Maritime q8 (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1998. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Capturing something of the Spirit of the Fleet Air Arm through a collection of photographs put together over a number of years. A Pictorial History b/w photo-plates to all pages with text. ; 242 X 6 X 174 millimeters; 96 pages.…

Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1998. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Capturing something of the Spirit of the Fleet Air Arm through a collection of photographs put together over a number of years. A Pictorial History b/w photo-plates to all pages with text. ; 243 X 8 X 176 millimeters; 0 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Second City Publishers, Penmarth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. 1995. Vi, 264 pgs. Illustrated with 13 b&w photos as well as many other illustrations. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Small bookplate present to the front wrapper. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "H. M. S. Ganges was but one of several naval training establishments for Boy entrants into the Royal Navy. It was by no means unique except that it may have been the largest in area and complement of Boys -- and probably the most notorious. Ganges had a well-known reputation for the supposed cruelty by the Instructors to the Boys. It also had a reputation for turning out the best seamen in the world. Some say that the efficiency was born out of fear -- others say it was the thorough training. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. John Wheatley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. 2005. 144 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Here, there is only a short opening chapter on origins, design and construction, and really nothing much about design detail, nor any comparison with contemporaries. After this brief opening introduction (four pages of actual text) , Mr McCart gets stuck in to the first commissions of the two ships. He is as interested in the day to day activities of the crew, with grog rations and pay scales, as he is about tactical deployment and the service the role of the ships. Nelson and Rodney are mostly treated together, which makes some sense since for much of their careers they served together, though tracing the movements of either one largely involves untangling them from those of her sister. Nelson went off to the Far East in 1945 without Rodney and had the more interesting final chapter to her career. Again, though, there is more about how hot and uncomfortable this was than about the nature of the operations. A kamikaze attack gets a mention, but nothing about where it came from: no American or Japanese ship gets a mention. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages.…