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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5, 1937 at John Brown & Company Limited, Shipbuilding & Engineering Works in Clydebank, Scotland. She was commissioned four and a half years later, on November 4, 1941. HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5, 1937 at John Brown & Company Limited, Shipbuilding & Engineering Works in Clydebank, Scotland. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: New. HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5, 1937 at John Brown and Company Limited, Shipbuilding and Engineering Works in Clydebank, Scotland. She was commissioned four and a half years later, on November 4, 1941.32 pages.drawings sheets.color profiles.4 double A2 sheet with colour scheme.Format (sizes): (210x297 mm).booklet binding.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Moskva gained its fame thanks to the spectacular sinking which took place during the hostilities during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The Russian missile cruiser Moskva, until 1995 called Slava, was the first unit of a very interesting type of ship of the project 1164, characterized by, inter alia, 16 anti-ship missile launchers set inclined in the bow section. Project 1164 missile cruisers, which, apart from Moskva, also include Varyag (ex-Red Ukraine), Marshal Ustinov (ex-Admiral Lobov) and Ukraine (ex-Komsomolets, ex-Fleet Admiral Lobov), when they entered service, were considered to be among the best in their class. They had enormous firepower, and thanks to their technologically advanced missiles, they were called aircraft carrier killers, due to their primary purpose, which was to destroy American aircraft carriers. Moskva gained its fame thanks to the spectacular sinking which took place during the hostilities during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. After she fired on Snake Island on February 24, whose personnel refused to lay down their arms, on April 13, 2022, around 19.00 she was hit by two anti-ship missiles. At that time, approximately 60 nautical miles south of Odessa, the cruiser was badly damaged. A fire broke out and ammunition exploded. Explores in detail the Moskva, the guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy and flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The cruiser was deployed in military conflicts in Georgia (2008), Crimea (2014), and Syria (2015), and was sunk in April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The American battleship USS Massachusetts is one of the best known units of its class during the world war two. It was built at Fore River (Quincy) Shipyard in Massachusetts in 19391942 period and was one of the four South Dakota type battleships. The crew serving on USS Massachusetts humorously nicknamed their ship the Big Mamie.Building process started on July 1939, the launching took place on the 23rd of September 1941. The godmother of the ship was a formers Navy Secretary Charles Francis Adams wife. The equipping took more than half of year and on 12th of May 1942 the unit was introduced into the service. The first commander of the ship was captain Francis E. M. Whiting.Service of USS Massachusetts from the beginning teemed with interesting events. After finishing all tests, trials and crew trainings the ship left home waters in October 1942. It was assigned to invasion fleet formed for securing the landing of allied forces in North Africa.This is when the ship gained its fame after winning the battle with unfinished French battleship Jean Bart stationed in port of Casablanca. The damage caused by USS Massachusetts was so severe that French unit was never finished and didnt enter the operational service. During that fight titular ship also caused a lot of damage to the ports infrastructure and damaged some transport units.The crucial event of units service was the battle with group of French warships which managed to escape from Casablanca. Massachusetts together with assisting cruisers sunk the French cruiser Primauguet as well as two destroyers: Boulonnais and Fougueux; another one Malin was severely damaged.The battleship took its further service on the Pacific waters, quickly becoming the work horse of the fleet. It took part in dozens of different operations against Japanese forces. USS Massachusetts participated in countless escorts of aircraft carriers, supported the forces landings with its guns, covered the convoys with the AA fire. The battleship repeatedly shelled the Japanese positions many of them on home islands. For its service the unit was awarded with eleven Battle Stars gaining the label of remarkably merited battleship during the fight against Japan.After the war the ship continued its service on Pacific for a short period of time. In March 1947 it was transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet based in Norfolk, where it stayed until June 1962. On that year the unit was discharged from the US Navy. Originally there was a plan to send the battleship to the scrapyard but thanks to the efforts of war veterans and Massachusetts state inhabitants the deserved unit was saved.In the year 1965 the battleship was moved to Fall River where after proper adaptation and stating it the garden of remembrance of fallen WW2 soldiers it was open for tourists.Today the ship is permanently anchored in Battleship Cove place known as the biggest cluster of monument ships. It is grouped with USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. destroyer and USS Lionfish submarine.USS Massachusetts is preserved in mint condition and it is the great relic which allows the visitors to feel the strength of the unit and get to know the armament, architecture and construction of WW2 era battleships. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Russian cruiser Varyag is one of the most exciting and remarkable battleships concerning construction and armament, serving the USSR Navy during the Cold War. The ship was built in 1979-1989 as one of the four large missile cruisers of the project 1164. NATO designated Varyag as Slava. The battleship has unique shape dominated by the complex of superstructures with electrical equipment system antennas on top as well as SM-248 launchers of the 4K80 Bazalt system along the sides. The missile cruisers of the project 1164 to which, apart from Varyag, also belong Moscow (ex-Slava), Marshal Ustinov (ex-Admiral Lobov), and Ukraine (ex-Komsomolets/Admiral Flota Lobov) were one of the best in their class at the time with massive firepower. Because of technologically advanced missiles, they were called "aircraft carrier killers," which was related to their primary purpose destroying American aircraft carriers. Drawing sheets colour profiles The M3 General Lee was an American medium tank from the World War II era, also used by the British army. In the US, known as Lee, in the United Kingdom as Grant. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The work on the design of future long-range active antiaircraft and antisubmarine ship as it was initially determined was conducted by the Leningrad CKB-17 in close cooperation with OKB-938 led by N.I. Kamov. The author of the ship's design, which was given the number 1123 and the code "Kondor", was A.S. Sawiczew, and from 1967 A.W. Marinich. The main task of the ship was to search and destroy American nuclear submarines carrying "Polaris" ballistic missiles in the Antarctic Ocean and Barents Sea. Drawings and colour illustrations The work on the design of future long-range active anti-aircraft and anti-submarine ship as it was initially determined was conducted by the Leningrad CKB-17 in close cooperation with OKB-938 led by N.I. Kamov. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years 19411946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and armed with artillery towers stored since 1925, taken from the cruisers HMS "Courageous" and HMS "Glorious". It is widely regarded as Britain's best designed battleship, well-armed but also least needed. Design work began before World War II and was completed a year after its end, making it one of the longest-built ships in history. Her service, however, was quite short and lacking of interesting events. The unit was launched in 1944, and it entered service only two years later, so it did not have the opportunity to take part in World War II. The first major event in the history of the ship was the three-month journey to the British dominion of the Union of South Africa with George VI, Queen Mary and both daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Anne, on board between February and May 1947. drawing sheets, colour profiles The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years 1941-1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The British Airship Carrier HMS Furious is one of the most unusual units of the Second World War. The ship was designed during the previous conflict as a "great light cruiser" with 457mm guns, but far-reaching changes were made during construction. Furious entered service in June 1917 as aircraft cruiser with a large aircraft deck in the bow and a single turret with a gun of the mentioned caliber in the stern. Thus, Furious made history as one of the precursors of British on-board aviation, becoming a floating platform for various types of trials and tests with airplanes. It quickly turned out that aircraft deck took up the entire bow part and is insufficient to meet the needs of the day-to-day expanding on-board aviation. Therefore, after carrying out only a few patrols on the waters of the North Sea, the ship was returned to the shipyard in the same year, where it underwent further reconstruction. This time, the aft tower and mast were removed and in their place was built another hangar with an aircraft deck, which was connected to the bow with special platforms running on the sides of the preserved superstructures. Since then, Furious was already a powerful aircraft, unfortunately not very successful considering the superstructure with a chimney that occupies the entire amidships, which apart from obviously taking up space, caused air turbulences induced by the huge dimensions and warm exhaust gases coming from the chimney. However, this did not prevent Furious from becoming the hero of the historical event, which was on-board aviation first strike on land targets, which took place on July 19, 1918. The target of the attack was the German Zeppelin base in Tondern, and it was carried out using Sopwith Camel planes taking off from the deck of Furious. drawings sheets; colour profiles The British Airship Carrier HMS Furious is one of the most unusual units of the Second World War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The French battleship "Jean Bart" together with the twin "Richelieu" was among the largest and most modern ships of this class that served in the Marine Nationale. Their construction was based on the experience gained during the construction of Dunkerque battleships, smaller and less armed units, but quite modern for their times. A characteristic feature of the aforementioned ships, including the "Jean Bart", was the unusual layout of the main artillery concentrated in two four-barrel turrets located in the fore part, while medium caliber artillery was located in the stern part. This, in combination with the massive body of the command tower and the chimney "hidden" in the rest of the superstructures, created an amazingly presented silhouette of a beautiful and very dangerous ship. "Jean Bart" was built at the Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazarie (Penhoet) shipyard in Saint-Nazarie. The keel was laid on December 12, 1936. The ship was launched on March 6, 1940. drawing sheets, colour profiles The French battleship "Jean Bart" together with the twin "Richelieu" was among the largest and most modern ships of this class that served in the Marine Nationale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21st, 1957. Together with the twin "Foch", it was built on the basis of a project developed from the beginning of the 1950s, which included almost all of then novelties that were introduced in the construction of this type of ships. Therefore, she received, among others: a sloped flight deck with two lifts, mirror systems facilitating the approach to landing, means of observation enabling early detection of surface units and means of air attack, and modern catapults adapted to work with jet aircrafts with a large take-off mass. The length of the flight deck was 257 meters, the main runway was 165.5 metres long and 29.5 meters wide, with a deviation from the centre of the ship by 8 degrees. The hangar below it was 180 meters long and 22 meters wide. In more than forty years of service, which began on November 22, 1961, the "Clemenceau" performed countless tasks in both European and Pacific waters. She supported the activities of the land forces, incl. in former French colonies and during nuclear tests. Together with "Foch", she formed one of the strongest task force in the Mediterranean region and the waters of Western Europe. drawing sheets, colour profiles The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. USS Astoria was a cruiser of the New Orleans-class, built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Her keel was laid down on September 1, 1930. She was launched on December 16, 1933, and commissioned in the US Navy on April 28, 1934. 5 colour profiles, 17 modeling plans Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: New. The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21st, 1957. Together with the twin "Foch", it was built on the basis of a project developed from the beginning of the 1950s, which included almost all of then novelties that were introduced in the construction of this type of ships. Therefore, she received, among others: a sloped flight deck with two lifts, mirror systems facilitating the approach to landing, means of observation enabling early detection of surface units and means of air attack, and modern catapults adapted to work with jet aircrafts with a large take-off mass. The length of the flight deck was 257 meters, the main runway was 165.5 meters long and 29.5 meters wide, with a deviation from the centre of the ship by 8 degrees. The hangar below it was 180 meters long and 22 meters wide. In more than forty years of service, which began on November 22, 1961, the "Clemenceau" performed countless tasks in both European and Pacific waters. She supported the activities of the land forces, incl. in former French colonies and during nuclear tests. Together with "Foch", she formed one of the strongest task force in the Mediterranean region and the waters of Western Europe.