Good books

Guess the bookshop has a box full. Not an expert on compond interest but £14.95 cover price 1989, to £25.00 today doesn't seem that bad compared with the increase in RPI.

Ref building a new D, has anyone out there built or thought of building a scale MTB/MGB, maybe 1/4 size or so? Might be an interesting exercise, especially to see how a smaller hull performs, etc.... Might need to modify accomodation and superstructure, unless you can find a midget to drive it.

Point taken, about saving originals, that has to be a priority. There are parallels with the aeroplane and train world as recent posts have proved. I'd like to believe that all originals could be saved but recent events worry me a little. I know how fast wooden boats can deteriorate and recent losses prove that unless a well kept boat is maintained that way it can soon be beyond economic repair to recommission for sea. Perhaps some more could be saved as static land based exhibits.

Which brings me back on track. Are there any, published, books, lists etc.. of what ww2 craft survive and where?

Hello marksaab,

Re 'E-Boat Alert'

I have found that if you read a few pages and find a glaring mistake it sours the rest of the book - there are a couple of howlers within the pages (HMS Scimitar was not one of the US four stackers) and later (S130 was certainly not 'broken up' at Wilmshaven) you can expect some later news on that particular boat!! It is a shame that James Foster Tent was not nearly as thorough in his research as the book suggests.

 Sounds like it could be fun Clive. Have trouble fitting in 506's bilges so may be a firebrigade job with a scaled down whaleback.

 Also toyed with the idea of a 1:1 fibreglass replica that could be abused stupidly & blown up if a film company fancied the bill. Not the same as a wooden boat with her little imperfections though(or major imperfections with some). Think when all the originals safe i'll look into a scaled type two, could be a scream! Maybe even a race series to relieve the hassles of rebuilding originals. May as well add some fun to our efforts

Hi All

Did my usual reading habit with E Boat Alert and read a the end first, now doing the middle!  I will look out for the errors!! I guess some will always be inevitable..I would have thought wartime needs produced some strange results...certainly on aircraft repairs where it was not unknown for one aircraft to be rebuilt from the front half of one and the back half of another!

However the S-130 error is a bit bad!!

Any news on the 3rd Volume of John Lamberts series? was it going to cover BPB boats?

Happy reading!   Mark