Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
by Paul Malmassari
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The military was quick to see the advantages of railways in warfare, whether for the rapid deployment of men or the movement of heavy equipment like artillery. From here it was a short step to making the train a potent weapon in its own right a mobile fort or a battleship on rails. Armed and armored,...
X.1
The Royal Navy's Mystery Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The ‘X’ stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives – the world’s largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs...
by Barry Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this...
by Philip Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This new shipmodeller's manual explains in graphic manner how to build a small 1/16th scale model of the American privateer schooner Prince de Neufchatel. She was one of a new class of large, fast and seaworthy schooners that first made their appearance during the war of 1812. She had a short but...
by Gary Staff
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally 'armoured cruiser', the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the...
Mussolini’s Navy
A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
This book is a complete guide to the Regia Marina, the navy with which Italy fought the Second World War. Starting with the historical background, it describes how the navy developed, how it was organised, the facilities that supported it, and the operations it conducted both before and after the...
Torpedo
The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel – and by extension a small, minor navy – to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The
German Capital Ships of the Second World War
The Ultimate Photograph Album
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Few warship types have had as much written about them as the Kriegsmarine s capital ships Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck and Tirpitz continue to generate intense interest among warship enthusiasts, despite the fact that no new source of information has been...
Fighting the Great War at Sea
Strategy, Tactic and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war – even the inevitability of British participation – arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about...
Pirate Nation
Elizabeth I and her Royal Sea Rovers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was decidedly sordid. Elizabeth's policy of seizing foreign assets made her popular at home but drew her into a public/private partnership with pirates who preyed on the...
by J D Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Between 1939 and 1945 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm grew from a small force into a powerful strategic weapon. British carrier-based aircraft fought throughout the world and David Brown here describes their activities in the Home, Mediterranean, Eastern and British Pacific Fleets, together with Forces...
Very Special Ships
Abdiel Class Fast Minelayers of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. They operated not only as offensive minelayers – dashing into enemy waters under cover of darkness – but in many...
Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful, and at times in the eighteenth...
Ship Decoration
1630-1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work – figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design – carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and the most prestigious merchant ships, the East...