Sunday 27 September 2020

British Cruisers of the Victorian Era


This is currently available as a digital download for the Kindle at a reduced price of about a tenner. I'd put off getting it for a while but decided it would be a good idea before the price tag went back up. It is an excellent reference source for Royal Navy warships including sloops, corvettes and frigates of the mid-Victorian transitional and early ironclad era, as well as the light, armoured and protected cruisers of the later Victorian period. There's a lot of detail here covering armament, propulsion, armour, hull design and service history, so you definitely get your tenners worth of useful reference material including lots of photos, line drawings and plans. I'd much prefer a hardback copy but at less than a quarter of the asking price you can't complain. Brilliant!

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