Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books

Naval Firepower

Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a 'firing solution' was a significant problem made all the...
by Mark Barton, John McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

This new publication is intended to bring together a mass of research dealing with all aspects of British naval swords. Unlike the much sought after Swords of Sea Service by May and Annis, this work offers a far broader coverage and, for the first time, the complete story of swords and swordsmanship...

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863

Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

by Rif Winfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014

The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the...

French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861

Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

by Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

In 1786 the French Navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, having frequently outfought or outmanoeuvred the Royal Navy in battle, and made a major contribution to American independence. The reputation of its ship design and fighting skills never stood higher,...

The Fourth Force

The Untold Story of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Since 1945

by Geoff Puddefoot
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010

Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary was originally a logistic support organization, part of the Navy proper but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. Just over a century later it has evolved beyond...

Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714

Design, Construction, Careers & fates

by James Bander
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

For most of the seventeenth century the Netherlands constituted the most important maritime power in the world, with by far the largest merchant fleet and a dominance in seaborne trade that other countries feared and envied. Born out of an 80-year struggle against Spain for independence, the Dutch...
by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons – the mine and torpedo – as well as the first signs of the future potency of air power. Between 1914 and 1918 weapons development was both rapid and complex, so this book...
by Steve Wiper
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or...

Dreadnought to Daring

100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in The Naval Review

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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

Dreadnought to Daring is an absorbing and highly readable summary of a century of naval thinking which has been written by some of the leading lights in contemporary naval history. Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navy’s brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review has never been subject...
by Peter Hore
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called Nelsons Navy. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies...
by Peter Hore
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called Nelson's navy. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies...
by John Jordan, Robert Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009

The battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu classes were the most radical and influential designs of the interwar period, and were coveted by the British, the Germans and the Italians following the Armistice of June 1940. After an extensive refit in the USA, Richelieu went on to serve alongside...
by Steve Backer, Robert Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their...
by Steve Wiper
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over...
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