Navy RN from Naval Marine Archive

London : H.M.S.O., 1966, first edition in two volumes, hb with xix; 382 p. col. ftp and b/w photos; cased 17 folded drawings with designs, diagrams. Text -fine/very good vol. with dec. boards - gilt on blue with simple dust jacket, case very good blue boards slight wear to gilt on spine. Additonal authors: Great Britain Victory Advisory Technical Committee.… Read more about this item

RSV Publications ; Arms and Armour Press, New York London,1979 Edition: 1st ed. 56 p. with centre fold-out pages of lines and decks of HMS Rodney. Ideal for modellers. Very good with minor creasing of card cover.

Aylmer Press, Aylmer ON, 1988, xv, 287 p., 28 cm, ill. b/w, includes index. Very good -decorated gilt. Canadian seamen who joined the RCN and went to England and served on RN ships. A history of a group of 150 Canadian naval reservists who were recruited into the Royal Navy in 1940 They received an accelerated officers training regime… Read more about this item

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1997, first US edition, 200 p. : ill. b/w, photographs, line drawings, on the endpapers, includes index. very good small bump on topboard/ very good with small repaired tear on dust jacket. Details and techniques for building a working model warship HMS Warrior 1860. The model was made a the shipbuilder's scale of 1:48.… Read more about this item

Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997, xc, 380 p., b/w map, includes index. During World War I, the German use of unrestricted submarine warfare nearly forced Britain out of the war. After the war, two Commanders, Waters and Barley, wrote a History which has been recognized as an authoritative study on the impact of the German campaign and defeat… Read more about this item

Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, xxxix, 628 p., b/w map, includes index and select bibliography. This book contains the U-boats situations and trends by the staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during World War II. The documents included demonstrate on a weekly, and in some cases a daily, basis what the Allies knew concerning U-boats during the Battle… Read more about this item

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, xvii, 714 p. b/w illustrations, includes index and listing of volumes in the series. The twelve essays include - The Journal of the Voyage of the Marigold to Iceland, 1654 : The Supply of Timber for the Royal Navy 1803 - 1830; The Autobiography of Chief Gunner Alexander Grant, HMS Lion at the Battle of… Read more about this item

World Ship Society - Trident Books¸ Tynemouth , 215 p. : ill. b/w, maps, plans of ships and guns. These battleships originally designed and built rapidly to fulfill an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I and were not used much until the World War II. Between 1914 and 1965 there were 42 monitors commissioned. Includes… Read more about this item

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987, first US edition, 192 p. ill. b/w, plans, lines and photos, includes bibliography and index. very good/ good - slight yellowing discolouration, mylar. An account of HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first sea-going warship completed in 1861 combining for the first time armoured iron construction, steam propeller drive and rifled breech-loading fire-power. After active… Read more about this item

The War at Sea published by HMSO, London: part of the 'History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series' : three volumes in four, ill. 4 f.p. (8 plates), 288 plates on 142 p. (1 double-page), 87 folding maps (74 coloured in outline), 30 full-page maps (6 coloured in outline), 17 maps in text ; 111 tables (7… Read more about this item

Invincible Conservations (1744-1758) Ltd.,1988, 119 p., folding line plates, includes index, beautifully illustrated in colour and bw. Very good/vg. It is about the ship, the wreck and the recovery. Built at Rochefort, L'Invincible a revolutionary design of a 74-gun ship was captured by the British in 1747. She had a remarkable career under the White Ensign. HMS Invincible was lost… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1959. 13th. good. tpb. Using both English and Spanish sources, Mattingly has given us a new look at the Spanish Armada, it’s creation and destruction. 443 pages

Little, Brown & Co., 1961. 1st. good +/good. The history of the British navy over the past 400 years. The book details the growth of both the British navy and the British empire, and how one made possible the other. 494 pages

Queen Ann's Press, 1986. 1st. very good/very good. From the development of the British navy in Tudor times to its decline at the end of the 20th century.  255 pages