Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
Fighters Over the Fleet
Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare, the Royal Navy, the US Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts...
by Poul Grooss
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
From the shelling of the fort at Westerplatte, on the Polish coast, on 1 September 1939, to the loss of thousands of German refugees at sea in May 1945, the Baltic witnessed continuous and ferocious fighting throughout the Second World War. In this new book the author chronicles the naval warfare...
Black Flag
The Surrender of Germany's U-Boat Forces on Land and at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to France, where cadres of U-boat men fought on in ports...
by Les Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
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...
The Real Jim Hawkins
Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy.
This...
Night Action
MTB Flotilla at War
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2008
This memoir is Peter Dickens' account of his experiences as the young commander of the 21st MTB Flotilla during 1942-43, mainly in the North Sea and the Channel. In all the annals of the war at sea, comparatively little has been written about the role of the torpedo boat, and yet these small and vulnerable...
Passage to the World
The Emigrant Experience 1807-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From the early nineteenth century onwards, literally millions of people left their homes to cross the seas. Some, like the convicts transported to Australia, had no choice; others like the indentured Indian and Chinese labourers had almost no alternative; but the vast majority were driven to escape...
The Warship Mary Rose
The Life and Times of King Henry VII's Flagship
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.
Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol...
Before the Ironclad
Warship Design and Development 1815-1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In the massive revolution that affected warship design between Waterloo and the Warrior, the Royal Navy was traditionally depicted as fiercely resisting every change until it was almost too late, but these old assumptions were first challenged in this authoritative history of the transition from sail...
Cargo Liners
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
For 100 years, between 1850 and 1950, the cargo liner grew to dominate the world’s trade routes, providing regular services that merchants, shippers and importers could rely on; they carried much of the world’s higher value manufactured goods and raw materials and their services spread to most...
by Nick Robins
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the Allied strategy in both wars was a massive programme of merchant shipbuilding. This need gave rise to...
Coasters
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
John Masefield’s ‘dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, butting through the Channel in the mad March days’ has become a ship type of universal appeal, both for its simple, functional beauty and its faithful toil before the advent of universal road haulage.
In this new book...
Ships and Shipbuilders
Pioneers of Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators...
Tramp Ships
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence...