Lightships guided ships of all nations past offshore reefs and sandbanks that posed extreme hazards to navigation where lighthouses could not be built. This book describes their design, construction and evolution over more than two centuries of service.

The Book of the Month April 2025.

Volume 4 of the acclaimed Leith-built Ships series follows Ship Nos 495 to 535 built from 1965 until the eventual closure of the shipyard in 1984 by a government that was hell-bent on destroying British industry and breaking the powerful unions.

Available to pre-order. Stock is expected after 15 February 2025

NOT YET PUBLISHED. EXPECTED IN FEBRUARY 2025. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER. The Book of the Month February 2025.

This is a readable and at times moving account of Operation Title, the attempt to disable the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway using human torpedoes or “Chariots”.