British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums: Volume II: Armored Ships 1860-1895, Monitors and Aviation Ships

Because this unique, hand-drawn manuscript artifact is in the care of the National Maritime Museum, it has rarely been seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, who use the albums on a daily basis and regard them as a precious resource.This monumental work, in collaboration with the Museum, is a superbly produced multi-volume edition that captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full-size, making the extensive hand-written annotation readable, while the fine-line drawings retain all the colors that Perkins used to denote appearance differences and alterations.Following the Museum’s binding arrangement, this second volume of the series covers armored ships from Warrior to the Royal Sovereigns (all later capital ships from the Majestic class onwards can be found in Volume I), as well as monitors, seaplane, and aircraft carriers.. The Richard Perkins warship identification albums for

What he called his “Historical Identification Book” was originally intended only to help with this work, but its wider significance is highlighted in this edition by Andrew Choong, Curator of Historic Photos for the National Maritime Museum.Andrew Choong is Curator of Historic Photos at the National M

What he called his “Historical Identification Book” was originally intended only to help with this work, but its wider significance is highlighted in this edition by Andrew Choong, Curator of Historic Photos for the National Maritime Museum.Andrew Choong is Curator of Historic Photos at the National Maritime Museum. . About the Author Richard Perkins was a leading light in the Naval Photograph Club, where he became the acknowledged expert on identifying and dating warship photos