IAN BUXTON is a naval architect with a lifetime's experience in the shipbuilding industry and, latterly, in higher education at the University of Newcastle. He is perhaps best known for Big Gun Monitors. He also co-authored The Battleship Builders with IAN JOHNSTON, who is a well-known authority on Clydeside shipbuilding and the historian of both John Brown's and Beardmore's. His training as a graphic designer is to be seen in the superb choice of photographs in Clydebank Battlecruisers and A Shipyard at War.