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THE NAVAL FRONT painted by Donald Maxwell and Described by Gordon S. Maxwell ; First published in 1920. Interesting illustrations of the Royal Navy, covering actions in the North Sea, Euphrates, Coronel, etc. to bringing down zeppelins in the Thames.
In ‘The Zeebrugge Raid’ Philip Warner explains why the raid was needed and then planned and describes in some detail the roles of the individual units involved in this Combined Forces operation. The glossary covers the citations for the Victoria Cross, awards and decorations and a list of casualties.
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The Cuxhaven Raid by R. D.Layman - The World's first carrier air strike. On Christmas Day 1914 a small force of British seaplanes was launched from their carriers to attack the German airship base near Cuxhaven. This book sets out to describe the operation in detail for the first time, examining its preliminaries, planning, results, aftermath, and immediate influence, as well as its execution. This and other Royal Navy books for sale at camberpete.co.uk !
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Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. Volume 2 ‘Scapa Flo to the Dover Straits 1916 – 1818. Jutland, Dover Patrol, Zeebrugge etc.
A small booklet printed and published in Knocke, probably to commemorating the unveiling of a monument, representing St. George killing the dragon, erected to the heroes of Zeebrugge, on the coast of the North Sea, before the spot of their great deed.
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Click image for more details of this book which covers the work of the 10th. Cruiser Squadron in WW1, blockading the North Sea approaches to Northern Europe, mainly using armed merchant cruisers. The author served as a commander in this sevice.
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Arthur Hungerford Pollen was a well-known naval journalist, and this narrative of the Royal Navy in action (Coronel, Falklands, Jutland, Zeebrugge etc), following introductory chapters on principles of sea power, naval materiel, etc., is of interest as revealing how much, or how little, was known about the principal actions in 1918.
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The Dover Patrol; The Straits: Zeebrugge: Ostend. Including a narrative of the operations in the Spring of 1918 by “Jackstaff” (J. J. Bennett) with an introduction by H. W. Wilson; Author of ‘Ironclads in Action’.
Naval Records Society Vol. 152, (2007) Naval Intelligence from Germany: The reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 Edited by M. Seligman. Four officers held this post from the end of the First World War until the start of the Second and the information they back enabled the Admiralty policy makers to formulate a coherent response to the developing German naval challenge. ISBN-978-0-7546-6157-3 £20.00 plus postage at cost - Many others!
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Click for more information on THE SEA HERITAGE - this study by Jellicoe's Flag-Captain, later Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, in WW1 - a valuable book for its interesting material on the pre-war and war periods. The Jutland material is the highlight. This book and others for sale at camberpete.co.uk
CONVOYS, BLOCKADES and MYSTERY TOWERS: Captain D. J. Munro C.M.G., R.N. - Captain Munro was a Merchant Navy officer head hunted into the Navy for special duties. This work continues where the author's previous work, “Scapa Flow, A Naval Retrospect”, leaves off, in 1917. Munro, an officer who saw things in a slightly different perspective than the average naval officer, has interesting views on the problems facing the navy of the day.
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Captain Macintyre, tells of the Battle of Jutland as the culmination of the rise of the German Navy through the early skirmishes and clashes between the Royal and Imperial Navies in the 1914-15' period, the bombardment of Scarborough and Hartlepool and the lively Dogger Bank action in which the battle-cruiser Bluecher was sent to the bottom. Fascinating glimpses of Winston Churchill, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Beatty, Jellicoe and the German Admirals Hipper and Scheer are included.
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The Battle of Jutland took place on 31 May to 1 June 1916 as a plan to concentrate the German High Seas Fleet precisely against the numerically superior British Grand Fleet at a time and place of German choice, having lured the bulk of the Royal Navy into a trap in German waters. Jutland: The German Perspective - V. E. Tarrant
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Scrimgeour's wartime diaries and letters have been transcribed and compiled by descendant Richard Hallam and historian and screenwriter Mark Beynon. An introduction by Professor Andrew Lambert provides further naval and historical context. When 19-year-old Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life in HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he left an exceptional legacy — his personal diaries and letters spanning the years 1910 to 1916. Concentrating on the years of the First World War, this book presents a rare and unique insight into the naval war through the eyes of a young midshipman.
Spun yarn & Bell Bottoms: an interesting first-hand account of twenty years' service from sail training ships to battleships. During the Great War took part in the Gallipoli campaign in the new Portsmouth built battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth and later the light cruiser HMS Cardiff in the North Sea. Commodore F. P. Froëst-Carr went on to found The Nautical Training Corps for young people.
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