ROYAL NAVY TRAWLERS - Part One: Admiralty Vessels Review

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(More customer reviews)"In the early days of the 20th century, the simple contact mine was becoming the cheap weapon of choice for many navies. Countering this threat eventually fell to the humbler trawler -- the similarity between trawling for fish and trawling for mines having quickly been realized.
By 1916 however, the Admieralty were facing a famine of commercially available trawlers, so they went into the trawler-building business. By the time the Armistic was signed, the RNR Trawler Section, originally a little force of 1200 men and 150 vessels for sweeping UK waters had expanded to a massive 39,000 men, manning more than 700 vessels at home and abroad.
This volume traces the histories of those Admiralty-built vessels which started life as humble minesweepers but soon became the jack-of-all-trades in two World Wars and beyond."
A handsome little volume from Maritime Books. Hardcover with a sewn binding; in dustjacket; baby blue papers over boards with gold details.
227 on glossy stock, index, bibliography, abbreviations, Port Registry. B&w illustrations.

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