Destroyers, frigates and corvettes

by Robert Jackson

This book has 300 ships featured, each one illustrated by a full-colour artwork. Full displacement, performance and dimensions provided for each vessel.

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published September 16, 2000

About the author

Robert Jackson was born in 1941 in the North Yorkshire village of Melsonby. A former pilot and navigation instructor, his active involvement with aviation lasted many years. Following his retirement from the RAFVR in 1977 as a squadron leader, he became a full-time aviation writer and aerospace correspondent and lectured extensively on strategic issues. He speaks five languages, including Russian, and has written more than forty nonfiction works on military affairs. He is also the author of the popular Yeoman and SAS fiction series.

Reviews

[Steve Boyko · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this little book… which took me a surprisingly long time to read. I kept having to look up battles and more details on some of the ships featured in the book, which guess is a good indicator for the book?

Each page features one ship - its picture, a few paragraphs about the class and/or the specific ship, and some stats about the ship. My only quibble is this: occasionally the picture did not match the ship, or the text didn’t match. This may have happened about four or five times out of the 300 ships featured.

[Leonardo Chan Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice little reference book.