Author: WATERS, SYDNEY D
Title: Ordeal By Sea: The New Zealand Shipping Company in The Second World War 1939-1945
Description: London, United Kingdom, New Zealand Shipping Company. 1949, First Edition. (ISBN: 00000000000) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The men and ships of the New Zealand Shipping company and their participation in the British Merchant Navy during WWII. Includes details of the company's ships lost through enemy action, including the Turakina, victim of the German raider Orion in the Tasman Sea in August 1940 which was the first of the company's ships lost. Also covers the sinking of the Rangitane and Cambridge, as well as the salvage of the Hororata and the Battle of the Atlantic with the Essex in the Malta Convoy. Very Scarce title. Pamphlet laid in on the East Asiatic Companies shipping effort during WW2 with photo illus. CONDITION Red waxed cloth with gilt spine title in black flag (unworn with sharp cnrs) pp xii 263 with 5 photo plates. Internally bright and very crisp, foxing at ends. DJ has a couple of short tears at top edge o/w excellent condition. Near Fine/Very Good.

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