British Battleships Reference Book list MK2 Modified!!!

[Laurence Batchelor]

British Battleships


Battleships of the World 1905-1970 by Siegfried Breyer
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Battleships & Battlecruisers 1905-1970 by Siegfried Breyer
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British battleships in World War 1 (1986) by Ray A. Burt.
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British Battleships 1919-1939 (1993) by Ray A. Burt
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Battleships of the World An International Encyclopaedia by M.J. Whitley
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British Battleships of World War 2 by Alan Raven & John Roberts
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British Battleships of WW2 by Dr. Oscar Parkes
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British Battleships 1892-1957 by Randolph Pears
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Dreadnoughts in Camera 1905-1920 by Roger D. Thomas & Brian Patterson
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British battleships. By W.D.G Blundell. Altmark Publication
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British Battlecruisers. By Peter C. Smith. Altmark Publication
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Royal Navy Warships 1939-1945 by W.D.G Blundell. Altmark Publications
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Battlecruisers by John Roberts
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Battleships of World War 1 by Anthony Preston
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Battleships: Allied Battleships in World War II. By William H. Garzke, Robert O. Dulin, Thomas G. Webb
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Conway's All the Worlds Battleships 1906 to the present. Edited By Ian Sturton
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Battleships 1856-1919. Phoebus Publication
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Battleships 1919-1977 Phoebus Publication.
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King George V Class Battleships by V.E. Tarrant
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Shipcraft series 2 : King George V Class Battleships
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Battlecruisers Shipshape series. by John Roberts
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British Warships of the Second World War By John Roberts. Blueprint Series
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Battleships of the Grand Fleet: A Pictorial review of the Royal Navy's Capital Ships in WW1 by Ray A. Burt & W.P. Trotter.
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The Grand Fleet Warship Development 1906-1922 by D.K. Brown
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Nelson to Vanguard. Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 by D.K. Brown
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Rebuilding the Royal Navy. Warship design since 1945. By D.K. Brown & George Moore
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The Eclipse of the Big Gun. The Warship 1906-45. Editor D.K. Brown
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Dreadnought : A History of the Modern Battleship by Richard Hough. Introduction by C.S. Forester
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Warship Monographs : The Invincible Class by J. Roberts
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Warship Monographs : The Queen Elizabeth Class by John Campbell
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Battleships at War by Cdr. B.R. Coward RN
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British Warships of the Second World War : A Folio of authentic scale plans by Alan Raven & John Roberts.
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The Hybrid Warship : The amalgamation of Big Guns and Aircraft by R.D. Layman & Stephen Mclaughlin.
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The Metal Fighting Ship of the Royal Navy 897-1984 by E.H.H. Archibald
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The World's Great Battleships by Anthony Preston
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Battleships By Anthony Preston
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Battleship 1856-1977 by Anthony Preston. Illustrated by John Batchelor
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The Encyclopaedia of the World's Warships : A Technical Directory of Major Fighting Ships from 1900 to the present.
Author : Hugh Lyon. Consultant Captain J.E. Moore R.N.
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Battleships WW2 Fact Files By Anthony J. Watts
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Battleships and Battlecruisers by Richard Humble
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Battleships of the World By Rene Greger & Geoffrey Brooks
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Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century by Bernard Ireland & Tony Gibbons
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Battleships by Ian Johnstone & Rob McAuley in association with Channel 4
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Janes Fighting Ships Of WW1
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Janes Fightting Ships of WW2
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The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships & Battlecruisers : A Technical directory of all the world's capital ships from 1860 to the present day. By Tony Gibbons
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Battleships & Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy since 1861 by Cdr. B.R. Coward RN
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Battleship Royal Sovereign and her Sister Ships by Peter C. Smith.
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Warspite, Warships of the Royal Navy by Iain Ballantyne.
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Battleship Design & Development 1905-1945 by Norman Friedman
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Battlecruisers : A History 1908-1948 By Ronald Bassett
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Bismarck & Hood : Great Naval Adversaries by Paul J. Kemp
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Battleship: The Development and decline of the Dreadnought by Peter Simkins IWM Publication
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Battleship, Cruiser, Destroyer by Gregory Haines & Cdr. B.R. Coward RN
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Conway's Anatomy of the Ship Series:-

The Battleship DREADNOUGHT. Revised Edition with 1/256 scale fold-out plan. By John Roberts
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The Battleship WARSPITE. By Ross Watton
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The Battlecruiser HOOD. Revised Edition complete with 1/400 scale fold-out plan. By John Roberts
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Profiles & Miscellaneous

Warship Special 1 Battlecruisers : The Design and Development of British & German Battlecruisers of the 1st World War era by N.J.M Campbell
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Ensign 1 King George V Class by Alan Raven
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Ensign 4 Queen Elizabeth Class by Alan Raven & John Roberts
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Ensign Special Hood Design & Construction by Maurice Northcott
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Ensign 8 Renown & Repulse by Maurice P. Northcott
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Man o'war 3 Battleships Rodney & Nelson by Alan Raven & John Roberts
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Man o'war 6 HMS Hood by Maurice Northcott (same as Ensign Special Book apart from extra)
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Classic Warships Pictorial HMS HOOD
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Warship Profile 1 HMS Dreadnought Battleship 1906-1920. Profile Publications by John Wingate
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Warship Profile 19 HMS Hood Battlecruiser 1916-1941 by R.G. Robertson
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Morza Statki I Okrety, Biblioteka Magazynu 2 : Biate Stonie HMS Courageous, Glorious, Furious. Magnum X
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AJ Press 14 Nelson & Rodney
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Warships of the World 12 HMS Repulse by Maciej S. Sobanski
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Profile Morskie 4 HMS REPULSE
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Profile Morskie 25 HMS ROYAL OAK
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Profile Morskie 27 HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Profile Morskie 34 HMS RENOWN
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Profile Morskie 47 HMS MALAYA
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Profile Morskie 49 HMS PRINCE OF WALES
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Profile Morskie 54 HMS RESOLUTION
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Profile Morskie 63 HMS HOOD
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[JIM BAUMANN]

excellent list and overview---thanks Laurence!!

Disturbingly.....!?!! I seem to have virtually every book(and then some more!) in my reference collection....

Ouch! the value in ���(�'s!!!) must be considerable.....

and all that to better be able to build toy boats....

JIM BAUMANN

[Laurence Batchelor]

Cheers Jim,

If you think I've missed any books of high value please email me the titles and I'll either have them or I can put them onto the list with a picture etc. I want the list to be comprehensive

My idea is to do British Aircraft Carriers next, then Cruisers, then destroyers etc!!! when I get time!!! lol and then other navies etc.

Regards
Laurence

[Anonymous]

I've just received a few books of the series "To sail no more", showing RN ships at the break-up yards. Also very interesting, showing a great deal of detail. Trouble is that there is no structure whatsoever in these books.

[Laurence Batchelor]

HI there I have all 7 of those "to sail no more" books but didnt include them here because they deal with the ships being broken up or destroyed.
They are published by Maritime Books and are a good pictorial reference I suppose though @ �15.99 I thought their retail was a bit high, luckily I managaed to pick most of mine up for �5 each in a sale!!! lol!!!

[Anonymous]

For "out of the box" builders these books dont add too much (Though there is one excellent picture of HMS Roberts), but they do show general construction of RN ships and equipment (Hmm, the remaining battleships do get a lot of attention though). For a scratchbuilders they are VERY useful.

If only I could get a few good pictures of the HACS Mk III system...

BTW, do you thinks it's a good idea to add the monitors? As they're also big gun vessels.... and while I, at it, perhaps you could throw it into a smell website with mini reviews as I did here:

http://ontheslipway.hamershof.com/index.jsp?CID=5

[Laurence Batchelor]

I did post both the best 2 monitor books i had the Buxton and Kemp ones on the last forum with pics, I'll see if i can find it again and will add it to the list.

I would like to do a website but then again it's the time factor for writing a review of all the 600 warship books and profiles I own!!! lol

[TTTTTTTTTT]

Hi Laurence,
How do you organize your collection? Does it take up much room in the house? Since I live in a 2 bedroom condo, space is at a premium and I stick the books where they fit, but would love to organize them better someday.
Are the ones you're selling off duplicates, or are you downsizing?
Looking forward to the rest of your lists, cruisers, destroyers, etc.
Best regards,
Ted

[Laurence Batchelor]

Hi Ted,
My house is quite small also with just 2 bedrooms, but I've managed to get my entire collection into my bedroom onto a custom fit shelfing arrangements I did over the summer and a large book case and several cupboards also!!! lol!! If anything doesnt fit like all my models they go into the loft!!! lol!!!

The stuff I'm selling at the moment are duplicates that I've collected somehow!!!
Hopefully I'll get all the man o war books on ebay tonight and then I'll do the Profiles and then the more expensive books like Raven & Roberts cruisers book which I have 2 of!!! and a few other rare ones also over the coming days!!!

Cheers
All the best from a snowy England today!!!
Regards
Laurence Batchelor

[TTTTTTTTTT]

Sounds good Laurence, I may need to come up with some custom shelving myself. The Lacroix book on Japanese cruisers needs a shelf all to itself, practically.
I've been looking for a copy of the Raven/Roberts cruiser treatise! if I can buy one of yours, that would mean I just needed the Burt 1919-1939 book to have a complete collection. It will be tough with the exchange rate as bad as it is for Americans at the moment, but I'll see what I can come up with.

[Kym Knight]

Lozza, a work of art my boy!!!!!! Excellent job.

[Laurence Batchelor]

Just thought I'd post so to draw attention to this list for people who've missed it.

[Anonymous]

A piece of biiiig work!

Have you ever consider to include:
Rene Gregers' Battleships of World, and
Siegfried Breyefs' Marine-Arsenal Sonderheft Band No. 19 Hood
I don't know those books but looks like should be something related to British BBs


Morza Statki I Okrety, Biblioteka Magazynu 2 : Biate Stonie HMS Courageous, Glorious, Furious. Magnum X
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Very often it takes place the Foreigners interpretate Polish "L" with oblique little stroke as "T" (in words Biale Slonie ie, White
Elephants). That is the reason I omit these stroke when hand write my Name (it contains this awful obliqued L) for someone abroad,
leaving common L which sounds much closer to obliqed L (pronounced like English W) than T.
So the best way to avoid confusion is omit all those little tails below a,e and little points and apostrophes above c,o,s,z and leave
"nude" latin letters.

Regards MM

[Laurence Batchelor]

I swear I put the Rene Greger book in as I have it.

The Marine Arsenal one I admit I forgot because I sold mine.

I will try and add these ASAP

Also if anyone notices anymore books spefically about British Battleships or Battlecruisers then please post here I want this to be a comprehensive list for modellers.

Cheers
Laurence