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Jimbuna · 12-23-11, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Needless to say, it's looking like a good Christmas, which is something you don't usually hear from someone who lives alone and hardly ever sees anybody.

Well invest in a web cam and I'll reciprocate

Sailor Steve · 12-23-11, 01:23 PM

AND EVEN MORE FUN!

I've long been a collector of naval reference books, having most of Conway's and Jane's, and a host of others besides. One of my longtime favorites has been Conway's Warship series. I have some of the original quarterly magazines, but by far the best way to get them is in the annual compilation books. I have about half of them, but some have always been quite expensive. Last week, however, I found a copy of Volume IV for just $30 USD, and it came in the mail today! WOOHOO!

This volume comprises Quarterly issues #13-16, and has articles on the development of radar in the Royal Navy (1935-1945), US Flight-Deck Cruiser designs, with illustrations by the great John Roberts; The Design and Development Of The Battleship Dreadnought, by D K Brown (I already have Roberts' Anatomy Of The Ship volume on Dreadnought, but every little bit helps); The Design Of the 1876 armoured cruiser HMS Inflexible, also by Brown; and most importantly a series of articles on the pre-Dreadnought Royal Soveriegn class battleships of 1889, by R A Burt himself! I've read his book on battleships from 1889-1905 in the library, but to buy a copy is hideously expensive. This will do in a pinch, though, as Warship and the US Warship International issues do have articles on other pre-dreads. Of course the book also has a large number of other articles. These are just the ones that interest me at the moment.

Needless to say I'm looking through it right now.

Jimbuna · 12-23-11, 01:52 PM

I've E versions of Janes Fighting ships years 38, 40 and 42 if your interested.

Sailor Steve · 12-23-11, 02:55 PM

I just checked. I have those as well, but thanks.

I'm hoping to find copies of the early ones someday.

12-23-11, 01:23 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	AND EVEN MORE FUN! I've long been a collector of naval reference books, having most of Conway's and Jane's, and a host of others besides. One of my longtime favorites has been Conway's Warship series. I have some of the original quarterly magazines, but by far the best way to get them is in the annual compilation books. I have about half of them, but some have always been quite expensive. Last week, however, I found a copy of Volume IV for just $30 USD, and it came in the mail today! WOOHOO! This volume comprises Quarterly issues #13-16, and has articles on the development of radar in the Royal Navy (1935-1945), US Flight-Deck Cruiser designs, with illustrations by the great John Roberts; The Design and Development Of The Battleship Dreadnought, by D K Brown (I already have Roberts' Anatomy Of The Ship volume on Dreadnought, but every little bit helps); The Design Of the 1876 armoured cruiser HMS Inflexible, also by Brown; and most importantly a series of articles on the pre-Dreadnought Royal Soveriegn class battleships of 1889, by R A Burt himself! I've read his book on battleships from 1889-1905 in the library, but to buy a copy is hideously expensive. This will do in a pinch, though, as Warship and the US Warship International issues do have articles on other pre-dreads. Of course the book also has a large number of other articles. These are just the ones that interest me at the moment. Needless to say I'm looking through it right now. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-23-11, 01:52 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,679 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I've E versions of Janes Fighting ships years 38, 40 and 42 if your interested. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-23-11, 02:55 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I just checked. I have those as well, but thanks. I'm hoping to find copies of the early ones someday. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo