Nautical Research Journal
he began writing articles for various publications, dealing with ships and naval equipment. He was a skilled draſt sman, and produced copious numbers of drawings, sketches, and diagrams, including the nearly one hundred excellent drawings contained in this volume.
T e drawings are fully annotated in crisp, clear, black and white, and leave little to the imagination. Any ship modeler worth his salt who has even the slightest interest in the weapons and escort ships of this era would benefi t enormously from this volume and could take his builds to the highest level by using the illustrations to add and correct the detail of his model.
Norman Friedman is a highly respected nautical writer with a long track record of excellent work, and his very detailed introduction includes some forty-seven black-and-white period photographs of typical escort vessels of this era, and many closeup detail images as well. Most of these photographs have never been seen by me in any volume anywhere else. Ship weathering patterns, rigging, details and paint schemes are nicely illustrated here, and make my thoughts of doing that 1:72-scale Revell corvette model in my stash a whole lot more palatable! Friedman also includes much information about the development of these vessels over the years, in a clear and concise chronological writing style devoid of fl owery or poetic language. Good, hard, nuts-and- bolts stuff that will educate the modeler about his subject and its history far more than a few generic photographs and paragraphs will do!
Escort vessels and their brave crews may not have been the “glory boys” of the war, but they did yeoman service, and so many made the ultimate sacrifi ce for freedom. T ey deserve to be remembered in excellently…and correctly…detailed scale models. T is book makes that task much more possible and gives the serious modeler a wealth of detailed information I have never before seen in just one volume. T is book would be invaluable to any World War II modeler of Royal Navy subjects, as much of this standard weaponry was mounted on larger ships as well.
T is is a large, super-detailed technical book, with a wealth of photographs, information, and technical drawings, which should be a must-have for anyone interested in Royal Navy escort vessels, or vessels in general, of World War II . I would love to see Volume 1! Very highly recommended!
Rick Cotton Katy, Texas
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Sea Fever Books Out of Print Nautical Books and Boating Magazines
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