Royal Navy Submarine: 1945 to 1973 ('A' class - HMS Alliance) Owners' Workshop Manual

[Onkel Neal]

Here's the good news: Royal Navy Submarine is better, sometimes substantially so, than the U-boat manual, in pretty much every way. Peter Goodwin is a former Royal Navy submariner and acclaimed naval historian, and having written a Haynes manual on the HMS Victory in 2012, delivers the goods this time around. This book feels like a genuine apology to this submarine geek and Haynes fanboy. Although it contains brief sections covering the development of Britain's submarine fleet, Alliance's operational history, and what it was like to live and work aboard, the bulk of this book is a straight-up technical reference.

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[Jeffg]

They need to do a book on the American fleet boat.

Jeffg

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by Jeffg

They need to do a book on the American fleet boat.

Jeffg

Well, Haynes has books on the Mary Rose and Dreadnought coming out in the near future. I wouldn't be shocked if a Gato/Balao Workshop Manual is published in the next few years.

There's so much freely available material on these boats online, it would be pretty cool if a bunch of folks from Subsim got together and did an "unofficial" Fleet Boat Workshop Manual.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice job here

[Subnuts]

Just noticed that Haynes has published some preview pics on their website for their upcoming HMS Dreadnought manual. Not really impressed. A photo of the stern was described as show the stem and forecastle, the ship is described as having two boiler rooms and one engine room (there was actually three boiler rooms and two engine rooms), and the dynamo rooms are described as being "above the boiler rooms" (they were actually abreast the working spaces for A and Y turrets).

Haynes can be frustrating. Their good books are really good. But their mediocre books are incredibly sloppy and lacking in real substance. I might buy the Dreadnought manual for the pretty pictures, but I'll wait for the price to go down.

[Subnuts]

Hate to be a shameless bumper, but I just stumbled across this in a catalog for upcoming Haynes titles:



Jonathan Gates' Haynes "manual" on the Type 45 was a pretty good and surprisingly in-depth, so with any luck, this won't just be rehashed manufacturer's publicity.