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BLACK DIAMOND FLEETS A comprehensive history of 150 years of powered colliers from 1850, including those owned by William Cory, Stephenson Clarke, France Fenwick, Shipping + Coal, Nationalised Gas + Electricity, giving a total of twenty companies and their owned colliers. Full careers of 1,000 colliers. Hardback, 160 pages, 96 photographs £19.50 CABLESHIPS Published to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the first submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais in 1851. A cable-ship chronology over 150 years is followed by the great cableship fleets of Great Britain, U.S.A., France, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Norway and the rest of the world. Full career details of 312 permanent and 80 chartered cableships. Hardback, 160 pages, 190 photographs and illustrations. £24.00 WORLD TANKERS The most comprehensive title on world tanker fleets ever published. Shell. Esso, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron & BP + 22 other oil international fleets + State-controlled fleets + all the leading independent owners. The author Norman L. Middlemiss has written four books on tankers. A4 Hardback, 144 pages, fully illustrated, highly recommended £20.00 Also 'WARTIME WITH SHELL' by Capt. Bob Allen - autobiography of a Shell Marine Super. 144 pages, illustrated £15.00 BRITISH SHIPBUILDING YARDS Volume III of a series covering all of Britain's great shipyards. This Volume covers Belfast, Merseyside, Barrow and most of the smaller Yards around the coast. 256 pages, 150 yard plans and photographs. £18.95 |