Description and condition:

Bordeaux cloth hardback with gilt decoration, dustcover, 4to, 135 pp., b/w illustrations.

Good or better copy, light bump to bottom corner, tiny split to head of spine, internally very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In foxed and soiled dustcover with chipping, now protected.

Contents:

History of the shipbuilding company: Isle of dogs; river and lake boats; birth of the destroyer; scotstoun; marine boilers; war 1914-18; between the wars; land boilers; yarrows overseas; war 1939-45; Yarrows admiralty research department; the post-war years. Appendix: the Yarrow fleet; marine boilers; land boilers; Y-ARD contracts.