New Review for Leith Built Ships, Vol II

 Hi all,

Pleased to say that some nice reviews are still being received and appreciated for my books both non fiction and for my novels (more about them later).

The latest review from Julian Stockwin who has his own review Blog at 

 The BigJules Blog | Julian Stockwin | '…unforgettable historical fiction…'

Well Jules has this to say and I quote as follows-

Leith-Built Ships Volume 2 by R O Neish

I launched my naval career as a seagoing shipwright, so my interest in historical accounts of shipbuilding is not surprising. Scotland has a long proud history of this activity, most recently centred on the west, the Clyde in particular, but many people are unaware of the part played by the shipbuilders of Leith, in the east of Scotland. Leith had begun building ships some 400 years before the great shipyards of the Clyde and these vessels reached all corners of the globe. With a pedigree of shipbuilding second to none going back over 660 years of recorded history, the ships built at Leith deserve their place in history and this book, the second of a trilogy, continues the story focusing on the period 1918-1939. Among the fascinating tales is the launch then tragic loss of the largest sailing ship ever built in a British shipyard, the five-masted auxiliary barque Kobenhavn.