The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
COLLINGWOOD, Donald
An Operational History of the American-built Destroyer Escorts serving under the White Ensign from 1943-46.
Published: Leo Cooper, [1998]
Stock code: 12632
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
First dedicated history of the seventy-eight vessels of this class (built in the US as Buckley or Evarts classes). The work itself is arranged by Escort Group (with which most of the class served) with some useful photographs both of ships and individuals. Includes a bibliography, and a valuable roll of the class with DE hull no., RN pennant no., origin of name, CO(s) and Escort Group attachments