ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WWII: Volume 1 Fairmile Marine Company Designs and US Submarine chasers. (Conway's naval history after 1850)

The first volume for this established series detailing all the designs for Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gun Boats and Motor Launches that served the Allied Forces in the period 1939-45 is to examine the remaining designs and their weapons. Volume II looks at Vesper MTB designs, and the US Elcos with their weapon systems while Volume III examines in depth the remaining types designed and built on both sides of the Atlantic.

Volume I covers all the designs of the British Fairmile Marine Company (including those craft built and equipped in Canada), together with the 72ft Admiralty Harbour Defense Motor Launch designs and the US Navy’s 110 ft submarine chaser. Design, construction, equipment and subsequent development are all covered, and builders, construction lists, fates and technical data are given for each type. Separate sections deal with Coastal Forces armament and equipment in full, and appendices include further technical detail, production data, provisioning and typical service records. John Lambert is the author of a number of books for Conway Maritime Press including Allied Coastal Forces, volume 2 and the forthcoming volume 3, and The Submarine Alliance in the ‘Anatomy of the Ship’ series.

Al Ross is a world famous draughts man and has contributed to Conway’s History of the Ship and The Escort Carrier Gambier Bay in the ‘Anatomy’ series.