Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume II: Vosper Mtbs and Us Elcos (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781682474358)

Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognized classic work first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively--in words, photographs, and drawings--with the technical detail of motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches, and submarine chasers. This second volume covers sixteen Vosper MTB designs and the US 70ft, 77ft and 80ft ELCO designs.

Author: John Lambert, Al Ross
ISBN-10: 1682474356
ISBN-13: 9781682474358
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.55lbs
Size: 11.60h x 10.20w x 1.00d

About the Author
JOHN LAMBERT spent nine years in the Royal Navy where he acquired his detailed technical knowledge of warships. His subsequent research on small warships and naval weaponry, combined with his remarkable technical drawing skills, led to the creation of a body of work some of which is displayed in this volume. He died in 2015.

AL ROSS is the author of several books on small warships and since the 1980s has been producing a series of plans for modelers of small combatants of World War II and Vietnam eras. He lives in Bangor, Maine.