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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. [1st ed. 1st printing] x p., 3 l., 517, [1] p. front. (ports.) 8 pl. (1 col.) fold. plans. 24 cm. 8° (230 x 175) 9 plates, 13 diagrams ; includes the four folding diagrams in the back pocket ; OCLC 459611629 ; LCCN 19005441 50.319 copies ; brown cloth with gold designs ; This copy from the HMS Dragon, a D- or Danae-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in Glasgow, in December 1917. written notation on front endpaper dated 1919 at Harwich, where she had been commissioned the previous year, on August 10, 1918. Armed with six 6-inch guns, the light cruiser was commissioned late during World War I and a Daily Mirror article of 1934 credits her South African crewman Maurice Green of firing the last shot of the war at sea when she engaged German seaplanes off Heligoland Bight on 9 November 1918. She carried the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) to Canada in August 1919 to begin a royal tour. She then took part in the Russian Civil War as part of a task force aiding newly independent Latvia and Estonia against the Bolsheviks and German Freikorps forces in October and November 1919, as part of the British intervention in the Baltic. On 17 October 1919 Dragon was hit by three shells fired from a shore battery while taking part in operations against German forces attacking Riga, suffering nine killed and five wounded. From 1920 she was part of the First Light Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet, with Captain O. H. Hawke-Genn taking over command from March that year. The ship was scuttled in July 1944 off the Normandy beaches as part of the Arromanches Breakwater. ; ownership stamp on front endpaper of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer & Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 & earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; likely signature of Lt. Philip J. Mack on front endpaper. Lt. Mack left HMS Dragon on 11th of January 1920 while at port in Chatham. Very possibly this is the Philip John Mack who became Rear-Admiral DSO (1892-1943). Mack was killed in an air crash on 29 April 1943 ; Contents: The Opening Of The War -- General Naval Strategy In Home Waters -- The Grand Fleet And Its Bases -- Declaration Of War -- The Submarine And Mine Menace In The North Sea -- Incidents At Sea -- The Dogger Bank Action -- German Mines And Submarines -- Controlling The North Sea -- Attempts To Entice The Enemy To Action -- The Naval Situation In May, 1916 -- The Battle Of Jutland -- The Battle Of Jutland -- Reflections On The Battle Of Jutland -- The Lessons Of Experience ; Lord Kitchener's Farewell -- The Submarine Peril To Merchant Shipping -- Recall To The Admiralty -- Appendix I -- Battle Of Jutland Despatch -- Proceedings Of Battle Fleet -- The Battle Cruisers In The Van -- Details Of Battle Fleet Action -- Night Attacks By Flotillas -- Proceedings On 1st June -- The Personnel Of The Fleet -- List Of Enemy Vessels Considered To Be Sunk -- Appendix Ii -- Action In The North Sea, On Sunday, 24th January, 1915 ; Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial.; scarce copy ; some marks on front cover, else VG. Book.