting out, conversions to escort carriers, repairs after action, and the vast program of building landing craft, ills include before and after photos of an escort carrier converted from a tanker, ships under contruction and repair, etc., wrappers lightly rubbed with several short nicks to edges, some creasing, a little dusty, very good
Keywords: war ww2 home front navy shipbuilding hmso escort carrier merchant freighter lca landing craft vf45
Price: GBP 10.00 = appr. US$ 14.28 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41536
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