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SKUA: The Royal Navy's Dive-Bomber
by Peter Smith
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Weight: 1.59 pound
Dimension: H: 1.34 x L: 9.21 x W: 6.38 inches
ISBN 10: 1844154556
ISBN 13: 9781844154555
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Book Description:
The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy's desire for a carrier based dive bomber and RAF's preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in Norway found the type woefully inadequate as a fighter.

As a dive bomber, the Royal Navy put the design to good use from the outset of WWII. It was involved with the hunt for the Graff Spee, sunk the major warship Koln, suffered with great loss in an attack on the Scharnhorst, helped to keep the German advance at bay during the Dunkirk evacuation and attacked the French rogue battleship Richelieu in the Mediterranean.

This book relates how the final design was created, how the dive bombing technique was developed and perfected by naval pilots and traces the wartime operational career of the type with many first hand accounts.

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