Enter the museum: Ships

Author: Tony Gibbons
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book introduces readers to ships that have spanned five thousand years and traversed the world's major oceans. It covers over 1,500 of the most important ships, from the earliest reed boats and the longships of the Norse Vikings to the Spanish galleons of the 16th century and the cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and nuclear submarines of the 21st century. The book presents the history, construction, performance, uses, and equipment of each ship through a combination of color illustrations, descriptive text, and specifications. Rich in content and visually engaging, it is a comprehensive history of naval vessels and can be considered an authoritative, knowledge-based, entertaining, and informative encyclopedia of ships.