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National Maritime Museum “Guide to Maritime. Britain is the definitive guide to Britain’s great maritime’ heritage. It : is a. region-by-region account of the maritime, history of this seafaring nation. In the company. of one of Britain’s leading yachting journalists circumnavigate the British Isles, exploring en route places of maritime significance.
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National Maritime Museum “Guide to Maritime. Britain is the definitive guide to Britain’s great maritime’ heritage. It : is a. region-by-region account of the maritime, history of this seafaring nation. In the company. of one of Britain’s leading yachting journalists circumnavigate the British Isles, exploring en route places of maritime significance.
Author=Keith Wheatley
Pages=208
Published=1990
Book Condtion=Ex public library book.library plate and stamp.generally excellent condition
| Weight | 980 g |
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A pictorial history of seamen and the sea. Goldsmith-Carter covers sailors from the ancient Egyptians through the 1960s. Both civilian and Naval mariners are shown.
This work contains one hundred biographies which were published in “The Daily Telegraph” during the past twenty years – men of the Navy, Marines and Fleet Air Arm, as well as the merchant fleet. They include such heroes as the Atlantic convoy commander Peter Gretton and the submariner Godfrey Place, VC; the yachtsman and U-boat hunter Stan Darling as well as the corvette commander Charles Cuthbertson, model for the captain in The Cruel Sea. Bill Sparks, the cockleshell hero, and Derek Pounds, who fought behind the lines in Korea, represent the pluck of the Marines while “Hooch” Williamson, who led the attack on Taranto, and Ken Pattison, who had the best claim to have sunk the Bismarck, demonstrate all the dash of the FAA. Written with humour and insight, here are tales of the derring-do, skilled seamanship and steady judgement which characterises the Senior Service.
Pages 1 – 836. A history of ships and shipping. Chapters on signalling – buoys and beacons – lightships – diving for pearls – house flags and funnels. Etc.etc.
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