Search Results: Titles starting with B from Naval Marine Archive

Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, xxxix, 628 p., b/w map, includes index and select bibliography. This book contains the U-boats situations and trends by the staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during World War II. The documents included demonstrate on a weekly, and in some cases a daily, basis what the Allies knew concerning U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This tightly bound volume remains in a near fine condition with a very slight fading of the boards and a slight bend at the top of the spine.

Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co. of America, Baltimore, 1993, first edition, inscribed. xxi, 342 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Very good. very good. Includes index and bibliography. One of the most controversial battles of the War of 1812. . This account of one of the bloodiest battles that took place in North America in sight of Niagara Falls.The events are described in detail while providing an examination of the weapons, tactics and personalities of the opposing armies in the Lundy's Lane encounter,

RSV Publications ; Arms and Armour Press, New York London,1979 Edition: 1st ed. 56 p. with centre fold-out pages of lines and decks of HMS Rodney. Ideal for modellers. Very good with minor creasing of card cover.

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 class; the Vanguard; Sovetskii Soyuz class; and Soviet battlecruisers. This is the second volume of three.

Collins, 1971, first ed., 286 pgs. vg/vg, gift inscription on front end paper.  The story centers on Bear Island in the Arctic which during WWII German submarines would wait for the Murmansk convoys. Mystery and intrigue for the film crew on the ship as they go to Bear Island to film.

The Promotional Reprint Company Limited, Leicester, 1938. 1995.vg/vg, 269 pages highlighting the events in Britain and the World following the first war. Many photographs of people and events.

World Ship Society - Trident Books¸ Tynemouth , 215 p. : ill. b/w, maps, plans of ships and guns. These battleships originally designed and built rapidly to fulfill an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I and were not used much until the World War II. Between 1914 and 1965 there were 42 monitors commissioned. Includes index and bibliography. Very good/ good minus, slight tears and soiling to dj. Heavy may require extra postage.

New Bedford Public Library, Mass., 1964. 159 p. ill. b/w lines of the ships and photographs. very good decorated boards, slight sunning of spine. Covers the construction of New Bedford whalers, these barquentine ships famous late 1800's stood the rigors long sea passages. The details of the hull design and all the masts, rigging, sails are explained.

Grub Street, London, 1998, Volume one, first edition, 4th imp. 392 p., b/w photos and map. includes index, a comprehensive account of air operations over South-East Asia, December 1941-April 1942.

sailing, adventure, single handed transatlantic race: story of the author learning to sail and his adventures at sea in a major ocean race.

Sea/Haessner Nautical Books, 1975. 1st. fair tpb.

International Marine, Camden, 1994, 4th ed. xii, 372 p. ill. b/w drawings and photos, includes index. very good/very good. Discusses wood, building, tools, lines, setting up, framing, sharpening tools, and has a bibliography. Heavy will require extra postage.

University of Toronto Press, 1966. 2, 1973 reprint. good/poor.

University of Toronto Press, 1966. 1976. poor/fair. ex-lib, mylar, minor water damage

University of Toronto Press, 1966. 1974 second edition. good/fair, occassional notations on pages, signals, code and flag chart in back pocket: covers, licence numbers of canadian ports, boat handling, great lakes and inland waterways, weather, broadcasts, engines, navigation, hull shapes and construction for stability, marlinspike seamanship, saftey, currents rules of the road.

University of Toronto Press, 1966. 1976. good/fair.

Collins, 1956. 1st. good/fair -.

Scribner's, New York, 1972, first US edition, 240 p. ill. b/w photos, map front end papers, full rigged ship and sails identified on back end papers. The French Merchant Marine ships called bounty ships 1870-1920, moved cargoes to the overseas possessions. The French had low desertion rates and the ships more comfortable and safe. They also took easier passages for the ships. Many were Breton sailor, Henri Picard sailed on one of these ships.

J. Wiley & Sons Canada, Mississauga, ON 2008, x, 289 p.,16 p. of plates ill. b/w, maps, ports. 24 cm, includes index and bibliography.very good/ very good minus - fading on spine. Canadian infantry in WW I. Canadians who volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force through the lens of one battalion -- the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. This Highland regiment fought in the Ypres, Salient and in the Somme, at Vimy and Amiens.

Putnam, London, 1957, first edition, viii, 742 p. illus.b/w photographs. Very good top edge green . An essential and definitive reference of First World War aviation. Specifications which include power unit, dimensions, weights and performance, armament and a history are given for each aeroplane and the book contains no less than 645 illustrations, Heavy will require extra postage.