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Conway Maritime, London, 2007, first edition, 208 p. ill. b/w photos, ship's lines, 27 cm. very good, very good minus slight tear repaired. Features articles on Girdle Ness, Pear Harbor, Nathaniel Barnaby, Italian Navy air arm, Japanese destroyers, Iéna disaster 1907, Novorossiisk.Heavy may require extra postage.

Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2019, Conrad Waters ed. 192 p. ill. b/w, col..Fine/fine. The world fleet reviews, significant ship designs and technology.

Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1979, first edition, ill. b/w 192 p. includes index.Very good, very good corners slight wear. First class photo record, many detailed, carefully explicit drawings. This book is a detailed comparison between British and American destroyer armament. From the guns, torpedoes and ASW weapons including the mountings, directors, fire control and electronics. Excellent detail… Read more

McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, ON 1987, first edition, xiv, 285 p., includes index and notes; decorated boards, fine. This work presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertain legacy of organization and role and contemporary challenges arising from overseas developments and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organizations and… Read more

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1990, 1st US edition, 127 p. ill. b/w photographs and plans with lines and details. Very good, very good mylar. The destroyer Campbeltown is not only famous for her part in the commando raid on the St. Naziare drydock in 1942, but it also representative on an important type. Built as the USS Buchanan… Read more

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987, 3rd imp. xvi, 324 p. : ill. b/w lines. photos, folded graph of displacement and curves in back pocket, includes an index. Very good. Covers such topics as ship geometry, properties of shipbuilding materials, stability, submarine hydrostatics, propulsion systems, and maneuverability. Heavy may require extra postage.

Halton & Company Limited, London, 1926. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Limited edition no. 408 of 1500. Large Quarto. xiv p., 1 l., 78 p., 1 l. col. mounted front., illus., 90 pl. (1 fold., part col. mounted). A fine volume, containing text on the ships of the early nineteenth-century navy, and ninety stunning plates (selected from the collection of… Read more

Sampson Low, 1965, 461 p. 60 p.advert., ill. of ships b/w photos. in this issue a build up of attack vessels and missile carriers. Includes index. fair with wear to bds, Heavy will require extra postage.

Conway, London, 2014, no. 36 in series. 208 p., illustrated b/w line drawings and photographs. Good plus, slight skewing, dust jacket good slight wear to top. Features articles on Admiral Charner class, CVA-01, Braunschweig and Deutschland classes, Armoured cruisers IJN, Cavour carrier for Italian Navy, Admiral Lazarev and Admiral Spiridov classes, IJN light carrier Ryûjô, fire control in RN, and… Read more

The Boston Mill Press, Ontario, 1897. 29 x 23 cm. 336 p. Includes Illustrations. The first five chapters of this book are a narrative glossary of carrier operations. In the pages that follow, recollections by shipmates have been interwoven to give an easy flow. The main commentary has been given over to her Captains, who were less compartmentalized than the… Read more

Volume 1 and Volume 2. These two volumes cover the career histories of all of the U-boats that were commissioned in World War II. The histories of home 1, 200 vessels are covered. Each entry gives locations and dates of units which with the boat served, her commanders, the number of patrols undertaken, ships sunk along with names of vessels… Read more

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1984, : 256 p. : ill. b/w and col., maps, 31 cm includes index. very good/very good. An abridged version of the author's The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783 combined with extracts from The influence of sea power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812. Heavy will require additional postage.

This is the is the culmination of thirty-seven years' work by H.Trevor Lenton, an experienced naval officer and well recognized historian, covering 20,000 ships and containing 634 photographs. It weighs over 2 Kg and will incur additional shipping costs. It's near fine quality is marred only by the owner's signature (he was a senior Canadian officer and naval pilot) mostly… Read more

Appleton, New York 1901, 3rd ed. of Volume one. top edge gilt, pages uncut, ill. b/w plates, sketches, maps. xl. 660 p. Very good with minor wear to corners and edges of spine.This edition written following the war with Spain. The history covered is the revolutionary war, wars with France and Tripoli and the War of… Read more

Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1971, 1st ed. 176 p. ill. b/w photos. Very good/good + price clipped, slight yellowing. The French navy is the early days of World War Two and then the activities of the sailors working with De Gaulle. Describes the losses which took place and documents the fleet at the beginning of the war.

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2015, first ed. xiii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, includes index. fine/very good. The alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet when by the mid 1930s, both fleets had overextended themselves with global defense commitments, owing mainly to the collapse of the world war alliances and to an ominous… Read more

Ian Allan, London, 1972, 1st ed. 160 p.with 48 pages of photographs includes index. Very good/very good mylar. WWII escort carrier ships. During the Second World War the British needed a platform for planes to use for protection of the convoy fleets moving goods. They converted captured German merchant ships and added decks for take off. Then the pilots were… Read more

.Conway Maritime Press, London, limited first edition 1009/2000, ill. b/w, 224 p., includes index. fine/fine. Part of the series 'Conway's history of the Ship'. This edition discusses warships operating above and below the surface have needed increased endurance and long range capability. These aspects have affected the new designs and power the ships. The ships of a more traditional design,… Read more

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1980, 1st ed. xi, 391 p. 7 folding plates of designs, ill. b/w, 29 cm. includes index, very good/near fine in mylar. Devoted entirely to describing the Allied WWII battleships from the standpoint of design development, construction and operational careers. Covers: Dunkerque class; Richelieu Class; the Netherlands design 1047; King George V class; Lion… Read more

viii, 374 p. ; ill. ports, plans (some fold.), diags. The author was Master Shipwright at Brest, and in 1737 was ordered by the French Minister of the Navy to go to England and Holland to study the construction of their ships of war. His highly detailed report, never before published, and here translated and edited by David Roberts provides… Read more