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Invergordon Scapegoat. The Betrayal of Admiral Tomkinson.

By: Coles (A.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1993,

Seller ID: 89

x + 193pp, 30 illus, dw. AJS: Tomkinson dealt 'on site' with the mutineers at Invergordon inû1931... after the event he was much criticised for his mild treatment ofûthe sailors... this is his biography.
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Fields of Fire A Life of Sir William Hamilton.

By: Constantine (D.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 2001,

Seller ID: 4541

xxvii + 324pp, 27 illus, dw. AJS: Diplomat, art-collector, naturalist, musician and scholar. Husband ofûEmma Hamilton and yet friend of Lord Nelson.
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Submariner.

By: Coote (Capt J.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1991,

Seller ID: 3661

xii + 239pp, 40 illus, dw. AJS: Served with the famous 10th flotilla in the Mediterranean in WW2.
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My Naval Life 1885-1941.

By: Cork & Orrery (Ad of the Fleet the Earl.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: 1942,

Seller ID: 5248

208pp, frontis, 17 illus, endpaper maps, dark blue cloth. Marder: Well described as a straight forward story, told with many touches of humour, of a straight forward naval life.
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Cox and the Juju Coast A Journal Kept Aboard HMS Fly 1868-69.

By: Cox (J.G.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1968,

Seller ID: 3830

xxvi + 88pp, frontis, 5 plates, 22 sketches, folding plate, endpaper maps,ûoriginal pictorial boards. AJS: HMS Fly, twin screw, composite gunboat off the West coast of Africaûin 1869.
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Steel's List of the Royal Navy Ships Commanders & Stations 1793-1805.

By: Cripps (Prof D.)

Price: £225.00

Publisher: 2004, Madison, privately published,

Seller ID: 11295

12 + 19 + 20 + 20 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 22 + 26 + 17 + 18 + 27 + 27pp, eachûsection with its own title page, substantial format (18.5cm x 22cm), darkûblue cloth as issued. AJS: Covers twelve years. The material for this work was compiled from theûoriginal Steel's monthly Lists of Ships, Guns, Year Built or Taken,ûStations and Commanders, with added dates that include the beginning andûend of their Commission i.e. 08/93-12/07 is August 1793-December 1807.
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War at Sea A Canadian Seaman on the North Atlantic.

By: Curry (F.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1990, Toronto,

Seller ID: 8772

x + 147pp, 39 illus, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Life of an ordinary seaman in HHCS Kamsack and Caraquet in WW2.
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The Sea is Strong.

By: De Chair (Ad D.)

Price: £16.00

Publisher: 1961,

Seller ID: 5245

248pp, fronits, 9 illus, 2 maps, 2 facsims, dw. Marder: Except perhaps for the story of Jellicoe's dismissal in December 1917, this autobiography of an admiral who made his mark as Commander of the Northern Patrol in 1914-16 is not very revealing or interesting.
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Watch on Deck.

By: Dearden (Cdr R.L.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1934 rp 1935,

Seller ID: 7357

(viii), 246pp, portrait frontis, 7 illus, small format, pale blue cloth. AJS: Served in sail and steam before joining the Royal Navy just before WW1.
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Dardanelles a Midshipman's Journal.

By: Denham (H.M.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1981,

Seller ID: 760

200pp, 130 illus and maps, dw. AJS: Denham was a midshipman on HMS Agamemnon when he was sent out toûGallipoli in WW1, this account is from the diary he kept at the time.
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The Quicksilver Doctor The Life and Times of Thomas Dover Physician and Adventurer.

By: Dewhurst (K.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1957,

Seller ID: 2815

ix + 192pp, 12 plates, original black cloth. AJS: Born 1662, privateer, circumnavigated the globe, rescued AlexanderûSelkirk (Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe').
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Hen Frigates Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail.

By: Druett (J.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1998,

Seller ID: 3674

274pp, frontis, 125 illus, dw. Publisher: "Hen Frigate", traditionally, was any ship with the captain'sûwife on board. This is a study of the period 1830-1900.
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Naval Commissioners From 12 Charles 11, to 1 George III 1660-1760, Compiled from Original Warrants and Returns, By the Late Sir George Jackson, Bart, Secretary of the Admiralty, and Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, With Historical Notes by His Grandson Sir G.F. Duckett, Bart.

By: Duckett (Sir G.F.)

Price: £175.00

Publisher: 1889,

Seller ID: 52

(printed for the author), ii + 148pp, original decorated blue cloth. Pargellis, entry 1669: With biographical notes.ûAJS: Drawn up probably about 1755 by the late Sir George (then Mr.)ûJackson at one time Secretary of the Admiralty.
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The Portsmouth Papers No 17. Captain John Mason and the Duke of Buckingham.

By: Dymond (D.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1972,

Seller ID: 10679

21pp, 7 illus, printed paper wrappers.
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Some Famous Privateers of New England.

By: Eastman (R.M.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1928, Boston,

Seller ID: 8776

vii + 87pp, frontis, 46 illus, pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
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The Life and Adventures of John Nicol Mariner.

By: Flannery (T.) Editor.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1822 rp 1997,

Seller ID: 3680

(vi), 198pp, frontis, map, an attractive copy in original dw. AJS: John Nicol (1755-1825) sailed on voyages to the West Indies,ûGreenland, South Pacific, China, Australia and the Mediterranean.
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My Life and a Few Yarns.

By: Fleet (Ad H.L.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: 1922,

Seller ID: 7026

343pp, frontis, original black cloth. SBS: The autobiography of Vice Admiral H.L. Fleet, CBE, (1850-1923).
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Personal Reminiscences.

By: Forbes (R.B.) RP

Price: £14.00

Publisher: 1882 rp 1970,

Seller ID: 831

xii + 420pp, 4 illus, decorated cloth. Albion, page 75: He was a versatile Boston mariner-merchant who served atûCanton in the tea trade, dabbled in steam, took a warship toûfamine-stricken Ireland with relief grain, and agitated for safety at sea.
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The Adventures of John Wetherell.

By: Forester (C.S.) Editor.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1954 rp 1994,

Seller ID: 1411

275pp, stiff paper covers. Publisher: Edited by C.S.Forester, the creator of Hornblower, this is theûlively diary of a British seaman who was impressed into the Royal Navy toûfight the French at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Sailor's Soliloquy.

By: Frewen (O.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1961,

Seller ID: 8113

260pp, frontis, 14 illus, dw. SBS: Son of one of the famous Jerome sisters and thus a first cousinûWinston Churchill. Frewen joined the Royal Navy and served as aûMidshipmanon HMS Bulwark, the Mediterranean fagship. Although the authorûdied in 1958, he only completed this memoir up to 1910, the end ofûthe Edwardian era and its society of which he was a part.ûMarder: Frewen's memoir of his early years in the Navy, 1887-1910, basedûon his diaries. A valuable and entertaining picture of the Navy in the eraûof the Fisher Revolution by a talented young officer.
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