The complete history of the British cruiser - in words and pictures, - from HMS Drake, built in 1903 to 1942’s HMS Blake converted to a helicopter carrier in 1963.

This is a pictorial account of the British cruiser from its emergence as a well-armed and armoured but fast vessel to counter the threat to Britain’s global naval dominance from Germany, France and Russia in the later 19th century, down to the cruiser’s final bow in the 1950s. From HMS Drake, completed in 1903 and torpedoed by a U-boat in the Great War, down to HMS Blake, a cruiser built in 1942 in the midst of the Second World War and converted to a helicopter carrier in the early 1960s to take accouint of the changing nature of naval warfare this is the whole story of perhaps Britain’s most elegant and flexible warship.

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Product Code:	10579
Author:	Lt Cdr Ben Warlow RN
Format:	112pp, b/w photographs, sb. Published Price £14.95
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