Anatomi of The Ship

A complete anatomy in words, photographs and drawings of the Susan Constant, with further examination of the theories and techniques of 17th century shipbuilding.

The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her most famous encounter, after which she became nicknamed 'Old Ironsides' due to British shot being seen bouncing off her hull, involved HMS Guerriere, which she smashed; the same treatment was meted out to HMS Java four months later.
Now the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, she is berthed in Boston Harbor.

The 'A' class were the culmination of British World War II submarine design,and benefitted enormously from wartime lesson and the latest available technology. This book covers the whole class, although it concentrates on Alliance, which has been preserved as part of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport.

The 'A' class were the culmination of British World War II submarine design,and benefitted enormously from wartime lesson and the latest available technology. This book covers the whole class, although it concentrates on Alliance, which has been preserved as part of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport.