Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 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...
Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This new book, beautifully illustrated with a magnificent collection of over 300 photographs, covers the development of a much-loved type of vessel, the 'classic' cross channel or short sea passenger ferry often described as a liner in miniature.
From the mid-19th century paddle ferries slowly...
River Gunboats
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honourable East India Company's gunboat _Diana_ went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual...
Warships of the Great War Era
A History in Ship Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they...
Clydebank Battlecruisers
Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design, this represents every step in the evolution...
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty
The Last Naval Hero - An Intimate Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Admiral Beatty was beyond doubt the best known fighting Admiral, perhaps the best known military leader, of the First World War. His conduct at Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, and later at Jutland, caught the public imagination, while his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet in taking into...
Thunderer
Building a Model Dreadnought
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
HMS Thunderer was the third Orion class battleship, one of the Super Dreadnoughts built to counter German naval expansion, and was laid down one hundred years ago in April 1910. At 22,200 tons she was the largest ship ever built on the Thames but she was to be responsible for the bankruptcy of her...
by Roger Chesneau
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
• Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship
• Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations
• Focuses on very popular modelling subjects which are represented by a wide selection of kits
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about...
That Hamilton Woman
Emma and Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain’s naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the...
Bayly's War
The Battle for the Western Approaches in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Bayly’s War is the story of the Royal Navy’s Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War One.
Britain was particularly vulnerable to the disruption of trade in the Western Approaches through which food and munitions (and later soldiers) from North...
No Ordinary War
The Eventful Career of U-604
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
U-604 was a standard Type VIIC of which over 600 were built, and at first glance her six war patrols might seem typical - but they were far from ordinary.
Using the official war diary and the eyewitness testimony of survivors this book weaves a detailed but vivid tapestry of life and action...
by P G Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The daring raid on the Medway in June 1667, when the Dutch navigated the treacherous shoals and sandbanks of the Thames estuary and the Medway in order to attack King Charles's ships laid up below Chatham, was one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history, and a serious blow to the pride of...
Frank McClean
The Godfather to British Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
During aviation’s pioneering years Francis Kennedy McClean used his vast inherited wealth to help the now famous Short Brothers company become established as one of Britain’s greatest aircraft manufacturers and, in doing so, he helped the Royal Navy’s first pilots into the air. In effect, he...
The Secret Capture
U-110 and the Enigma Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
For fifteen years after the end of the war all official Admiralty records showed the German submarine U 110 as sunk on 9 May 1941 by the surface escorts of convoy OB.318. As this book was the first to reveal, this was a deliberate deception, as the U-boat was actually captured and its contents fully...