The Hunts Tapa blanda - 1987

World Ship Society, 1987. 108pp, photos, large fold-out plan of HMS Cattistock at rear. Minor signs of handling to covers. Hint of fading to spine otherwise all in very good condition.. First Edition. Original Card. Very Good.

English, J: 1987 WSS UK, softcover 108 pages + Folding-out designplan. History, design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of WWII. ISBN 0905617444 In very good condition

Cumbria, England: World Ship Society, 1987. First Edition, Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. Good. 108 pages. Includes illustrations, Dedication and publisher, Contents, Acknowledgments and Notes, and Genesis. Also includes Construction, Deployment, Analysis of Losses, Post War Service, Review of the Hunts, Ship Histories, List of Pendant Numbers, Endpiece, and Plan of a Type 1 Hunt, a large folding illustration of H. M.S. Cattistock at back cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War, particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys. They were named after British fox hunts. The modern Hunt-class GRP hulled mine countermeasure vessels maintain the Hunt names lineage in the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy had identified the need for two types of destroyer: larger vessels with heavy gun and torpedo armaments for… Leer más