Conway Maritime Press
Conway Maritime Press produce a range of factual books depicting the history of the Royal Navy including detailed accounts of ships and vessels under the command of various naval commanders and admirals such as Horaito Nelson. Also Conway Maritime Press produce an extremely useful and precise range of books aimed at aiding ship builders in constructing their models.
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Conway Maritime Press
The History of the Ship (paperback)
The ship is one of the greatest accomplishments of the human race. That we have used it to travel to new and mysterious lands, vanquish our enemies and trade for exotic goods in...
Allied Coastal Forces of WWII Vol. 1
Volume 1 covers all the designs of the Fairmile Marine Company (including those craft built and equipped in Canada), together with the 72ft Harbour Defence Motor Launch and t...
The Global Schooner
The book puts forward a new explanation, based on primary source material, of the origins of the schooner tracing the term and its practical application back to England in 16...
The History of the Ship (hardback)
The ship is one of the greatest accomplishments of the human race. That we have used it to travel to new and mysterious lands, vanquish our enemies and trade for exotic goods...
The Naval History Of Great Britain Vol. 1
The first volume examines naval events at Toulon in 1793 where Sir Sidney Smith burnt half of the French Mediterranean Fleet and Howe’s victory over French forces at th...
The Naval History of Great Britain Vol. 2
The second volume covers the important years of 1797-1799. In 1797 the British Mediterranean fleet had been forced to withdraw by the Spanish declaration of war. Admiral John...
The Naval History of Great Britain Vol. 4
The fourth volume covers the famous years of 1805-1807. 1805 remains the most famous of years for the Royal Navy. The narrative in this volume provides a detailed and in dept...
Miniature Merchant Ships
Building 1/1200 scale waterline ship models is a fascinating branch of ship modeling with the advantage that a varied collection of models demonstrating changes and progress ...
Every Man Will Do His Duty (hardback)
Every Man Will Do His Duty presents the voices of the officers and seamen who fought and lived at sea during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Here are the true-life sto...
Nelson: The Immortal Memory (Hardback)
Two of Britain's finest naval historians create here an immensely human portrait of Nelson. They also evoke what it was like to sail the seas in Nelson's day, and to ...
The Nelson Almanac
Includes 12 essays by leading scholars of the Nelson period including Tom Pocock and Stephen Howarth. Complete with extensive colour and black&white illustrations. The Ne...
The Age of Sail Volume I
From the eclipse of the galley in the sixteenth century until the widespread introduction of steam propulsion in the mid-nineteenth century, the sailing warship was the major...
Lost Warships
Lost warships is a 3000 year visit to the great, yet under-studied, graveyard, memorial and museum on the ocean's floor, and the warships that lie there. Lavishly illustr...
Atlantic Kingdom
America's contest with Cunard in the age of sail and steam. Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopol...
Jack Aubrey Commands
An historical companion to the naval world of Patrick O'Brian. Written by one of the foremost historians of Nelson's navy and the age of sail, Jack Aubrey Commands re...
Royal Yacht Britannia: The Official History
This Official History of the Royal Yacht, written by Richard Johnstone-Bryden, has the full unprecedented support of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Duke of Edinburgh. As part ...
Every Man Will Do His Duty (paperback)
Every Man Will Do His Duty presents the voices of the officers and seamen who fought and lived at sea during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Here are the true-life sto...
Anatomy of the Ship: USS Constitution
The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was ...
Anatomy of the Ship: The 32-gun Frigate Essex
On the successful completion of the War of Independence, the American navy was disbanded, and it was not until the late 1790s that a regular naval force was reconstituted. Pr...
Anatomy of the Ship: Battleship Bismarck
The Bismarck is probably the most famous warship in the world. The German battleship, 45,000 tons, was completed in early 1941 and went on to sink the 'Mighty Hood', ...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Destroyer Campbeltown
The destroyer Campbeltown is most famous for her part in the commando raid on the St Nazaire drydock in 1942. Built as the USS Buchanan (DD131)- and later renamed Campbelton ...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Fairmile 'D'
The Fairmile Type D was designed to combat the known advantages of German S-boats (Schnellboote - but always called 'E-boats' by the Allies) over previous British coa...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Heavy Cruiser Takao
The Takao class of Japanese heavy cruisers was approved in the 1927–31 building programme, and the Takao was the first of four vessels launched between May 1930 and Apr...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Aircraft Carrier Victorio
The distinguished career of the carrier Victorious extended from World War II to 1967. A major refit during the 1950’s, saw her emerge as the Royal Navy’s most ad...
An Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy occupies a central position in the history of Britain's island nation. In Shakespeare's words, the sea is the country's 'moat defensive', a...
The Ships of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, remains one of the defining moments in naval history. The decisive nature of the engagement, the death of Nelson and the outpouring ...
The Battle of Trafalgar (Conway Compass Series)
In the 200th year after the battle of Trafalgar and Nelson's heroic death in battle, this volume in Conway's 'Compass Series' integrates an original narrative...
Gunpowder & Galleys
Gunpowder and Galleys was acclaimed on its first publication. The revised edition will update the text in the light of Professor Guilmartin’s researches over the last t...
The Island Nation
What does it mean to be an island people? How has our rich and complex relationship with the sea shaped our national psyche? This beautifully illustrated exploration of Brita...
The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt
"Geoff Hunt’s pictures, perfectly accurate in period and details, but very far from merely representational, are often suffused with a light reminiscent of Canalet...
Anatomy of the Ship: The 74-gun ship Bellona
An anatomy of the ship on one of the standard line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy of the time of Trafalgar. A complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the c...
Anatomy of the Ship: Captain Cook’s Endeavour
His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, was made eternally famous by Captain James Cook's first voyage of exploration in the South Pacific, 1768-1771. First published in 1995...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Cruiser Belfast
HMS Belfast was the largest British cruiser of the Second World War and saw distinguished service throughout the conflict, including playing a major part in the destruction of t...
Anatomy of the Ship: The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid
Featuring a full description of this Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier famous for their effectiveness and reliability as warships, Intrepid (CV11) was one of 24 such vessels...
Anatomy of the Ship: Battleship Yamato
With the greatest displacement, largest guns and heaviest armour, Yamato and her sister ship Musashi were the ultimate battleships of the Second World War. Containing over 600 p...
The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War
When this book was first published in 1979 it was immediately recognised as the standard work on the evolution of rigging, mast making and sail making. More than twenty years...
Eighteenth Century Rigs & Rigging
Eighteenth Century Rigs and Rigging is the first truly comprehensive work in its field. Coverage includes all major ship types of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Midd...
The Construction & Fitting of the Sailing Man Of W
This book has been written as a companion volume to James Lees' Masting and Rigging and does for the hull and its fittings what that book did for spars and rigging. This ...
Nelsons Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation
The most successful Conway Maritime Press title, this book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. A...
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