WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS - THE OCEANS, THE FORTS AND THE PARKS
VOLUME 2 - MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING FOR BRITISH ACCOUNT IN NORTH AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR II

AUTHORS - W.H. Mitchell and L.A. Sawyer and John S. Lindsey (illustrator)

PUBLICATION - Sea Breezes, Liverpool, UK, 1966

CONDITION - Hardback first edition. The book some rubbing and bumping on the top and bottom edges and corners, including the cellophane outer layer of the glossy printed boards is showing the familiar bubbling down the spine valley on both front and back. The top 1cm of the spine has been repaired, but still in one piece and well attached. Inside the endpapers and adjacent 3-5 pages show medium foxing and the front endpaper has one previous owners small (1cm by 3cm) ink stamp and brown tape stains to the outer corners, but the rest of the pages are clean and bright for their age, and the binding is very good. This is the scarce volume (Vol 2) of the trilogy and a good copy of an originally cheaply bound publication. No dustwrapper.

PRICE - $70

DESCRIPTION - This is the second and most sought-after volume in the trilogy published by Sea Breezes during the 1960s, complete in itself, with the authors providing detailed information on the emergency wartime merchant ships built in North America. Here we have the Forts vessels built in Canadian yards for British, Canadian and U.S. account, plus store ships, etc., purchased by the US from Canada. The Parks vessels built in Canadian yards and operated by the Park Steamship Company for the Canadian Government, plus other ships built in Canada and vessels built in the USA and converted in Canadian yards for naval service. Includes dry cargo ships, tankers, coasters, tugs, etc., - vessels of the North Sands, Victory, Dominion and other types. The Oceans vessels from U.S. yards that evolved from the Empire Liberty prototype with engines originating in Britain. All these standard ships were built in record time, often in a matter of days, to replace the large amount of tonnage falling victim to U-boats in the Atlantic. Without the emergency programmes and the supreme effort required there can be little doubt that the Battle of the Atlantic and therefore the war itself would have been lost. An important reference work illustrated with many photographs and line drawings.

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