Author: HMSO,
Title: HIS MAJESTY'S MINESWEEPERS.
Description: 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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