Search Results: Titles starting with U from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2005. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full chrome-embossed quarter-bound cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 204. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... U-505 is a German Type IXC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured on 4 June 1944 by United States Navy Task Group 22.3. Her codebooks, Enigma machine, and other secret materials found on board helped the Allied codebreakers.

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1991. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy Table, [11 by 8.5 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 49, . Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1990. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed gray flannel cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, paginated by issue. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Oxford, England: Osprey, 2013. 7th Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [24.5cm/9.5 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 48., indexed Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2012. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xiv, 306, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2013. First Paperbound Edition. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. xii, 307, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Immediately on completion of his doctoral work in 1956, the University of Alabama appointed him assistant professor in the faculty of history. He was promoted to associate professor in 1963, and to professor of history in 1967. He retired in 1993 after serving as interim chairman of the history department during a critical time of transition for the history department. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also a member of the American Historical Association, Society for Nautical Research, World Ship Society, Naval Historical Foundation, and the United States Naval Institute. He received numerous awards for his publications on naval history, including his book,… Read More

Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories, 1984. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, (8 by 11inches), paperbound w/ pictorial covers, pp. 48. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, schematics and so forth. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

U.S.S. Chaumont: U. S. Navy, May 1946. Plate Planche. In exceptionally good condition. Pinted slip of paper measuring 2.5 by 3.5 inches. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... USS Chaumont, one of twelve 13,400-ton (displacement) Hog Island Type B (Design 1024) transports built for the U. S. Shipping Board at Hog Island, Pennsylvania, was laid down in November 1918 as the Shipping Board's Shope, launched in March 1920 as the U.S. Army's Chaumont, and completed a few months later. Excess to Army needs, she was transferred to the Navy and commissioned in November 1921. From her home port at San Francisco, Chaumont commenced a career of trans-Pacific troop service that initially consisted of voyages between California and Manila via Honolulu. In early 1924 Wallace Simpson, future mistress of the Prince of Wales, sailed to China aboard the Chaumont. Her husband happened to be stationed there as commander of the USS Pampanga. She entered into the… Read More

1890s. Photograph. In exceptionally good condition. An original photo of the Sara way before she was converted to a aircraft carrier. ... USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The ship entered service in 1928 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for her entire career. Saratoga and her sister ship, Lexington, were used to develop and refine carrier tactics in a series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these included successful surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was one of three prewar US fleet aircraft carriers, along with Enterprise and Ranger, to serve throughout World War II.

San Diego: Ben Davis White, 1947. First Impression. Post Card. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Post Card, [5.5 by 3.5 inches]. with Point Loma in background. Sierra repaired landing craft support ships and destroyers for the anticipated invasion of the Japanese mainland, but the end of hostilities with Japan on 15 August 1945 ended the assignment. The ship sailed from the Philippine Islands on 6 September for Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Bay), Okinawa; Jinsen (Incheon), Korea; and Shanghai, China. She arrived at Shanghai on 12 October 1945 and remained there until 6 February 1946 when she sailed to San Francisco, California for yard availability. Sierra was deployed to the Western Pacific two more times in the next three years. Her last assignment terminated at San Diego, California on 8 April 1949; and, two months later, she sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, which was her new home port, arriving there on 29 July 1949. She serviced ships there until 6 January… Read More

Vestal, New York: Almar Press, 1991. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 140, indexed. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

By the early-mid-1930s, de Havilland had a reputation for innovative high-speed aircraft with the DH.88 Comet racer. The later DH.91 Albatross airliner pioneered the composite wood construction used for the Mosquito. The 22-passenger Albatross could cruise at 210 miles per hour (340 km/h) at 11,000 feet (3,400 m), 100 mph (160 km/h) faster than the Handley Page H.P.42 and other biplanes it was replacing.[10][nb 1] The wooden monocoque construction not only saved weight and compensated for the low power of the de Havilland Gipsy Twelve engines used by this aircraft, but simplified production and reduced construction time.: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1998. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [8.5 by 11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 49. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A tank destroyer or tank hunter is a type of armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a… Read More

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 178, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The story of how British naval intelligence was able to break German naval codes in World War I is fully explored by the noted U-boat historian Robert Grant. Examining radio interception records, telegrams, and the records of the Admiralty salvage department, Grant has unearthed an amazing tale of resourcefulness and danger. Along with collecting cipher information from many differing sources, intelligence personnel in Room 40, the nerve center in the Admiralty, sent Royal Navy divers to collect data from U-boat wrecks around Great Britain and Ireland and had ground crews comb through the wreckage of crashed zeppelins. Their efforts paid off. With their new-found… Read More

Oxford UK: Osprey Military, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full pictorial cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 147, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, illustrations &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [25.625cm/10.25 inches], full pictorial cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 192, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2012. First Impression. new. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 48, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

San Diego: National Steel & Shipbuilding, 1997. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound presentation ,folder Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. USNS Yano (T-AKR-297) was originally constructed as the container ship Leise Maersk in 1980. In 1987 the ship was lengthened and again in the 1990s before it was purchased by the United States Navy. When the transfer was complete the ship underwent a conversion to a large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship at NASSCO.

Coronado, California: USS Coronado, 2014. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In 2002, the U.S. Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. The Navy initially ordered two trimaran hulled ships from General Dynamics, which became known as the Independence-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Indedence. Even-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Independence-class trimaran design, while odd-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the conventional monohull Freedom-class littoral combat ship. The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Independence-class design. These seaframes were designed be outfitted with reconfigurable payloads, called mission packages, which can… Read More

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co, 1987. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. viii, 124. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Nicknamed "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Launched in 1936, she was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship

Pula, Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) : Uljanik, 1986. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full aqua-blue cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 158 Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Uljanik was founded in 1856, in the carefully selected bay of Pula as a shipyard of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The foundation stone was laid on December 9 by Empress Elisabeth of Austria so, this date is celebrated as the anniversary of the shipyard, one of the oldest operational shipyards in the world. Almost two years after laying the foundation stone - on October 5, 1858, the first ship - SMS Kaiser - having a deadweight of 5,194 tonnes, was launched from the berth. The construction of 55 ships of various type for the Austro-Hungarian fleet having a total deadweight of 53,588 tonnes followed. It was named after an islet on which there used to grow olive trees… Read More