Title Wartime standard ships / Nick Robins ; foreword by Nick Ramsay.

Publication Info.	Barnsley, Great Britain : Seaforth Publishing, a division of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017.
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Description	1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Note	Illustrations on lining papers.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 174) and index.
Contents	The concept: austere, functional and lots of them -- Fir for purpose: the design criteria -- Ships built in Britain during the Great War -- The American and Canadian Great War 'Bridge of Ships' -- The commercial role of the standard ships of the Great War -- At war again - rebuilding. lessons learnt and lend-lease -- United States Maritime Commission - C, T and N classes -- The Empire ships built in Britain -- The Liberty shipbuilding programme: 'Built by the mile and cut off by the yard' -- Canadian shipbuilding and shipowning, and Australia's rivers -- Liberty's successor, the Victory ships -- German standard ships built in the Second World War -- Japanese standard ships -- The big sell-off and post-war commercial success of the standard ships -- The influence of standard ship design on the evolution of naval architecture -- Successes and failures : an unparalleled achievement.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Cargo ships -- History -- 20th century.
	Cargo ships -- Design and construction.
	Liberty ships -- History -- 20th century.
	Liberty ships -- Design and construction.
	Victory ships -- History -- 20th century.
	Victory ships -- Design and construction.
	Merchant marine -- History -- 20th century.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science.
	Cargo ships. (OCoLC)fst00847405
	Cargo ships -- Design and construction. (OCoLC)fst00847407
	Liberty ships. (OCoLC)fst00997294
	Liberty ships -- Design and construction. (OCoLC)fst00997295
	Merchant marine. (OCoLC)fst01016936
	Victory ships. (OCoLC)fst01739732
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Ramsay, Nick, writer of foreword.
Other Form:	Print version: Robins, N. S. Wartime standard ships. Barnsley, Great Britain : Seaforth Publishing, a division of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017 184832376X (OCoLC)968162020
ISBN	9781848323773 (electronic bk.)
	1848323778 (electronic bk.)

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