This book covers a wide spectrum: from industrial relations to shipyard modernisation and from contract negotiation through to ship design it has been pleasurable reading. With the author’s light hand and wide knowledge, we are introduced to some hardly known aspects of shipbuilding history and entertained by delightful anecdotes of shipyard and personal family life. This book is a tour de force to be recommended for every maritime library.

From a review of the book by Fred M Walker, formerly a Consultant Naval Architect, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.