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Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 92 pages. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. This is a softcover trade catalog on steel pipe structures produced by Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. Circa 1960s before the company merged into Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Pictorial wrapper featuring the inside of such a structure. 20 pages, measuring 8.5 x 11.75 inches in size. Contents include information organized under these headings: Concerning Steel pipe Structure, Merits of Steel Pipe Structure, Construction of Steel Pipe Structure, Facilities of Kakogawa Plant, with Actual Examples of Steel Pipe Structure. Black & white photographs, with three in full color. The wrapper is in very good condition. Only the two outer corners appear slightly bumped. Binding is strong with no loose or missing pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. This catalog comes from a collection of several thousand trade manuals.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, 2, [4]p chiefly ill. 26cm Covers rather darkened o/w a clean unmarked copy in good condition. [Stevens's Model Dockyard model steam locomotives Catalogues] r627 / m14824.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Illustrated with numerous photographs and black and with figures (illustrator). 1st Edition.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraving. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. A view of Chatham Dockyard, hand-coloured, colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly done.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover trade publication providing information on the history and growth of the Kawasaki Group, in addition to describing their business structure, including sales and products. Photographs throughout, black-and-white and full color. Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., circa 1963. Pictorial wrappers. 40 pages, measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. Wrappers are in good condition with minor fingerprint smudges on back cover. Good condition, with strong binding and unmarked pages.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original engraved view. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. A view of a the launch of the Steam Corvette Pallas at Woolwich, together with a short report.

60pp, folded map, colour illustrations throughout. 30x30, ring bound, illustrated card covers Some slight wear on covers, contents good. Significant initial study for the historic dockyards at Chatham, and how they could be developed as they were withdrawn from active use.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover instruction manual for operating the Kawasaki PICOM-L, from Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. Glossy blue and white wrappers. 67 pages, measuring 7 x 10 inches. Includes diagrams and black-and-white photographs. Good condition, with strong binding and unmarked pages.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique hand coloured engraving. COLOURING NOT CONTEMPORARY BUT DELICATELY AND EXPERTLY EXECUTED. Engraved in 1831. Engraved portion 6 x 4 inches, 18 x 12 cms, mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Mount size 10 x 8 inches, 30 x 24 cms. -ST DOCKYARD AT DEVONPORT - ENGRAVED IN 1831.

folio [33x21cm]. 180 pages. good clean conditionin the original blue paper covers, with damage to the spine where it has been removed from a larger volume. a wealth of statistical information on naval shipbuilding and repair, dockyard expenses, etc., etc. in the early years of the 20th century [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Admiral (1822-1901). [At the time of this letter, Stewart was Controller of Portsmouth Dockyard.] 2pp., 8vo. He is sorry that a visit to Chatham Dockyard prevented his going to the "Warwick Castle". He reports that "His Majesty is well pleased" with the vessel. (Donald Currie was the founder of the Castle Steamship Company.].

HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines (in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft), built by Seaward and Company, were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864. 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, but with the signature torn away. Addressed, with seal in black wax, to 'Benjamin Sharpe Esq | 19, Fleet Street, | London' (Sharpe's father had been resident partner at that address in the banking firm of Gosling & Sharpe. The first paragraph reads: 'Dear Sharpe, | I have just returned from the Gorgon, and my visit to her has verified the substance of our Conversation on Thursday last. | Her present armament consists of 4 32-pounder (bored) guns & 2 84-pounders (10-inch) on the weather deck. if properly armed she would also carry 12 32-pounders on the main-deck, but she is deficient in these. Her draft of water is about 15th. & 15 . 6 which, I believe, is what she ought to draw if her armament were complete, with the full compliment of men, water, provisions, munitions &c.' The letter continues with detailed criticism, with reference to a trail 'in the river in July last, with Ld Minto & other lords of the Admiralty on bd', the fact that 'her displacement had been sadly miscalculated',an incident on the coast of Spain, her engines and paddle-boards. 'To judge of Gorgon, whether she be a failure or otherwise, she should be tried as an armed vessel, carrying 16 32-pounders & 2 swivel guns [.] We have no more money that we know what to do with - no more workmen than we to keep pace with our wants in the shipwright department - & yet we are sacrificing both to the vain endeavours of adventurers in naval architecture, while there are plenty of persons in the service who might be advantageously employed in preventing the occurrence of these & other discreditable blunders if it were not the fashion to prefer speculative notions to the plain & unerring principles of the of naval Construction'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. With thin mourning border. Extraction from an album has resulted in some wear to the border at the right of the page: otherwise in good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'My dear Major' and signed 'Thos Sabine Pasley'. He is sorry the recipient 'can't come on Wednesday', but he has 'the best possible reason for not doing so'. He asks to be remembered 'very kindly to your father on that day'. He asks if he can 'come on Wednesday week', as he has engaged a family (illegible) to meet him that day.

pp. 92. Fully illustrated. Stapled into pictorial wrappers, the rear cover detached, the front cover nicked along the fore-margin and taped at the top corner, a few corners dog-eared and some margins a bit dusty, but good overall. *SCARCE - COPAC records a single copy at the British Library, the 1914 Catalogue. The above catalogue offers an array of model ships, both sailing and electric, numerous steam railway engines, boilers of various kinds and curiously, MECCANO sets. Meccano itself was first designed and marketed in 1898 by FRANK HORNBY in Liverpool.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Circa 1954. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Folio, pp 174. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards over grey cloth spine, gilt lettering to upper board and spine. A company history of John Swire & Sons' leading dockyard and ship repairing operations. The first dock and slipway was built in 1900 the near the company s Taikoo Sugar Refinery on the north shore of Hong Kong island. The book is liberally illustrated throughout with images of ships, dockyards and workshops. In Near Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Laid in is a photocopy extract, an article titled "Taikoo Dockyard, Hong Kong" by Albert Griffin, extracted from the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineering, Vol 183, January 1911.

Ca. 1921 Rotterdam, softcover with chord binding 86 pages. Photobook of built ships and activities on the RDM yard in Rotterdam. Some marks of use. In good condition.

All items clear and complete: good, on aged paper, with punch holes for ring binder. ITEM ONE: Printed 'REPORT upon the House Accommodation available for Workers employed at Rosyth and for their Families, and upon the Provision for Sickness and Accident' (London: H.M.S.O., 1911). By Thomas F. Dewar (Medical Inspector) and John Wilson (Architectural Inspector). Folio, 10 pp. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copies on COPAC at Oxford and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. ITEM TWO: mimeographed 'Report of meeting held at the offices of Messrs Easton Gibb & Son, Ltd., Contractors, Rosyth, in connection with the housing accommodation in the district and the hospital accommodation at Rosyth'. Dated 10 March 1914. Folio, 13 pp. Sections on 'Overcrowding' and 'Increase of cost of living'. ITEM THREE: mimeographed 'Information given by Dr. McGregor, Medical Officer of Health for Dunfermline, 11th March, 1914. H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth'. Folio, 2 pp. Giving details of those housed in four lodging houses and the 'Bruce Street Model'. ITEM FOUR: mimeographed 'RULES FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT OF ROSYTH VILLAGE'. Folio, 4 pp. Twenty rules. In pencil at head of first page: 'Copy handed to McRobbie 28/8/13'. Signed by Alexander Gibb, Managing Director, Easton Gibb & Son, Limited. ITEM FIVE: mimeographed 'DRAFT. ROSYTH VILLAGE. CONDITIONS OF TENANCY OF HABITATIONS BUILT BY MESSRS. EASTON GIBB & SON, LTD., HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE FIRM".' Folio, 7 pp. 12 conditions.

A substantial letter, 3pp., foolscap 8vo. 100 lines of text. Bifolium. In very good condition, on aged paper, with one closed along crease line neatly repaired with archival tape. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with Chatham postmark, frank, and black wax seal, to 'Viscount Ingestrie M:P. | 2 Wilton Crescent | Belgrave Square | London'. An interesting document, in which a distinguished Victorian naval architect makes detailed criticisms of an innovation in his field. (HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines (in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft), built by Seaward and Company, were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864.) Read begins his letter: 'My Lord | Nothing could exceed my astonishment at the reply or rather which Sir C. Adam gave in citing the Gorgon as a specimen of the success of the personal conductor of our Naval Construction. | In a lithographic account privately circulated but which the Hampshire Telegraph published; it was stated for what purposes this bad & wretched failure was designed. - She was to be able to carry 10 long 32 Pr. between decks - 4 32 Prs. and 2 10 inch Bomb Cannon on the weather deck - She was to take or be able to take a regiment on board with all its equipage for a colonial voyage across the Atlantic.' He proceeds to describe the 'falling off' from these specifications, commenting that 'her constructor had so little knowledge of what he was about, that he was deficient in displacement at least 400 tons corresponding to a too great immersion of 3 feet about [.] When she left Plymouth for her first trip to St. Sebastian she drew 17 ft 3 in aft instead of her intended draft 15.6 and the Ports abaft the Paddle Boxes were only from 3 ft 3 in to 3 ft 6 in above the water!! Of course the Ports were still caulked in.' At the end of this criticism he describes the Gorgon as 'a failure'. He proceeds to 'shew how experiments are got up', concluding, 'is this the way that an experiment involving a cost of 40000£ should be conducted? - The engines alone of the Gorgon cost 20000£.' He continues 'Would Sir C. Adam produce the lithographic circulars of which the Gorgon was intended for and would he venture to place in contrast with it the actual performance of the ship?' He gives more specifications, before stating: 'The Constructor of the Gorgon ought to be called upon to explain if he can the early discrepancy between his intentions & performances. He ends by apologising for 'this rough document'.