Colourful menagerie of Thames vessels
Thames Shipping in Colour, by Andrew Wiltshire
Ranging from tugs to bucket dredgers to huge cargo-liners, if there's a ship of note that has passed down the Thames since the early 20th century, Andrew Wiltshire has probably written about it.
With colour pictures to go along with well written histories and descriptions, this book shows off the grandest of ships and the most unassuming smaller vessels. On each page there is something from the other side of the world or of wildly different design.
Thames Shipping in Colour
By Andrew Wiltshire
Mainline & Maritime, £21.95
ISBN: 978 19003 40984
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