Ships In Focus Record 2017

Record 2017 came out in mid-November 2017: an enlarged, 128-page, annual hardback with exactly the same mixture of accurate, well-researched features and photographs as our 64 four-monthly editions. It features owners old and not-so-old: British, Belgian and Anglo-Swedish; including Union-Castle, Cockerill and Burmah Oil. Coverage of shipbuilding runs from a small Welsh yard to the major figure of John Priestman. South West Scenes rounds off our pictorial coverage of the diverse maritime activities at Falmouth, and there is the story of an epic Second World War convoy battle. It covers a range of vessels, from cargo liners, tramps, trawlers and tankers to coasters and other small vessels. More pages mean longer, complete articles.