Navy from Naval Marine Archive

Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2019, Conrad Waters ed. 192 p. ill. b/w, col..Fine/fine. The world fleet reviews, significant ship designs and technology.

Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1979, first edition, ill. b/w 192 p. includes index.Very good, very good corners slight wear. First class photo record, many detailed, carefully explicit drawings. This book is a detailed comparison between British and American destroyer armament. From the guns, torpedoes and ASW weapons including the mountings, directors, fire control and electronics. Excellent detail… Read more about this item

McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, ON 1987, first edition, xiv, 285 p., includes index and notes; decorated boards, fine. This work presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertain legacy of organization and role and contemporary challenges arising from overseas developments and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organizations and… Read more about this item

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1990, 1st US edition, 127 p. ill. b/w photographs and plans with lines and details. Very good, very good mylar. The destroyer Campbeltown is not only famous for her part in the commando raid on the St. Naziare drydock in 1942, but it also representative on an important type. Built as the USS Buchanan… Read more about this item

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987, 3rd imp. xvi, 324 p. : ill. b/w lines. photos, folded graph of displacement and curves in back pocket, includes an index. Very good. Covers such topics as ship geometry, properties of shipbuilding materials, stability, submarine hydrostatics, propulsion systems, and maneuverability. Heavy may require extra postage.

Halton & Company Limited, London, 1926. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Limited edition no. 408 of 1500. Large Quarto. xiv p., 1 l., 78 p., 1 l. col. mounted front., illus., 90 pl. (1 fold., part col. mounted). A fine volume, containing text on the ships of the early nineteenth-century navy, and ninety stunning plates (selected from the collection of… Read more about this item

Sampson Low, 1965, 461 p. 60 p.advert., ill. of ships b/w photos. in this issue a build up of attack vessels and missile carriers. Includes index. fair with wear to bds, Heavy will require extra postage.

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… Read more about this item

Volume 1 and Volume 2. These two volumes cover the career histories of all of the U-boats that were commissioned in World War II. The histories of home 1, 200 vessels are covered. Each entry gives locations and dates of units which with the boat served, her commanders, the number of patrols undertaken, ships sunk along with names of vessels… Read more about this item

This is the is the culmination of thirty-seven years' work by H.Trevor Lenton, an experienced naval officer and well recognized historian, covering 20,000 ships and containing 634 photographs. It weighs over 2 Kg and will incur additional shipping costs. It's near fine quality is marred only by the owner's signature (he was a senior Canadian officer and naval pilot) mostly… Read more about this item

Appleton, New York 1901, 3rd ed. of Volume one. top edge gilt, pages uncut, ill. b/w plates, sketches, maps. xl. 660 p. Very good with minor wear to corners and edges of spine.This edition written following the war with Spain. The history covered is the revolutionary war, wars with France and Tripoli and the War of… Read more about this item

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2015, first ed. xiii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, includes index. fine/very good. The alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet when by the mid 1930s, both fleets had overextended themselves with global defense commitments, owing mainly to the collapse of the world war alliances and to an ominous… Read more about this item

Ian Allan, London, 1972, 1st ed. 160 p.with 48 pages of photographs includes index. Very good/very good mylar. WWII escort carrier ships. During the Second World War the British needed a platform for planes to use for protection of the convoy fleets moving goods. They converted captured German merchant ships and added decks for take off. Then the pilots were… Read more about this item

.Conway Maritime Press, London, limited first edition 1009/2000, ill. b/w, 224 p., includes index. fine/fine. Part of the series 'Conway's history of the Ship'. This edition discusses warships operating above and below the surface have needed increased endurance and long range capability. These aspects have affected the new designs and power the ships. The ships of a more traditional design,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

viii, 374 p. ; ill. ports, plans (some fold.), diags. The author was Master Shipwright at Brest, and in 1737 was ordered by the French Minister of the Navy to go to England and Holland to study the construction of their ships of war. His highly detailed report, never before published, and here translated and edited by David Roberts provides… Read more about this item

Mayflower, New York, 1979, 1st US ed., 440 p., ill. b/w, 32 cm. mylar, very good. good dj faded, tag on spine, price clipped. This volume lists all significant warships built between 1860-1905, and is the first complete listing of all major warships built in the period between the first Ironclad and the Dreadnought. Very heavy more postage required.

Esselte studium, Stockholm, 1973, first edition, 448 pages, 22 cm. Lund Studies in International History 4 series. Very good, a few minor pencil notes, paper dj rubbed on edges. Material from the German State archives captured after World War Two was the basis of extensive study. The period covered begins in 1914 and ends in 1940.

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2013, 223 p. ill. with photographs, maps, tables and col. watercolours by Jean Bladê, first US edition. Superbly written with part one technical and part two the historic aspects with new information about period between the wars when the French navy used innovative design changes for the cruisers of the fleet. The testing and trials are… Read more about this item

Published by Halton Truscott Smith, 1926, first edition, very good with minor edge wear to corners and top and bottom of spine, limited edition #480 of 1,500. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on boards and spine, t.e.g, 32 cm; xiv, 1, 78 p., 1, 90 plates from the Macpherson collection of naval ships including a fold out of HMS… Read more about this item