WW1: Convoys,Blockades and Mystery Towers

CONVOYS, BLOCKADES
and MYSTERY TOWERS

by
Captain D. J. Munro C.M.G., R.N.

1st. published 1932 by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.

CONDITION
Black cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine. Top and bottom of spine are just starting to fray and board corners are a little rubbed at the very corner but still sharp. Hinges are unbroken and the page block is tight and firm. Endpapers are browned and there is a little foxing throughout. Quite an attractive copy. At least VERY GOOD condition.

160 mm. x 240 mm.. x 30 mm. 208 pages Price £15.00 plus postage

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. His ideas for convoys and his appreciation that loading, discharging, berthing and routing as well as the problem that large passenger ships would be kept from sailing for days awaiting the arrival of often one, not very important, passenger in the Middle and far East unnecessarily put great strain on the Home Front. Of particular interest to me was his description, accompanied by photographs of the construction and eventual placing of the Nab Tower.

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