Priced at £19:99 the book contains 320 pages, well in excess of 100,000 words and around 200 photographs.

It is, without question, the most comprehensive history of submarine construction at the Barrow Shipyard ever to be published.
It lists every submarine built at Barrow-in-Furness from the “Nordenfelt” in 1886 through to the current “Astute” class and charts the development of the Yard’s involvement in submarine manufacture from its early beginnings through to the present day.

The book covers and an extract from the rear can be viewed below.

The shipbuilding works at Barrow-in-Furness has been the hub of the Royal Navy's submarine-building programme for more than a century.  Founded in 1871 by the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. Ltd (BSCL), submarine construction commenced at Barrow in 1888 with the building of two submarine boats for the Swedish armament entrepreneur Nordenfelt.  However, construction of the two Nordenfelts appeared to do little to excite public interest, the new-fangled boats being considered novelties at best.     Despite British criticism, the building of submarines soon became the pursuit of other nations.  By 1899 the Admiralty were holding discussions with the Holland Torpedo Boat Co. in respect to boat construction.      Damned Un-English Machines gives an objective account of Barrow's submarine building history across three centuries, as well as an encyclopaedic listing of statistics for all submarines launched,or committed to water at the Barrow Shipyard.      The comprehensive treatment of the subject, including references to commercial 'mini-subs', First and Second World War German submarines subject to conversion/experiment, the reactivation of the Canadian Upholder Class and the aim of BAE (the yard's present owner) to make the Shipyard a Submarine Center of Excellence, provides an exceptional narrative that will become a valuable reference in the future.

Book Cover Front

Book Cover Rear

Damned Un-English Machines ISBN No:- 0-7524-2781-4