Search Results: Titles starting with W from Naval Marine Archive

London. John Hamilton, Ltd. 1st English Language Edition. 1935, 22 cm, Cloth. pp: [1 - 6] 7 - 196. Illustrated with thirty-six b&w photographs of landscape and planes; sketch of Heydemarck as frontispiece, with other sketches as chapter headers; folding map of air routes, rail and harbours, following the text. Blue cloth, slightly skewed, black lettering on front bd. and spine; several personal signatures and stamp on front endpaper. Some soiling to the binding and fading to the spine. Light foxing to the endpapers and edges of the text. The memoirs of a German fighter pilot flying the Balkans during the First World War, taken from his flight logs. Good/No Jacket.

The War at Sea published by HMSO, London: part of the 'History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series' : three volumes in four, ill. 4 f.p. (8 plates), 288 plates on 142 p. (1 double-page), 87 folding maps (74 coloured in outline), 30 full-page maps (6 coloured in outline), 17 maps in text ; 111 tables (7 double-page) ; 25 cm.: Vol. I The Defensive, 1st ed., 5th imp.,1962 xxii, 664 p.: Vol. II The Period of Balance, 1st ed., 3rd imp. 1962 xvii, 523 p.: Vol. III The Offensive Part 1: 1st June 1943-31st May 1944 , 1st.ed., 1960.: xv, 413 p. with errata,: Vol. III The Offensive Part 2: 1st June 1944-14th August 1945, 1st. ed., 1961, xvi,502 p. with errata; the condition of all four - good/good, mylar, some yellow highlighting and a book plate. Heavy extra postage at cost. Heavy requires more postage.Captain Stephen Roskill (1903-1982) documented the account of the conflict at sea by the Royal and Commonwealth navies from 1939 to 1945, from the coastal battles to the Battle of the… Read More

Macmillan of Canada in collaboration with the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, Toronto, 1983, : xx, 489 p. ill. b/w, col. chart on end papers, includes index, 26 cm. Very good - owner's name on liner, good+ dust jacket tanned and slight soiling on front.
War of 1812, topics covered, declaration of war, United States, British North America, Detroit frontier, Niagara frontier, Moraviantown, Montreal, Western Upper Canada, Erie frontier, Lundy's Lane, British offensive, Castine Expedition, Treaty of Ghent, honours and awards, Canadian uniforms, regiments and other units, medical services. Heavy may require extra postage.

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987, first US edition, 192 p. ill. b/w, plans, lines and photos, includes bibliography and index. very good/ good - slight yellowing discolouration, mylar. An account of HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first sea-going warship completed in 1861 combining for the first time armoured iron construction, steam propeller drive and rifled breech-loading fire-power. After active service for a number of years she was used as a storage hulk and depot ship in the West Indies until in 1979. This account follows the detailed progress of her restoration to her former glory, now in Portsmouth.

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 the escape of the Jean Bart. Heavy will require extra postage.

Royal Canadian Military Institute Heritage Society, Shelburne, ON. 2000 imp. xvi, 418 p., 8 p. contributors listed. Fine/fine. The author described the young sailors who left home for the first time, had never seen a ship and lived in crowed quarters and shared the sorrow when a ship was lost; all as part of their service in the Royal Canadian Navy during the war.

Northgate, 1947, first ed. with errata slip, tpb, 184 p., 23 cm, ill. bw photos. Very good. Alberta, settlement, fur trade, development, resources.

Time-Life books, 1979. 1st. fine.

Time-Life books, 1979. 1st. fine.

Volume 2 of "Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century." In fine condition, vg d/j small tear/chip (see photo.) "The markets and exchanges that, from the start, have been the real motors of change." (d.j.)

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows this is the beginning of a nightmare. Heinemann, 1979, 22.5 cm, 370 p., 6 p. of advertisement, First edition, Hardcover. Book is in a very good condition with a few wrinkles in the cloth boards along the spine. The dust jacket contains numerous closed rips and fading and has been price clipped. The dust jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Time-Life Books, 1978. 1st. fair.

Time-Life Books, 1978. 1st. very good. bw, col.

Royal Canadian Air Force Association, 1963 first edition, 104 p. ill. b/w sketches of planes used by the Canadian military pilots in the last 50 years. The types of aircraft used by the Canadian Armed Forces from the two-seat single engined bi-plane R.E.8 of WWI to the CS2F-1 "Tracker" built in Canada by de Havilland in the 1950s and '60s. Each aircraft has a line drawing accompanied by a descriptive text in English and French. The inside front cover has facsimile signatures of over 70 pilots including Raymond Collishaw, G E Nash and Joe Macbrien. On front board signatures of pilots with a tissue overlay of their names printed and on the back board the Trans Canada Trophy with the tissue overlay of the winners and their sginatures. Very good red cloth and gilt.

Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1976. 1st. very good/good.  The wreck of the Florizel in 1918 on the shore of Newfoundland was one of the most senseless disasters of Canadian maritime history. Brown’s book recounts the events and proposes a reason for the disaster.

International Marine Press, Camden, 1993, ill. b/w; xvii, 270 p. 25 cm; includes index and glossary; very good/very good. Provides the basic skills of renovating a wooden boat, with advice about the purchase of boat to fix up and then how to proceed as well as maintenance.

White Lion, 1973. 1st. near fine/good.The story of the square-rigged merchant marine of British North America, the ships, their builder, their owners and the men who sailed in them. The golden age of sail in the Maritimes.  337 pages

Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA , 1995, first ed. 110 p. ill. b/w photographs showing tools, design and preparation to carve animals. Very good trade paperback.. The art of creating wooden sculptures and shows three examples.

Conway, in association with the National Maritime Museum, with introduction by Dr.Basil Greenhill. First published 1983, 256 p. with index, ill. with line drawings and sketches, considered an excellent study in the area of research about the small boats. Heavy require more postage.

David & Charles, 1967. 1967 2imp. good/good. ex-lib The 1967 wreck of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon on the west coast of England spilled a hundred thousand tons of crude oil into the sea and devastated the Cornish coast and sea coasts of Britain and France.