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BIRTH OF THE BATTLESHIP : BRITISH CAPITAL SHIP DESIGN 1870-1881

By: Beeler, John.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Chatham Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 65568

ISBN: 1861761678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in creased dustjacket. ; The successes and failures as navies in the late 19th century moved from the world of wooden sailing ships to the new technology of steam and iron. Illustrated. ; 224 pages
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THE GARRETT ENIGMA AND THE EARLY SUBMARINE PIONEERS

By: Bowers, Paul.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Airlife: 1999

Seller ID: 65169

ISBN: 1840370661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; marks to endpaper otherwise good in torn dustjacket. ; Nineteenth-century British inventor George William Garrett and his submarine Resurgam. Illustrated. ; 224 pages
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BEFORE THE IRONCLAD : WARSHIP DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 1815-1860

By: Brown, David K.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 1990

Seller ID: 62405

ISBN: 978184322585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £40.00.; The advent of steam and the paddle fighting ship, iron hulls and screw propulsion. The performance of the fleet in the Crimean War; and the design of the Warrior - the first iron-built, sea-going capital ship. Illustrated. (Reprint of the Seaforth edition, published 2015). ; 224 pages
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SAILING WARSHIPS OF THE US NAVY

By: Canney, Donald L.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Chatham Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 63843

ISBN: 1861761104

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; A well illustrated study re-assessing the work of Howard Chapelle and the evolution of the American Navy. The warship types and service, Navy-built warships of the American Revolution, and ship design up to the 1860s. ; 224 pages
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SAILING WARSHIPS OF THE US NAVY

By: Canney, Donald L.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chatham Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 66452

ISBN: 1861761104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; pages bowed, otherwise a good clean copy in creased and faded dustjacket. ; A well illustrated study re-assessing the work of Howard Chapelle and the evolution of the American Navy. The warship types and service, Navy-built warships of the American Revolution, and ship design up to the 1860s. ; 224 pages
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MEN OF WAR : COURAGE UNDER FIRE IN THE 19TH CENTURY NAVY

By: Crane, D.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Harper Press: 2009

Seller ID: 40246

ISBN: 0007254059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; A portrait of the Royal Navy through the lives of three outstanding naval officers. Frank Hastings, William Peel, and James Goodenough. Illustrated. ; 480 pages
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A TREATISE ON NAVAL GUNNERY (1855)

By: Douglas, H. General.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Naval & Military Press:

Seller ID: 50308

ISBN: 1843425319

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; lean to spine, dent to margin of pages, blemish to edge of pages, otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Facsimile reprint of the Revised Fourth Edition, published 1855. Illustrated. ; 645 pages
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MAD JACK PERCIVAL : LEGEND OF THE OLD NAVY

By: Ellis, J. H.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2002

Seller ID: 62234

ISBN: 1557502048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; Percival's naval career began in 1797 when he was impressed into British naval service aboard HMS Victory and ended in 1846 after taking the USS Constitution on her only around-the-world cruise. Illustrated. ; 242 pages
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A SAILOR'S LOG : RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS OF NAVAL LIFE

By: Evans, R. D. (Cooling, B. F. Introduction.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1994

Seller ID: 60502

ISBN: 0870215876

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Classics of Naval Literature. Hardback without dustjacket; blemish to edge of pages otherwise very good in marked cloth boards. ; The author (Robley D. Evans) served in the American Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. First published 1901. With new Introduction. +xxviiipp. ; 481 pages
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BRITISH CRUISERS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA

By: Friedman, Norman.

Price: £24.99

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 65244

ISBN: 184832099X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £45.00.; Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings. Ship plans by A D Baker III. ; 352 pages
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TORPEDO WAR, AND SUBMARINE EXPLOSIONS

By: Fulton, Robert. (Henkle, Herman H. Introduction. )

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Swallow Press Incorporated: 1971

Seller ID: 64968

ISBN: 0804005338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; bookplate to paste-down, otherwise very good in discoloured cloth boards. ; Facsimile reprint of the 1810 edition; with New Introduction. Illustrated; +xiiipp. Robert Fulton, designer of the Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history; and inventor of some of the earliest naval torpedoes for use by the Royal Navy. ; 60 pages
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THE U.S. NAVY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 1847-1883

By: Hackemer, K.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2001

Seller ID: 47460

ISBN: 1557503338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardback issued without dustjacket; a fine copy. ; The first book to examine the developing relationship between American business and the U.S. Navy in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.; 181 pages
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BLACK NIGHT OFF FINISTERRE: THE TRAGIC TALE OF AN EARLY BRITISH IRONCLAD

By: Hawkey, A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Airlife: 1999

Seller ID: 41477

ISBN: 1840370955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in lightly creased dustjacket. ; The loss of HMS Captain in 1870, the first sea-gowing turret warship; and the controversy in parliament and the press which led to her building. Illustrated. ; 192 pages
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COMMISSIONERS AND COMMODORES: THE EAST INDIA SQUADRON AND AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IN CHINA

By: Henson, C. T.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press: 1982

Seller ID: 59784

ISBN: 0817300872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hardback without dustjacket; tear to margin of one page otherwise good in scuffed boards. ; The creation of the American East India Squadron in 1835 and the effects of its presence on the China coast during the nineteenth century. ; 231 pages
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GOLD BRAID AND FOREIGN RELATIONS: DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES OF U.S. NAVAL OFFICERS, 1798-1883

By: Long, D. F.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1988

Seller ID: 41642

ISBN: 0870212281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Hardback; fine in fine dustjacket. ; Maps & illustrations.
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FATHER OF THE SUBMARINE: THE LIFE OF THE REVEREND GEORGE GARRETT PASHA

By: Murphy, W. S.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: William Kimber: 1987

Seller ID: 50227

ISBN: 0718306546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in creased dustjacket. ; Biography of the inventor of the first practical British submarine 'Resurgam'. Illustrated. ; 254 pages
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HOW THE BATTLESHIP MAINE WAS DESTROYED

By: Rickover, H. G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, Washington: 1976

Seller ID: 50779

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket (if issued) ; light foxing to edge of pages otherwise very good in faded and scuffed boards. First edition. ; The sinking of USS Maine, and the tragic loss of 266 lives was blamed on a mine, and it was a partial cause of the Spanish-American war. ; 173 pages
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THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH (1865)

By: Russell, W. H.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: David & Charles: 1972

Seller ID: 43088

ISBN: 0715353748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; marks to one page otherwise good in creased dustjacket. ; How the cable was manufactured, how the Great Eastern was adapted, and how the cable was laid. First published 1865. Illustrated. ; 117 pages
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PIRATE KILLERS: THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE AFRICAN PIRATES

By: Thomas, G. A.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pen & Sword: 2011

Seller ID: 44612

ISBN: 1848842406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £19.99. ; The Royal Navy's fight aggainst african pirates in the nineteenth century. Illustrated. ; 200 pages
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE GREAT WHITE FLEET: AMERICAN SEA POWER COMES OF AGE

By: Wimmel, K.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Brassey's: 1998

Seller ID: 38631

ISBN: 1574881531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Hardback; fine in fine dustjacket. ; The development of of the modern American navy from the late 1800s to the early twentieth century. ; 273 pages
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HURRAH FOR THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER : LIFE ON THE LOWER-DECK OF THE VICTORIAN NAVY

By: Winton, J.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1977

Seller ID: 47901

ISBN: 0718115805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in creased and torn dustjacket. ; The life of the common sailor, based on contemporary accounts, memoirs, diaries and despatches. With 300 illustrations. ; 320 pages
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Category: Naval