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Very good in Very good jacket. Format is approximately 10.75 inches by 8 inches. [2], vi, 138 pages. Illustrations. Foreword by Murray Easton, Managing Director, BAE Systems Submarine Solutions. Select Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. This is a nicely produced book. This was Vickers most productive period, many very interesting ships being built for the RN and other navies. The author shows a greater interest in small craft and submarines of the WW2 period and after. Of course, submarines are what the modern Vickers company specializes in. If submersibles are your interest then you will doubtless enjoy this book. Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Ltd (VSEL) was a shipbuilding company based at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria in northwest England that built warships, civilian ships, submarines and armaments. The company was historically the Naval Construction Works of Vickers Armstrongs and has a heritage of building large naval warships and armaments. Through a complicated history the company's shipbuilding division is now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions and the armaments division is now part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments. In 1897, Vickers & Sons bought the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, becoming Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Limited. [2] The shipyard at Barrow became the Naval Construction & Armaments Company. In 1911 the company was renamed Vickers Ltd, and in 1927 became Vickers Armstrongs Ltd after a merger with Armstrong Whitworth, whose shipyard at High Walker on the River Tyne became the "Naval Yard"
