Book Review of
Scapa Flow, Home of the Royal Navy
1939-1945
Author Krzysztof Kubiak
MMP (Mushroom Model Publications)
Maritime Series no, 3110
ISBN: 978-83-66549-03-6
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2021
MSRP: $ 35,00
Maritime Series no, 3110
ISBN: 978-83-66549-03-6
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2021
MSRP: $ 35,00
HISTORY:
Because of the great distance from German airfields, Scapa Flow was again selected as the main British naval base during the Second World War.
For that war, Scapa Flow remained a very busy naval base, with it serving as a staging point for Arctic Convoys to northern Russia, for example. The military base at Scapa Flow remained in use until 1956.
THE BOOK:
MMP (Mushroom Model Publications) is based in the UK. All their books are printed by their associate Stratus Publications, who is based in Lublin, Poland, in the English language, Stratus also does their own line of books in both Polish and English.
This book is soft-cover of 96 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format.
The cover art shows a color illustration of a black German U-boat at sea at night. It has a white flower on the turret side. I think it may show German Captain-Lieutenant Günter Priene's U-47 U-boat.
This book presents the detailed history of the naval base during World War Two. It contains 112 black and white photos and no color ones, 7 maps and 3 data lists.
The black and white photos include:
A photo of Martello Tower on the island of Hoy, WWI German artifacts in a museum, aerial photo of Scapa Flow, an element of the Lynes Base fuel pipeline, a landmark of Orkney – a stack known as the “Old Man”, a monument to Kitchener, an observation point, 5 photos of German U-boat Captain-Lieutenant Günter Prien and 4 photos of his U-47, the remains of a torpedo launched by U-47,German Admiral Karl Donitz, 11 photos of British Captains and sailors, a command tower searchlight building, the Churchill Barrier between Burry & Glumps Holm, Photo of Black Skerry Sound, a gun-emplacement of a twin 57mm & 6 pdr. firing turret, 2 photos of barrage balloons.
Aerial photo of Lynes taken on Oct. 18, 1939, a 94mm anti-aircraft gun, stone mooring anchor used for barrage balloons, a barrage balloon repair center building, a Fordham E817T vehicle used for handing barrage balloons, 2 photos of Fairey Swordfish aircrafts, a storage warehouse, a Bren-gun carrier, a crew manning a 76mm gun, a crew manning a 40mm Bofors gun, a 90mm searchlight, a Blackburn Skua bomber/fighter aircraft, an aerial photo of Holm Sound, the Italian chapel at Camp 60 and its interior, fuel pumps at Lyness fuel depot, stone blocks on the Churchill Barrier, submarine net in Gutter Sound, a sailor with a reindeer, British coastal battery 4.7” quick-firing Mk4 gun, a cemetery for WWI & WWII sailors,
Ships photographed are:
The aircraft-carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship HMS Repulse, battleship HMS King George V, German Hochseeflotte interned at Scapa Flow, Australian Navy heavy-cruiser Australia, battleship HMS Resolution, battleships HMS Nelson, Royal Sovereign, two of the Iron Duke & Renown, seaplane carrier HMS Pegasus, battleship HMS Royal Oak, battleship HMS Norfolk, ships Lycia & ILsen Stein scuttled a Block Sherry Sound, an auxiliary vessel, aircraft carrier HMS Wasp, the foredeck of the HMS Nelson, battleship HMS Rodney, German light-cruiser Konigsberg, Cruiser HMS Edinburgh, heavy-cruiser USS Wichita, battleship HMS Revenge, cruiser HMS Dorsetshire.
A boom & net barrage depot ship, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship with a R class submarine, light-cruiser HMS Belfast, 2 photos of battleship USS Washington, heavy-cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, destroyer HMS Fury, Canadian “four-piper” St. Croix, Destroyer USS Sterett, battleship USS Alabama, submarines HMS Unbroken & Uther, aircraft-carrier HMS Victorious, battleship HMS Renown, aircraft-carrier HMS Wasp, submarine HMS Ultimatum.
Polish Navy ORP Blyakwiza destroyer,escort destroyer ORP Slazak, destroyer ORP Burza, destroyer ORP Blyskawica, destroyer ORP Garland.
Line-drawings of guns include:
A 4.7” quick-firing gun (WWI), a 4.7” quick-firing 4cm Pivot-mount gun (WWII), a 6” Mark 7 breech-loading gun on pedestal Mark 8 mounting (WWII), a 12 pdr. quick-firing Mark 1 (WWII), a twin 6 pdr. quick-firing Mark 1 (WWII). a 2-view (side and top) of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the HMS Nelson in 1940, a 2-view of the HMS Rodney in 1940-42 & 43, a side-view of HMS Royal Oak. No scale is given for these drawings.
The end of the book has a long SHIP NAME INDEX.
This book will be of interest to ship modelers and naval historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the North American distributor of MMP books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Because of the great distance from German airfields, Scapa Flow was again selected as the main British naval base during the Second World War.
For that war, Scapa Flow remained a very busy naval base, with it serving as a staging point for Arctic Convoys to northern Russia, for example. The military base at Scapa Flow remained in use until 1956.
THE BOOK:
MMP (Mushroom Model Publications) is based in the UK. All their books are printed by their associate Stratus Publications, who is based in Lublin, Poland, in the English language, Stratus also does their own line of books in both Polish and English.
This book is soft-cover of 96 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format.
The cover art shows a color illustration of a black German U-boat at sea at night. It has a white flower on the turret side. I think it may show German Captain-Lieutenant Günter Priene's U-47 U-boat.
This book presents the detailed history of the naval base during World War Two. It contains 112 black and white photos and no color ones, 7 maps and 3 data lists.
The black and white photos include:
A photo of Martello Tower on the island of Hoy, WWI German artifacts in a museum, aerial photo of Scapa Flow, an element of the Lynes Base fuel pipeline, a landmark of Orkney – a stack known as the “Old Man”, a monument to Kitchener, an observation point, 5 photos of German U-boat Captain-Lieutenant Günter Prien and 4 photos of his U-47, the remains of a torpedo launched by U-47,German Admiral Karl Donitz, 11 photos of British Captains and sailors, a command tower searchlight building, the Churchill Barrier between Burry & Glumps Holm, Photo of Black Skerry Sound, a gun-emplacement of a twin 57mm & 6 pdr. firing turret, 2 photos of barrage balloons.
Aerial photo of Lynes taken on Oct. 18, 1939, a 94mm anti-aircraft gun, stone mooring anchor used for barrage balloons, a barrage balloon repair center building, a Fordham E817T vehicle used for handing barrage balloons, 2 photos of Fairey Swordfish aircrafts, a storage warehouse, a Bren-gun carrier, a crew manning a 76mm gun, a crew manning a 40mm Bofors gun, a 90mm searchlight, a Blackburn Skua bomber/fighter aircraft, an aerial photo of Holm Sound, the Italian chapel at Camp 60 and its interior, fuel pumps at Lyness fuel depot, stone blocks on the Churchill Barrier, submarine net in Gutter Sound, a sailor with a reindeer, British coastal battery 4.7” quick-firing Mk4 gun, a cemetery for WWI & WWII sailors,
Ships photographed are:
The aircraft-carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship HMS Repulse, battleship HMS King George V, German Hochseeflotte interned at Scapa Flow, Australian Navy heavy-cruiser Australia, battleship HMS Resolution, battleships HMS Nelson, Royal Sovereign, two of the Iron Duke & Renown, seaplane carrier HMS Pegasus, battleship HMS Royal Oak, battleship HMS Norfolk, ships Lycia & ILsen Stein scuttled a Block Sherry Sound, an auxiliary vessel, aircraft carrier HMS Wasp, the foredeck of the HMS Nelson, battleship HMS Rodney, German light-cruiser Konigsberg, Cruiser HMS Edinburgh, heavy-cruiser USS Wichita, battleship HMS Revenge, cruiser HMS Dorsetshire.
A boom & net barrage depot ship, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship with a R class submarine, light-cruiser HMS Belfast, 2 photos of battleship USS Washington, heavy-cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, destroyer HMS Fury, Canadian “four-piper” St. Croix, Destroyer USS Sterett, battleship USS Alabama, submarines HMS Unbroken & Uther, aircraft-carrier HMS Victorious, battleship HMS Renown, aircraft-carrier HMS Wasp, submarine HMS Ultimatum.
Polish Navy ORP Blyakwiza destroyer,escort destroyer ORP Slazak, destroyer ORP Burza, destroyer ORP Blyskawica, destroyer ORP Garland.
Line-drawings of guns include:
A 4.7” quick-firing gun (WWI), a 4.7” quick-firing 4cm Pivot-mount gun (WWII), a 6” Mark 7 breech-loading gun on pedestal Mark 8 mounting (WWII), a 12 pdr. quick-firing Mark 1 (WWII), a twin 6 pdr. quick-firing Mark 1 (WWII). a 2-view (side and top) of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the HMS Nelson in 1940, a 2-view of the HMS Rodney in 1940-42 & 43, a side-view of HMS Royal Oak. No scale is given for these drawings.
The end of the book has a long SHIP NAME INDEX.
This book will be of interest to ship modelers and naval historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the North American distributor of MMP books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Highly recommended.