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A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914 - 1918
Ian Johnston
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Description for A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914 - 1918
Hardcover. An album of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished. Showcasing the work of a major shipbuilder during the Great War. A companion to the highly successful Clydebank Battlecruisers. Num Pages: 192 pages, 200 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JJF; AJC; HBWN; JWMV2; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels - major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ships. This makes the yard a particularly good exemplar of the wartime shipbuilding effort. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and ... Read more
Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels - major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ships. This makes the yard a particularly good exemplar of the wartime shipbuilding effort. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seaforth Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1094g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848322165
SKU
V9781848322165
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Ian Johnston
IAN JOHNSTON was brought up in a shipbuilding family, although his own career was in graphic design. A lifetime's interest in ships and shipbuilding has borne fruit in a number of publications, most recently Clydebank Battlecruisers, in the same series as this book, and The Battleship Builders, co-authored with Ian Buxton.
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