Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
Master and Madman
The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Anthony Lockwood’s story is at the heart of the Georgian Navy though the man himself has never taken centre stage in its history. His naval career – described by himself as ‘twenty five years’ incessant peregrination’ – followed a somewhat erratic course but almost exactly spanned the...
Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic
German Naval Bases in France 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.
When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's
Miniature Ship Models
A History and Collector’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
This book is the first comprehensive history of how the 1:1200 scale and its 1:1250 continental equivalent became accepted as the modern standard for miniature ship models. The origins can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military...
Japanese Battleships
Fuso & Ise Classes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their...
Warships after Washington
The Development of Five Major Fleers 1922-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious...
French Cruisers
1922-1956
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership.
Part I...
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume I: Capital Ships 1895–1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the inter-war years Richard Perkins, a keen amateur photographer and avid collector, amassed one of the world’s largest personal collections of warship negatives. This he eventually bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum, where it still forms the core of the historic photos naval section....
Battlecruiser Repulse
Detailed in original Builders' Plans
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent...
Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...
Blockade
Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Blockade is the story of a long-running battle at sea, a battle for trade which both Britain and Germany had to win in order to survive; in particular, it tells the story of the Northern Barrage and the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
The Royal Navy’s role during WWI in denying Germany access to the sea,...
Poxed and Scurvied
The Story of Sickness & Health at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
When European sailors began to explore the rest of the world, the problem of keeping healthy on such long voyages became acute. Malnourishment and crowded conditions bred disease, but they also carried epidemics that decimated the indigenous populations they encountered – and brought back new diseases...
The Seasick Admiral
Nelson and the Health of the Navy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Horatio Nelson did not enjoy robust good health. From his childhood he was prone to many of the ailments so common in the eighteenth century, and after he joined the Navy he contracted fevers that further undermined his strength: he was even seasick whenever he first put to sea. Nevertheless, he saw...
The Last British Battleship
HMS Vanguard, 1946–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The ninth HMS Vanguard, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain’s battleships and was commissioned in 1946\. Her design evolved from of the King George V class and incorporated much of the fully developed...
by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be Iris and Mercury of 1875. They were the RN's first steel-built warships; were designed primarily to be steamed...