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TOOTHY GOES TO WAR - Memoirs of a Dental Officer 1939-46.
Geo. R. Reeve, Wymondham - Norfolk, 1987, 1st in imprint, paperback, 173pp, 1pp acknowledgements, frontis, line drawings and numerous half tone photo ills. in text, large format (8 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, the experiences of a dentist, during training in the early years of WW2 and then as a Royal Navy Dental Officer including a posting to HMS Europa at Lowestoft, unread, fine,
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Keywords: war ww2 navy rnps naval dentist
GEOFFREY BROOM'S WAR - Letters and P.O.W. Diaries.
The Pentland Press, Bishop Auckland, 1993, 1st edn., 238pp, half tone photo frontis portrait, 6 pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Hobbs, the experiences of Geoffrey Broom during WW2 related through his letters and diaries. Geoffrey Broom joined the Royal Naval Patrol Service in 1940, trained as a signaller and from early in 1941 served in HMT Norse, a Grimsby trawler requisitioned in 1939 and converted for minesweeping, Norse was posted to the Eastern Mediterranean. Two years later Norse's crew waited replacement and as a spare signaller he was attached to a unit sent to the island of Leros, was captured by the Germans and served the remainder of the war in Stalag XIA in Germany (Marlag und Milag Nord) as a POW, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips with tiny repaired nick at head of spine, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 navy minesweeping hmt norse hms canopus alexandria leros aegean pow marlag und milag nord leros
MINE WARFARE VESSELS OF THE ROYAL NAVY - 1908 TO DATE.
Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury - UK, 1993, 1st edn., 223pp, over 200 half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt st spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a complete guide to all Minelayers and Minesweepers by Class from 1908 to 1993, the majority in the period 1939-45, including Fleet Minesweepers, Admiralty, Purchased and Requisitioned Trawlers, Drifters and Whalers, ML's, Paddle Vessels, Motor Minesweepers, Landing Craft, etc., includes description of types of mines, history of mines, etc., faintly bumped at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy minesweeper minelayer history rnps
MINE WARFARE VESSELS OF THE ROYAL NAVY - 1908 TO DATE.
Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury - UK, 1993, 1st edn., 223pp, over 200 half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt st spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a complete guide to all Minelayers and Minesweepers by Class from 1908 to 1993, the majority in the period 1939-45, including Fleet Minesweepers, Admiralty, Purchased and Requisitioned Trawlers, Drifters and Whalers, ML's, Paddle Vessels, Motor Minesweepers, Landing Craft, etc., includes description of types of mines, history of mines, etc., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy minesweeper minelayer history rnps
MINE WARFARE VESSELS OF THE ROYAL NAVY - 1908 TO DATE.
Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury - UK, 1993, 1st edn., 223pp, over 200 half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt st spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a complete guide to all Minelayers and Minesweepers by Class from 1908 to 1993, the majority in the period 1939-45, including Fleet Minesweepers, Admiralty, Purchased and Requisitioned Trawlers, Drifters and Whalers, ML's, Paddle Vessels, Motor Minesweepers, Landing Craft, etc., includes description of types of mines, history of mines, etc., very slightly cocked, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
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OPERATION DRUMBEAT - The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II.
HarperPerrennial, New York, trade paperback, 490pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagram in text, decorated upper wrapper, an account the German naval campaign against the American mercantile vessels off the east coast of North America during WW2, when Admiral Dönitz, commander of submarines and the senior naval officer during the Battle of the Atlantic formulated Operation Drumbeat in early 1942 to take advantage of USA's lack of preparedness for a naval war, (an episode when USA approached the UK for help resulting in Britain sending 24 Royal Naval Patrol Service anti-submarine trawlers as well as whalers and corvettes), with detailed research of the German archives and contributions from interviews with US, British and German veterans the author has been able to relate in detail the planning and execution of the Operation, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, wrappers lightly creased, remainder mark in ink lower edge, very good,
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Keywords: war ww2 navy u-boat battle atlantic usa rnps a/s trawlers
OPERATION DRUMBEAT - The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II.
Harper and Row, New York, 1990, 1st edn. (stated), xxii, 490pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagram in text, maps at endpapers, grey paper covered baords with red cloth lettered in silver at spine, , an account the German naval campaign against the American mercantile vessels off the east coast of North America during WW2, when Admiral Dönitz, commander of submarines and the senior naval officer during the Battle of the Atlantic formulated Operation Drumbeat in early 1942 to take advantage of USA's lack of preparedness for a naval war, (an episode when USA approached the UK for help resulting in Britain sending 24 Royal Naval Patrol Service anti-submarine trawlers as well as whalers and corvettes), with detailed research of the German archives and contributions from interviews with US, British and German veterans the author has been able to relate in detail the planning and execution of the Operation, lightly bumped upper tips of boards, edges tanned, dustwrapper: light creasing at extrems., very good in a near fine dustwrapper,
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LILLIPUT FLEET.
William Kimber, London, 1957, 1st edn., 204pp, frontis and 8pp half tone photo ills., [iv] ads., blue/black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by W. R. Dalzell, an account of the setting up of the Royal Naval Patrol Service at Lowestoft in 1939, first known as Pembroke 'X' and then as HMS Europa, of the requisition of numerous buildings in the town, of the fighting force of trawlers and drifters converted into warships and the later purpose built Motor and British Yard Minesweepers, engaged in mine-sweeping, hunting u-boats and taking part in all landings from Madagascar to Normandy, with details of a number of incidents involving RNPS vessels including the winning of a VC at Namsos, slightly cocked, gilding dull at spine, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed with slight loss at extrems., repaired to reverse, light soiling mainly to lower panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 sea navy rnps a/s royal naval patrol service trawler mine minesweeper
HIS MAJESTY'S MINESWEEPERS.
HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 64pp, many half tone photo ills, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", an official account of the Fleet and RNPS minesweepers including a brief history of minesweeping, training at HMS Lochinvar, how minesweeping is carried out (with diagrams), a contemporary account of the work including sweeping the war channel and dealing with new types of mine, the sweepers at Dunkirk, etc, ills. include RNPS (Stella Rigel) and Fleet vessels (unnamed), a little rubbed at extrems., faint creasing to wrappers, cnrs. inclined to curl, staples replaced, binding reinforced, some foxing lower wrapper, good plus,
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Keywords: britain topography east anglia suffolk war ww2 navy hmso dunkirk rnps royal naval patrol service fleet moored magnetic mines minsweeper war channel coastal lochinvar paravane bosuns nightmare
HIS MAJESTY'S MINESWEEPERS.
HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 64pp, many half tone photo ills. in text, photo pictorial endpapers, printed by Harrison & Sons, London, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", an official account of the Fleet and RNPS minesweepers including a brief history of minesweeping, training at HMS Lochinvar, how minesweeping is carried out (with diagrams), a contemporary account of the work including sweeping the war channel and dealing with new types of mine, the sweepers at Dunkirk, etc, ills. include RNPS (Stella Rigel) and Fleet vessels (unnamed), lightly rubbed at tips, pages lightly tanned, very good plus,
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THE GALLANT LITTLE CAMPEADOR.
Methuen, London, 1941, 1st edn., viii, 72pp, half tone frontis, 8 half tone plates, orange cloth lettered in navy blue at spine, vignette upper board, white dustwarpper lettered in blue with a photo vignette upper panel, an account of the brief naval career of a 126 foot twin V-16 diesel engined yacht Campeador V, the property of the wealthy Vernon Macandrew of Dartmouth, a keen sailor and Rear-Commodore of the Royal Dart Yacht Club. At the outbreak of WW2 MacAndrew offered his yacht to the Royal Navy and with two sailing friends, retired Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Muir and Charles Turner, they became respectively Sub-Lt. MacAndrew RNVR, Sub-Lt. Muir RNVR and Sub-Lt. Turner, RNVR of the Royal Naval Patrol Service vessel HM Yacht Campeador, under the command of Commander C. E. Davey, RNR, the vessel being lost to a magnetic mine whilst on anti-submarine patrol off Portsmouth in June 1940, (the author confuses the WW1 Auxiliary Patrol with the WW2 Royal Naval Patrol Service), edges a little tanned and foxed, ink name front pastedown, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., chip lower edge lower panel repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
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GRIMSBY'S FIGHTING FLEET - Trawlers and U-Boats during the Second World War.
Hutton Press, Beverley, 1990 1st edn., paperback original, 108pp, a number of half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an account covering all those trawlers which were part of the Grimsby fleet before being requisitioned by the Royal Navy and which encountered a U-boat during WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
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GRIMSBY'S FIGHTING FLEET - Trawlers and U-Boats during the Second World War.
Hutton Press, Beverley, 1990 1st edn., paperback original, 108pp, a number of half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an account covering all those trawlers which were part of the Grimsby fleet before being requisitioned by the Royal Navy and which encountered a U-boat during WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
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COXSWAIN IN THE NORTHERN CONVOYS.
William Kimber, London, 1984, 1st edn., [xii], 191pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author first went to sea aged fourteen in a Hull trawler in 1935, by 1939 he was an experienced member of RNR and on call-up served first in the German built HMT Northern Gem on anti-submarine and convoy escort duties, in the Narvik campaign, on Arctic convoys PQ17 and QP14 and the Atlantic convoy JW51B, before leaving Gem and seeing further service in the Mediterranean in the steam yacht Sidi Ifni, in Tunisia and Sardinia and finally as coxswain of MGB177 based at Leghorn in Italy, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, faint diag. crease lower panel, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 navy rnps a/s rncf pq17 qp14 jw51b hmt northern gem sidi ifni mgb177
COXSWAIN IN THE NORTHERN CONVOYS.
William Kimber, London, 1984, 1st edn., [xii], 191pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author first went to sea aged fourteen in a Hull trawler in 1935, by 1939 he was an experienced member of RNR and on call-up served first in the German built HMT Northern Gem on anti-submarine and convoy escort duties, in the Narvik campaign, on Arctic convoys PQ17 and QP14 and the Atlantic convoy JW51B, before leaving Gem and seeing further service in the Mediterranean in the steam yacht Sidi Ifni, in Tunisia and Sardinia and finally as coxswain of MGB177 based at Leghorn in Italy, edges tanned, upper edge faintly fioxed, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 navy rnps a/s rncf pq17 qp14 jw51b hmt northern gem sidi ifni mgb177