Black Swan Class Sloops is a well-produced, high quality book that maintains the high standards being set by an innovative and highly informative series.

Warship Annual 2021 Edition

The drawings themselves are marvellous examples of the draughtsman’s art, and those that show later modifications in red are still beautifully clear and precise. The book isn’t all line drawings and plans. The opening chapter traces the development of the Black Swans from the early sloops of the 1030s, and there is some coverage of the 2nd Escort group and the Yangstze incident. However, this isn’t a book about technical aspects of the class, armaments, radar etc, but if you want to really get a detailed look at a 1940’s classic warship design, then this is the book for you. Once you have opened this book you are literally drawn into shipborne life – sit back and enjoy.

Warship World May/June issue 2020

This is a more than worthy addition to Seaforth Publishing’s As Detailed in the Original Builders Plans series. It covers a very important and significant class of Royal Navy warships during World War II, it is glorious in its appearance, and it is amazingly informative. Anyone with the slightest interest in escort ships from this period needs to add it to their library immediately.

Nautical Research Journal

This well-produced book is ideal for those fascinated by Second World War escorts as well as model makers, artists and those who enjoy studying the minutiae of ship plans. Good value for money and recommended.

World Ship Society - Marine News, June 2020

This series of books is in fact very useful not only to historians and enthusiasts but also to modelers because it carefully describes the different details between the various ships and even between the same ships at different times. Another beautiful book published by Seaforth Publishing.

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On The Old Barbed Wire

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International Plastic Modellers Society

Another Jewel for our Naval Library.

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Miniaturas JM

This is the first book in the series to cover a class of ship, previous volumes providing original builders’ plans for a single major warship. The Black Swan Class were built to provide the numbers of convoy escorts required, especially for the North Atlantic convoys. – Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

This is another fascinating entry in this series, giving a really interesting view inside these important smaller warships. Once again there is a great deal of information to be found in a close examination of the plans, which reveal all sorts of details that would otherwise be lost.

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History of War

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Model Boats, April 2020

One of the things I particularly like about this and some other similar books in this series, is that you get access to some of the detail held in the collection of a national museum, with an unrivalled collection, published in a way that gives access to some of that archive to historians and modellers anywhere in the world. Clearly this includes those who could not easily visit the museum for themselves. Lots of detail for historians and for modellers in particular which will be an invaluable resource. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in the U-Boat war and RN ships of WW2.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

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