Battleship Nelson, The Story of HMS Nelson, Richard Careless, 1985

Sad on the author's parents for not changing their surname...?

Purchased from a Brit bookseller by a son-in-law (ah, the wonders of modern e-commerce) in honour of the new 1/200 scale kit of the only battleship class personally found fascinating-irresistable. Well-done and quite interesting little tome with some tasty, previously unpublished photos.

'Would have really liked and been willing to pay double, had the author also chronicled the life of Nelson's sister ship, HMS Rodney.

As a matter of historical interest, 74 years, 2 days ago, HMS Rodney terribly punished the German battleship Bismarck with 40+ direct hits from her 16-inch guns, near 100 from her 6" secondary battery and put a torpedo into the dying Bismarck, the only time a battleship torpedoed one of its own kind.