HMS Victory: An insight into owning, operating and maintaining the Royal Navy's oldest and most famous warship Hardcover – 13 Mar. 2015

I brought this for a friend, who is making a model of HMS Victory, to help him with the detailing and he cannot sing it's praises enough. It's answered all his questions and several more he'd yet to think of. Apparently just about every square inch of the ship is covered in the closed detail. That detail is mainly as to how she looks now but references are made to things that have changed since Nelsons day and how they would have appeared then and at other times in between then and now. I had it in my possession a week or so before presenting it to him and on the occasions I glanced through it, I to was taken by the level of detail this tinny volume goes into. These Haynes books are a bit of a lucky dip ranging from poor to very good and this, would appear on first examination, to be one of the very better ones.

Lovely book but the author seems to have a fixation in illustrations of the stern of the Victory. Could have been so much more with a little imagination.

Haynes manuals are normally really good but I found this one rather hard work. All the info is there but the layout and order is a bit all over the place. I think Haynes need to remember that unlike their car books, these are for interest and not a reference manual.

This is a great book on both the history of the ship and its construction. For anyone interested in the ship or buiding one of the many available construction kits available, this is a superb addition.

Bought as a christmas present for my husband. When asked what he thought of it he replied 'It's all right.' This is Yorkshire for 'I really like it.' It kept him quiet for ages, he is an engineer and was very happy with the technical drawings and descriptions.

This book is brilliant and goes into more detail than I had expected about the history and maintenance of the ship. It was received in a timely manner and was of new quality.

Bought this for my dad, as he is building a model Victory and he has found it very useful with pictures and information to help his build

Excellent book, very detailed, lots of illustrations. Highly recommend if you want to research HMS Victory's history and possible model build supplement.