Steam and Sail in Britain and North America

Greenhill, Basil and Rear Admiral P.W. Brock: 1973 UK, hardcover with dust jacket 112 pages, illustrated. Steam and Sail in Britain and North America is an English language photo and reference book by P W Brock (with Basil Greenhill) about the transition from sail to steam in British and North American naval, merchant and special purpose ships, illustrated with around eighty photographs mainly from the National Maritime Museum. The book uses these images with concise captions and background text to show how mixed sail and steam rigs were used on a wide range of vessel types in the nineteenth century, making it a compact visual guide to this hybrid era. ISBN 9780715359679 In good condition