Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
Invading America
The English Assault on the New World 1497-1630
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Within a generation of Columbus’s first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in central and south America many times the size of the home country. In stark contrast, after a century of struggle, and numerous disasters, English colonising efforts further north had succeeded in settling...
Pilot Cutters Under Sail
Pilots and Pilotage in Britain and Northern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The pilot cutters that operated around the coasts of northern Europe until the First World War were amongst the most seaworthy and beautiful craft of their size ever built, while the small number that have survived have inspired yacht designers, sailors and traditional craft enthusiasts over the last...
by William Morris Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Barnes was born in 1850 into a shipowning family in St Johns, Newfoundland, and first went to sea while still a schoolboy. His career seemed predestined, and by the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a Liverpool company, serving in their sailing ships working a triangular passage to St Johns, the Brazils...
The Sailing Frigate
A History in Ship Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
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...
Ready For Anything
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1905-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – unofficial motto: Ready for Anything – was originally a logistic support organisation, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbour craft. This book...
by Roger Chesneau
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
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...
A Shipyard at War
Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
A treasury of photos illustrating the work of the famed British shipbuilders of World War I.
Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co. built a vast range of vessels—major warships down to destroyers and submarines,...
Historical Dreadnoughts
Marder and Roskill: Writing and Fighting Naval History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century – the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these...
Atlantic Escorts
Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of US and Commonwealth forces, no...
Rebuilding the Royal Navy
Warship Design Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the author’s masterly account of development of Royal Navy’s ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers...
German Destroyers of World War II
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...
The Battle of the Narrow Seas
The History of Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
This is the story of the struggle for the control of the narrow seas of the Channel and the southern North Sea during the Second World War, told by Peter Scott who, as a MTB commander, saw action against the enemy throughout the course of the War.
The book is much more than a memoir and tells...
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII
Destroyers, Frigates, Sloops, Escorts, Minesweepers, Submarines, Coastal Forces and Auxiliaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this new book by maritime artist Mal...
Yangtze Showdown
China and the Ordeal of the HMS Amethyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The attack on the British frigate Amethyst on the Yangtze River by Chinese Communists in 1949 made world headlines. There was even more publicity when the ship made a dramatic escape after being trapped for 101 days. Eulogised by the British as an example of outstanding courage and fortitude, the...