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Honours and Awards Canadian Naval Forces World War II.

By: Paquette (Lt Cdr E.R.) & Bainbridge (Lt C.G.)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: ND 1965,

Seller ID: 8779

(vii), 600 + 34 + 53 + 3pp, large format (26.5cm x 21cm), printed stiffûpaper wrappers. AJS: A standard reference giving the name, rank, ship, award, date, withûany previous award, along with the citation for over 2000 individuals.ûThis work was published in a limited numbered edition of 500 copies, thisûbeing No 336.
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The Journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822-1863) United States Navy.

By: Peterson (M.L.) Editor.

Price: £14.00

Publisher: 1959,

Seller ID: 1386

iv + 268pp, 23 illus, original brown cloth. AJS: Journal of a cruise off the Brazils on board of the U.S. shipûDelaware, 1841-1842 and notes by the way while on board the U.S. schoonerûEnterprise. (sub title).
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A Thirst for Glory. The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.

By: Pocock (T.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1996,

Seller ID: 1107

xx + 261pp, 19 illus, 2 maps, endpaper map, dw. AJS: A new life of this remarkable man, a rival of Nelson.
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Captain Marryat Seaman, Writer and Adventurer.

By: Pocock (T.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: 2000,

Seller ID: 3086

208pp, 29 illus, dw. AJS: By the author of Remember Nelson, The Young Nelson in the Americas,ûNelson's Women, etc.
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Captain William Scoresby 1760-1829 Whitby's Most Successful Whaler.

By: Preston (C.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1964 rp 1972, Whitby,

Seller ID: 9572

24pp, 8 illus, printed stiff paper wrappers. AJS: By the former Curator of the Cook and Scoresby Wings of the WhitbyûMuseum.
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The Log of a Forty-Niner Journal of a Voyage from Newbury-Port to San Francisco in the Brig General Worth Commanded by Capt Samuel Walton Kept by Richard L. Hale Newbury, Mass.

By: Russ (C.H.)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: 1923, Boston,

Seller ID: 9632

183pp, portrait frontis, 17 illus, decorated green cloth, dw. AJS: Being the record of adventures by sea and shore to the California Goldfields and the Pacific North West, 1849-1854. Illustrated from original sketches by the author. Edited from original manuscripts.
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Memoirs of Jocelyn Fitzgerald Ruthven 1849-1943 Master Mariner Cadet HMS "Conway" School Ship, 1864-1865.

By: Ruthven (Capt J.F.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: 1949, Ipswich,

Seller ID: 9154

xv + 161pp, frontis, 13 illus, dark blue cloth, dw. AJS: With a foreword by Sir Alan Anderson. Capt Ruthven was for many years Commodore of the Orient Line and finally retired in 1911. He saw service in WWI as captain of the Ophir and lived to the age of 94.
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From the Forecastle to the Cabin.

By: Samuels (Capt S.) RP

Price: £16.00

Publisher: 1887 rp 1970,

Seller ID: 840

xviii + 308pp, 24 illus, decorated cloth. Albion, page 77: Lively range of experiences, losing nothing in theûtelling..ranging from service as a boy on a Philadelphia collier, toûcommand of a clipper packet.
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Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan.

By: Seager (R.) & Maguire (D.D.)

Price: £95.00

Publisher: 1975,

Seller ID: 594

three volumes, large format (24cm x 20cm), a substantial production,ûoriginal grey cloth, in grey cloth slipcase (heavy set).û(1) 1847-1889, xvii + 718pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus.û(2) 1890-1901, xiii + 745pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus.û(3) 1902-1914, xiii + 873pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus. AJS: Monumental production. The letters of the author of such works asûThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History, The Life of Nelson, etc, etc.,ûNB: A heavy set that may require additional postage depending on theûdestination, please check with me before ordering.
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The Privateering Earl. George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605.

By: Spence (R.T.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1995,

Seller ID: 1545

vx + 256pp, frontis, 6 colour illus, half title illus, 52 illus, 2ûgenealogical tables, 9 tables, 3 maps, dw. AJS: The first scholarly biography of this subject for seventy five years.
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William Scoresby Arctic Scientist.

By: Stamp (T.) & (C.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: 1975,

Seller ID: 1225

xii + 253pp, 19 illus, dw. DNB: Born 1789, served at sea under his father 1800-1806; with fleet atûCopenhagen 1807; served as Captain in Greenland Fishery and made severalûscientific observations; various appointemnts to 1839, thence to Australiaû1839-47 to carry out magnetic observations, published scientific worksûrelating chiefly to the Arctic Seas, died ;857.
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An Uncommon Sailor A Portrait of Sir William Penn. English Naval Supremacy.

By: Street (L.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: 1986,

Seller ID: 3682

(viii), 172pp, dw. AJS: The founder of Pennsylvania.
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Tyrwhitt of the Harwich Force.

By: Temple Patterson (A.)

Price: £18.00

Publisher: 1973,

Seller ID: 767

xiv + 336pp, 17 illus, map, black cloth, dw. AJS: Commanded Destroyer Flotillas at outbreak of WW1, invented theûcarrier, helped settle the Invergordon Mutiny, highly influential in anûera of change.
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Wolf U-Boat Commanders in World War 11.

By: Vause (J.)

Price: £18.00

Publisher: 1997,

Seller ID: 3378

xi + 249pp, 27 illus, dw. Publisher: Drawing on a wealth of primary sources. This book examines theûlives of a number of U-Bootwaffe officers, including the famous and theûnot so well known.
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Drie 17e-Eeuwse Admiraals. Piet Heyn, Witte de With, Jan Evertsen.

By: Warnsinck (J.C.M.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: 1977, Rotterdam,

Seller ID: 8790

141pp, 4 illus, folding chart, pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
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Random Recollections.

By: Warwick (W.C.)

Price: £16.00

Publisher: 1957,

Seller ID: 7379

65pp, portrait frontis, decorated black cloth. AJS: A memoir of his time in the shipping world from 1895 to 1945, his career as a director with Houlder Brothers and Royal Mail Lines.
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Hawkins of Plymouth A New History of Sir John Hawkins and Other Members of His Family Prominent in Tudor England.

By: Williamson (J.A.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1969, 2nd ed,

Seller ID: 786

xi + 348pp, 16 illus, 3 maps, dw. Preface: This book records the history of the Hawkins family in TudorûEngland. Although Sir John Hawkins is its chief subject, his fatherûWilliam Hawkins, his brother, also William Hawkins, and his son SirûRichard Hawkins, were all prominent in the story of the time, and theirûcareers are here narrated.
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Seaman Garneray Voyages, Aventures et Combat.

By: Wilson (R.) Translator.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: 2003,

Seller ID: 6502

285pp, 42 illus, map, advert, dw. AJS: Louis Garneray joined the Republican navy in 1796 at the age ofûthirteen. Three years later he was a member of the crew of the famousûFrench privateer Robert Surcouf, operating in the Indian Ocean. He wasûcaptured in 1806 and spent the next eight years on the prison hulks inûPortsmouth harbour. Translated from the French.
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