Oh I doubt it’s out of print….or even the book you’re thinking of…..this one was published in England in 2005 and is called ‘The world encyclopedia of Battleships’ by Peter Hore…and it DOES include the HMS Agincourt, a rather impressive looking ship by standards of that time…tho I don’t recall reading anything about it firing all it’s guns at once (have to look again)…she DID carry seven gun turrets all named after days of the week! Lots of good, if brief, material in this book which gives me good reference material on the subject when I need it (but some of the photos need the captions revised….one chapter on WWII starts out with a photo of a line of battleships coming at you and the caption says they are Japanese, which they most definitely are NOT…)

Mark

Well then It’s not the book that I had by Siegfried Breyer “Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970″, But of course It was the one I was refering to of course, It’s about 2” or so thick.

Heck I was looking for that title and look what I found:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashi-ta/aki_f.htm
She had 20″ guns, But was just an 8,500 ton monitor.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashi-ta/furamain.htm

This website doesn’t like the link cause of part of a Japanese name, So I had to stick a hyphen in It, Copy and paste them into the url bar and remove It to use It. 🙁