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Six issues per year Three issues per year Send £4.00 for a sample copy Send £4.50 for a sample copy NN Flyer 2014_WWPR 1 Cover 06/10/2014 14:17 Page 2 ‘C’ CLASS DESTROYERS TOWN CLASS CRUISERS LOCH CLASS FRIGATES The ‘C’ class destroyers were For a quarter of a century, They were to prove to be amongst among the RN's most important through some of the most the best A/S frigates produced by warships after 1945. They turbulent years in Britain’s Great Britain during the war. 110 participated in many of the post- history, the Town-class cruisers ships were projected, but with the war RN operations from served the Royal Navy and the end of the war only 28 were Confrontation to the Cold War. country well. This volume details completed as such. This volume This volume details the histories the individual histories of each of records the design and service of each of the 32 destroyers. the ten ships. record of these vessels. 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H/B Was £25.00 Now £15.00 H/B Was £670.00 Now £99.00 H/B Was £19.95 Now £10.00 FEARLESS & INTREPID TIGER, LION & BLAKE 1942-1986 THREE ARK ROYALS 1938 - 1999 Twelve chapters covering the For 20 years between 1959 and The full stories of the last three careers of FEARLESS and 1979 the cruisers TIGER, LION ARK ROYALS; the wartime INTREPID in great detail and BLAKE took their place in ARK which saw so much action through each year of their service the fleet as the last big-gun in the first two years of the Second from the disengagement from warships. This is the first book to World War; the ARK of the Empire, through the Falklands tell the full stories of all three 1950s, 60s and 70s which, during War when they led the ships in detail. 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