Warships of the Great War Era by David Hobbs

[George Hargreaves]

Seaforth Publishing and Naval Institute Press; 2014

If you are going to model British ships in this period this is an essential book for your reference collection. The book features glossy photos of ship models along with descriptions of the model and additional information. All of the photos are available on the web but a typical National Maritime Museum (NMM) photo from the web is 225 KB. The photos in the book are printed very clearly, so that with a high resolution scan you can then view and see detail that is not visible in the web based photo. What more could you ask for?

The models mostly come from the collection of the NMM with others from the Imperial War Museum, Glasgow Transport Museum, Australian War Memorial, Jim Baumann, John R Haynes, Rob Kernaghan, Ian Johnston and others. The NMM models have their SLR# to make it easy to go to the source at NMM.

Here is a listing of the ships featured along with the time period:

Ship Models British
Battleships
HMS Dreadnought 1907, Ramillies 1893, Hindustan 1913, Hibernia 1912, Conqueror 1912, Iron Duke RC & 1918, Marlborough 1914, Queen Elizabeth 1925-27, Barham, Revenge 1920�s sailors model.
Battle Cruisers
Indomitable 1908,Australia 1913 Queen Mary 1913 & 1914, Hood 1941
Cruisers
Gibraltar 1889, Cressy 1914, Leviathan 1901, Forward 1905, Sydney 1917, Caroline 1914
Destroyers
Whiting 1897, Boyne 1903, Ghurka 1907, Grasshopper 1911, Jackal 1911, Mastiff 1914, Westminster 1918, Warwick 1918, Wolverine 1919
Submarines
Holland I 1901, HMAS AE2 1915, E29 1921, �K� Early, Mi Cutaway 1918
Other Warships
Engadine 1918, Furious 1918, P34 1916, Hyderabad Q Ship 1917, Vindictive 1918, Snapdragon 1916, Ludlow 1916, CMB 55� 1916, Sandpiper 1883, Firefly 1915Tarantula 1915
Merchantmen
Andes 1939, Almanzona 1914War Arrow 1917, A24 1915

Ship Models Chilean
Almirante Simpson 1896

Ship Models German
Baden 1915, Dresden 1909, Regensburg 1915, T90 1899, G37 1914

Ship Models Japanese
Fuji 1897, Nitaka 1902, Mogami 1910