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3.0 out of 5 stars a potentially excellent book spoiled by sloppy research, 2 Jan 2000

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The Clyde,Portrait of a River,is well laid out, readable, and profusely illustrated. It should be an excellent publication for anyone with an interest in the river, especially ship buffs like myself, for the history of the river's role in world shipbuilding has received much less coverage than it deserves. However, it doesn't take an expert to see the flaws in the book, which can only be put down to sloppy research. There are a number of glaring examples which spring to mind. The cruiser HMS Bermuda never carried a five-inch secondary armament; this was an American calibre. British cruisers carried four-inch secondary armament. If that seems like nit-picking, a photograph of a post-WWII Tiger-class cruiser is captioned as a WWI battlecruiser, while the battlecruiser HMS Repulse is captioned as a battleship. The battleship Barham is described as having been mined and towed to port upside down. She wasn't mined -she was torpedoed by a U-boat and blew up and sank in probably the most dramatic pieces of film of the second world war-in these circumstances she couldn't have been towed anywhere. I gave up believing that anything in the book could possibly be relied on as factual. Properly revised, this would be a worthwhile publication. As it stands, it's a waste of money.

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