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The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum's curators, for whom it is a precious resource, used on an almost daily basis.
In collaboration with the Museum, Seaforth is undertaking the first publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition that captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making the extensive hand-written annotation readable, while the fine-line drawings retain all the colours that Perkins used to denote appearance differences and alterations.
Following the Museum's binding arrangement, the fourth volume of the series completes the coverage of all cruiser-type ships down to the Belfast class of 1939 begun in Volume III. This second part includes most of the smaller cruisers from about 1916 back to the Amazon class corvettes of 1865.
This is a publishing event of the utmost importance for every enthusiast and ship modeller, who for the first time will be able to own a copy of a unique and invaluable reference work.
In collaboration with the Museum, Seaforth is undertaking the first publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition that captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making the extensive hand-written annotation readable, while the fine-line drawings retain all the colours that Perkins used to denote appearance differences and alterations.
Following the Museum's binding arrangement, the fourth volume of the series completes the coverage of all cruiser-type ships down to the Belfast class of 1939 begun in Volume III. This second part includes most of the smaller cruisers from about 1916 back to the Amazon class corvettes of 1865.
This is a publishing event of the utmost importance for every enthusiast and ship modeller, who for the first time will be able to own a copy of a unique and invaluable reference work.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPen and Sword
Release dateJun 30, 2017
ISBN9781473891517
Author
Richard Perkins
RICHARD PERKINS originally produced what he called his Historical Identification Book to help identify and date photos in his monumental collection, but its wider significance is highlighted in this edition by an Introduction by ANDREW CHOONG, Curator of Historic Photographs and Ships' Plans at the National Maritime Museum, for whom the albums are an indispensable reference.
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British Warship Recognition - Richard Perkins
British Warship Recognition
Volume IV: Cruisers 1865–1939, Part 2
British Warship Recognition
The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume IV: Cruisers 1865–1939, Part 2
RICHARD PERKINS
Introduction by Andrew Choong
Frontispiece. These three photographs from the vast range of the Richard Perkins Collection give some indication of the variety of the cruisers covered in this fourth volume of his albums. Top to bottom, they are: the iron frigate Inconstant, originally completed in 1869 but seen here about 1890; Charybdis in about 1903, typical of many 2nd-class protected cruisers of moderate dimensions built in the 1890s; and the light cruiser Calliope (seen about 1930 with Hood in the background), one of a series of generally similar classes built during the First World War. (© National Maritime Museum, N29414, NO 1374 and NO 1606 respectively)
Copyright © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2017
This edition first published in Great Britain in 2017 by
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An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
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Published in association with Royal Museums Greenwich, the group name for the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Queen’s House and Cutty Sark
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