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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). View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: Friendly (A.)
Price: £18.00
Publisher: 1977,
Seller ID: 1615
362pp, 14 illus, 2 maps, endpaper maps, attractive copy, dw. DNB: (1774-1857), rear-admiral and hydrographer; surveyed entrance to Rio de la Plata, 1807; surveyed coast of Karamania, 1811-12; hydrographer to navy, 1829-55. View more info
By: Gordon (I.)
Price: £19.99
Publisher: 2005,
Seller ID: 5577
xvi + 272pp, 16 plates, 5 maps and plans, dw. Publisher: Admiral John Child Purvis was a contemporary of Nelson.ûNMM, Cat Vol 1, Pt 2, Page 855: Purvis, Adm John Child (b 1746). SeeûMarshall, Lt John: Royal Naval Biography, Vol 1, page 235. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1944,
Seller ID: 9302
unpaginated, 17pp, original green wrappers. SBS: In this pamphlet written in 1944 Grant Robertson writes 'History'ûmay or may not repeat itself, but it only too often confronts a coalitionûat the end of a great war with issues, affecting leading enemyûindividuals, in which policy and law are inextricably intertwined. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 2004, Yale,
Seller ID: 8062
xii + 336pp, 17 illus, 2 maps, text illus, dw. AJS: A modern life of Fitzroy of the Beagle. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: 1973,
Seller ID: 1518
xlv + 463pp, frontis, map, 7 illus, blue cloth. AJS: No 118 in the series. View more info
By: Hardy (S.)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: 2005,
Seller ID: 5513
320pp, 16 illus, 3 maps, dw. AJS: A new biography based on the hundred or so letters she wrote toûNelson. With a foreword by Colin White. View more info
By: Heathcote (T.A.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: 2002,
Seller ID: 4173
320pp, illus, dw. AJS: Outlines the 115 officers who held the rank of Admiral of the Fleetûin the Royal Navy from 1734, when it took its modern form, to 1995, whenûthe last one was appointed. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: 2000,
Seller ID: 3188
443pp, 28 illus, 6 maps, dw. Publisher: His career encompassed every naval conflict since the Second World War, culminating in his role as Chief of Defence Staff during the Falklands War. AJS: An interesting man and a book collector too...the last senior naval officer to buy books from us..modern Admirals do not read apparently. View more info
By: Holmes (M.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1996,
Seller ID: 3668
xiv + 306pp, frontis, 8 illus, 5 maps, dw. Publisher: Augustus Hervey (1724-1779), sailor, philanderer andûpolitician. View more info
By: Huddart (W.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1989,
Seller ID: 626
viii + 200pp, 17 illus (inc plans and sketches), dw. AJS: Captain Huddart (1741-1816), an expert in navigation, his advice wasûsought in the formation of the East India Dock Co. He also invented steamûdriven machinery for laying up rope. View more info
By: James (W.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1956,
Seller ID: 664
190pp, 8 illus, dw. Marder: A short authorised biography of an almost legendary characterûwhose service career spanned the years 1878-1927. Based on the Admiral'sûpost-war recollections. View more info
Price: £250.00
Publisher: 1901, 1st ed,
Seller ID: 5169
xx + 304pp, frontis, 11 illus, 5 maps (4 folding), original decorated pale blue cloth, some slight wear to binding. AJS: A standard account of the involvement of the naval brigades in the South African War. The illustrations show the 4.7in naval gun in use on the improvised gun carriage, this inspired William Britain to create the toy gun that became a great success. There was a second edition in 1902. View more info
By: Jones (T.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1988,
Seller ID: 3699
252pp, 15 illus, 3 maps, endpaper illus, dw. AJS: More tales from this master mariner. View more info
By: Kendal (F.R.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1987,
Seller ID: 7921
46pp, 7 illus, original pictorial laminated wrappers. AJS: Issued by P&O to celebrate their time in business, 1837-1987.ûKendall served with the company in India, Singapore, Hong Kong andûAustralia and sent regular letters home describing his experiences. View more info
By: Kerslake (S.A.)
Price: £13.00
Publisher: 1984,
Seller ID: 754
(x), 191pp, 48 illus, dw. AJS: The author took part in Convoys PQ17, QP14 and JW51B. He later servedûin the clandestine small boat organisation at Algiers, the African CoastalûFlotilla. View more info
By: Keyes (Admiral of the Fleet Sir R.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: 1939 rp 1973,
Seller ID: 836
374pp, 34 illus, 7 maps, dw. AJS: Roger Keyes..his early life in the Royal Navy, anti-slavery patrols,ûat Relief of Peking. The work ends in 1906. View more info