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By Joseph T. Downey Ordinary Seaman, USN. The Cruise of the Portsmouth A Sailor's View of the Naval Conquest of California 1845-1847.

By: Lamar (H.R.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1958, Yale,

Seller ID: 8789

xxi + 246pp, 6 maps, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Downey's journal presents a lively and uninhibted account of theûseizure of San Francisco, where he went ashore as Washington Bartlett'sûclerk, and Stockton's overland march from San Diego to recapture LosûAngeles, with the battles of La Mesa and San Gabriel.
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The Falklands and the Dwarf The Cruise of HMS Dwarf in the Falkland Islands 1881-1882.

By: Layman (Rear Ad C.H.) & Cameron (J.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1995,

Seller ID: 3551

xiv + 160pp, 73 illus (photos, facsims, maps), endpaper illus, dw. AJS: Based on the letters of the Cdr Sir William Wiseman commanding officer of HMS Dwarf, a Victorian gunboat sent out to enforce a conservation regime on brutal and unprincipled sealers.
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Precursors of Nelson British Admirals in the Eighteenth Century.

By: Le Fevre (P.) & Harding (R.) Editors.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 2000,

Seller ID: 3114

provisional details, 416pp, 16 illus, dw. AJS: Studies by various authors of..Torrington, Rooke, Shovell, Byng,ûNorris, Wager, Vernon, Anson, Hawke, Rodney, Howe, Hood, Barham, StûVincent, Cornwallis, and Keith.
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William Diaper a Bigraphical Sketch.

By: Legge (C.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1966,

Seller ID: 10716

extract, pp79-90, in printed grey paper wrappers. AJS: Reprinted from the Journal of Pacific History. A commentary onûDiaper's life as author of Jackson's Narrative (1850) and Cannibal Jackû(1889).
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James Toutant Proctor.

By: Legge (C.) & Terrell (J.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1970,

Seller ID: 10717

extract, pp65-83, in printed grey paper wrappers. AJS: Reprinted from the Journal of Pacific History. Proctor's main claimûto fame (and there were many) was as a recruiting agent in the NewûHebrides labour trade in the 1860s.
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Sir Francis Drake.

By: Lloyd (C.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1957,

Seller ID: 8775

144pp, map, pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
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Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders Illustrated by Engravings from Original Pictures in The Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital.

By: Locker (E.H.)

Price: £225.00

Publisher: 1832,

Seller ID: 306

(vi), 12 + 13 + 19 + 13 + 13 + 11 + 15 + 11 + 16 + 12 + 8 + 11 + 16 + 13 +û22 + 41 + 8 + 3 + 15 + 12pp, 20 engraved plates (mainly portraits), largeûformat (26cm x 19cm), in later (1970s) pale blue cloth, paper label toûspine, an attractive copy. AJS: Plates of Howard, Blake, Monk, Montague, Rooke, Benbow, Russell, Byng,ûHawke, Saunders, Kempenfelt, Bridport, Cook, Barrington, Collingwood,ûLocker, with views of Harry Grace ... Dieue, Defeat of Spanish Armada,ûGlorious First of June, Nile.ûRodger: Eccentric production by a retired admiral's secretary, based onûhis extensive collection o...
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Reminiscences of a Sailor.

By: Lord (Capt W.R.)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: 1894,

Seller ID: 4759

xv + 308pp, portrait frontis, coloured endpapers, decorated red cloth. AJS: William R. Lord, Shipmaster, to sea in the 1860s.
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Queen's Company The Autobiography of Commodore Donald MacLean DSC, RD, RNR.

By: MacLean (D.)

Price: £16.00

Publisher: 1965 rev ed 1966,

Seller ID: 5904

228pp, original red cloth, dw. SBS: Captain of the Queens in the 1960s.
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Fear God and Dread Nought The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone.

By: Marder (A.J.) Editor. Set

Price: £225.00

Publisher: 1953-1959,

Seller ID: 1174

three volume set complete as noted, original red cloth (heavy set).û(1) The Making of an Admiral 1854-1904. 1952, 377pp, frontis, 5 illus.û(2) Years of Power 1904-1914. 1956, 521pp, frontis, illus.û(3) Restoration, Abdication and Last Years 1914-1920. 1959, 661pp, frontis,û5 illus. Marder: The selected and annotated correspondence with biographical essaysûprefacing each section.
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Memoirs of a Victorian Master Mariner. By Captain Hilary Marquand.

By: Marquand (E.B.) Editor.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1996,

Seller ID: 3690

xxxiv + 274pp, 22 illus, dw. AJS: Born in Guernsey in 1824, he went to sea and by 1849 had command ofûhis own ship. Thence to Cardiff where he became a successful ship-broker.
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A Family Man at Sea "My Dearest Margaret" Letters Home from a Mediterranean Flagship 1837-41.

By: McDowell (B.)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: 2013, Leominster,

Seller ID: 10406

xvi + 205pp, 8 colour illus, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: In July 1837 a British Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir RobertûStopford set sail for a three-year tour of duty in the Mediterranean. Onûboard the flagship, the Princess Charlotte, serving as Secretary to theûAdmiral, was John Loudon, whose 220 letters to his wife in Plymouthûprovide a fascinating and intimate picture of the routines and dramas ofûlife on a man-of-war during a little know period of British naval history.ûLoudon describes his close relationship with the Admiral and otherûofficers, the social life in M...
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The Diaries of Pte Horace Bruckshaw 1915-1916.

By: Middlebrook (M.) Editor.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1970,

Seller ID: 897

xxiii + 229pp, 17 illus, map, small format, dw. AJS: Diary of a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry who fought atûGallipoli and died on the western front.
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From Ship's-Boy to Skipper.

By: Moffat (H.Y.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: 1909,

Seller ID: 8926

309pp, frontis, 3 illus, original red cloth. SBS: His adventures aboard merchant ships 1857-1905, including interesting descriptions of life in Australia, India the Chincha Islands etc.
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Fisher's Face. or, Getting to Know the Admiral.

By: Morris (J.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1995, New York,

Seller ID: 11

(vi), 300pp, frontis portrait, dw. AJS: A well received work from this noted travel writer.
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Life of Robert Napier of West Shandon.

By: Napier (J.)

Price: £85.00

Publisher: 1904, Edinburgh,

Seller ID: 2624

xiv + 267pp, photogravure frontis, 38 illus, original decorated green cloth. AJS: A standard life of the Clyde shipbuilder.
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China Station 1859-1864 The Reminiscences of Walter White.

By: NMM Monograph No 3. May (Cdr W.E.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: 1972,

Seller ID: 7969

iii + 56pp, frontis, chart, 4 illus, folding plate, large format (30cm xû21cm), pictorial paper wrappers. AJS: Recollections of a sailor's life in India, China, Japan, SouthûAmerica, Borneo, Sumatra, etc.
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Life on the Ocean: Being Sketches of Personal Experience in the United States Naval Service, the American and British Merhant Marine, and the Whaling Service.

By: Nordhoff (C.) RP

Price: £25.00

Publisher: 1874 rp 1974,

Seller ID: 1807

(viii), 288pp, 28 illus, decorated blue cloth. Alibion, page 54: Valuable because of one man's opportunity to compare atûfirst hand the way of life in those different services.ûPublisher: He served in the US Navy, the British Merchant Marine, and inûthe whaling fleet. He relates his experiences in lively narrative, wellûworth reading for those who want a true picture of life in any of theseûspheres.
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The Cornish Captain's Tale.

By: O'Toole (L.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: 1986, Redruth,

Seller ID: 8847

181pp, frontis, 13 illus, map, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: The life of Rear Admiral Sir Richard Spry.
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Elijah Cobb, Cape Cod Skipper 1768-1848.

By: Paine (R. ed) RP

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 1925 rp 1970,

Seller ID: 863

112pp, frontis, decorated cloth. AJS: Journal kept during the era of the French Revolution.ûPublisher: This is the journal of a Cape Cod skipper who flourished duringûthe period of the French Revolution. The events described typify theûadventures of American sailing vessels of the time and throw light uponûtheir role in international trade. The account links the adventures andûcommercial enterprises of Elijah Cobb in very readable prose.
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