British Battleships and Aircraft Carriers (Navies of the Second World War)

H.T. Lenton has done an excellent job with this handbook of the hardware available for the Royal Navy in WWII. While there are no deck plans, and only one outboard profile [the "Lion" class], the complex treatment of the capital ships and escort carriers, is reasonably thorough, which was difficult, owing to the format and cost of the book. Well worth the money I paid for it fifty years ago!