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Largely derived from the main series of technical documents of the British Royal Navy and, to a lesser extent, the records of Thornycroft's, a naval construction firm, this book by Lyon (formerly of the National Maritime Museum) describes the developments of the Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Organizing the material by type of destroyer, he combines pictorial presentation of plans with textual description of destroyer development that consists primarily of quotes from other documents. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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DAVID LYON spent his working life at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, here for over twenty years he looked after the huge ships’ plans collection before becoming Curator of Naval Ordnance, then Head of Enquiries and finally Chief of Research of the Maritime Information Centre. He served in the Royal Navy Reserve and having qualified as a diving officer, was instrumental in the development of underwater archaeology in Britain, diving on the Mary Rose amongst others. He is a member of the Council of the Society for Nautical Research and of the Nautical Museums Trust. He has written and lectured extensively both in Britain and abroad anis many publications include The Sailing Navy List, The Denny List, Steam, Steel and Torpedoes, and Sea Battles in Close-up: The Nelson Era. He has first-hand experience of all manner of craft and now shares with his wife a double-ended yole, which they sail in the Thames estuary.
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