Fast Attack Craft: The Evolution of Design and Tactics

Keiren Phelan; Martin H. Brice AND Keiren Phelan

ISBN 10: 0356049124 / ISBN 13: 9780356049120

Published by Macdonald & Janes, London, 1977

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224 pages, 1.1kg. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Seller Inventory # 21610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fast Attack Craft: The Evolution of Design and Tactics
• Publisher: Macdonald & Janes, London
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0356049124
• ISBN 13: 9780356049120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Maritime and Sailing
  • Modelling
  • Military

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Synopsis

A comprehensive study of the evolution, design, tactics and performance of fast fighting boats, their architects, boatbuilders and engineers, and the resulting successes and failures. Contemporary naval and economic factors, the dynamics of small boat design, an appraisal of Second World War performance, and their effects on the development of coastal motorboats, motor torpedo boats, motor gunboats, S- boats, MAS- boats, PT- boats, and fast patrol boats are recorded and analysed. The text is supported by diagrams and illustration.