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SEA FIGHTS OF THE GREAT WAR
by
W. L. Wyllie R.A.
and
M. F. Wren

1st 1918 Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd., London

A blue cloth bound book with navy titles to spine and front board. Spine is sunned and faded - Boards marked but corners still sharp although, as can be seen from illustration below, the bottom corner of the front board has, at some time, been bent - this is the only real damage apart from sunning/foxing and neglect..

Pages clean fairly tight but some foxing scattered throughout but coloured illustrations on high quality paper are generally free of foxing. Page block starting to loosen but all illustrations are complete.

GOOD PLUS condition
WEIGHT = 1.15 kilo unwrapped

£18.00 plus P & P
WW1 Wyllie illustrations naval actions first.nine months

Contents

Chapter 1.
   THE RIVAL: FLEETS

Chapter 2.
.

   INCIDENTS IN HOME WATERS : THE NAVAL REVIEW-MINES-THE HELIGOLAND BIGHT ACTION-MINOR DOINGS .
Chapter 3.
   GOEBEN AND BRESLAU-THE FAR EAST-SIEGE OF TSINGTAU .
Chapter 4.

   SAMOA AND KAISER WILHELM'S LAND - THE CAMEROONSSHEIK SAID-THE PERSIAN GULF
Chapter 5.

   CLEARING THE TRADE ROUTES : CARMANIA AND CAP TRAFALGAR -THE END OF EMDEN
Chapter 6.


   THE BATTLE OF CORONEL : COUNT VON SPEE'S SQUADRON- CRUISE OF DRESDEN - THE BATTLE OF CORONEL - CAPT. BRANDT, H.M.S. MONMOUTH
Chapter 7.
   THE BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
Chapter 8.

   THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE BELGIAN COAST-THE RAIDS- THE DOGGER BANK ACTION .
Chapter 10.
   NAVAL OPERATIONS AGAINST TURKEY
   
  INDEX .

List of Colour Plates

  1. BEFORE THE WAR : THE GERMAN FLEET AT KIEL
  2. THE GREAT REVIEW AT SPITHEAD .
  3. DESTROYERS ENGAGING THE GERMAN CRUISER MAINZ
  4. THE BATTLE CRUISERS ARRIVE JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME
  5. AFTER THE BATTLE : TRANSFERRING THE DEAD, WOUNDED AND PRISONERS
  6. CARMANIA ENGAGES CAP TRAFALGAR
  7. CARMANIA AND CAP TRAFALGAR: THE END OF THE BATTLE .
  8. SYDNEY AND EMDEN OFF NORTH KEELING ISLAND
  9. THE TRACK OF THE HUN
  10. INVINCIBLE AND INFLEXIBLE STEAMING OUT OF PORT STANLEY IN CHASE
  11. INVINCIBLE AND INFLEXIBLE IN CHASE OF VON SPEE'S SQUADRON
  12. SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU : THE END OF THE CHASE
  13. LEIPZIG SINKING
  14. KENT AND NURNBERG WITH A PASSING SAILING SHIP
  15. A GERMAN SAILING SHIP (WARNING A MERCHANT SHIP OF A MINEFIELD)
  16. LIGHT CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS PUTTING TO SEA
  17. DOGGER BANK BATTLE : AURORA BEGINS THE ACTION
  18. LION, TIGER AND PRINCESS ROYAL IN CHASE
  19. BATTLE CRUISERS, LIGHT CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS IN CHASE
  20. THE LAST OF BLUCHER
  21. A SUBMARINE TAKING A REST
  22. AMETHYST ENGAGING TURKISH BATTERIES AT KEPHEZ POINT
  23. BOMBARDING TURKISH BATTERIES AT CHANAK, MARCH 18, 1915
  24. BOMBARDING THE NARROWS, MARCH 18, 1915
12. SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU: THE END OF THE CHASE. Click this image or the list link to see larger imagE on my site! If, for any reason, you would like to see any of the other illustrations from this book please email me and I will put them on my site for a few days for you. (They are large files and I can't clog up the site with them)
13. KENT AND NURNBERG WITH A PASSING SAILING SHIP. Click this image or the list link to see larger image on my site! If, for any reason, you would like to see any of the other illustrations from this book please email me and I will put them on my site for a few days for you. (They are large files and I can't clog up the site with them)

List of black and white plates

SPITHEAD : ARRIVAL OF THE YOUNG EMPEROR, 1889
METEOR WINNING THE QUEEN'S CUP .
HOHENZOLLERN AT KIEL
MINE-LAYER KONIGIN LUISE SINKING, AUGUST 5, 1914 .
ACTION OFF THE TEXEL, OCTOBER 28, 1914: SHELLING THE TORPEDO BOATS
ACTION OFF THE TEXEL, OCTOBER 28, 1914: THE LAST TORPEDO BOAT SINKS
THE SCREEN
MINE-SWEEPERS WAITING FOR THE FOG TO LIFT .
BOMBARDMENT OF TSINGTAU (SUWO, TANGO, TRIUMPH)
DESTROYERS PATROLLING
MINE-SWEEPERS
A SUBMARINE
THE SPLASHES OF CANOPUS' S GUNS
CANOPUS AT PORT STANLEY .
SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU ENGAGED BY ADMIRAL STURDEE
INFLEXIBLE ALTERS COURSE 12 POINTS TO GET OUT OF THE SMOKE
END OF KONGSBERG IN THE RUFIJI DELTA
BOMBARDMENT OF THE BELGIAN COAST .
ON BOARD A LIGHT CRUISER : SIX-INCH GUN IN ACTION
ODD SCRAPS BUILT INTO A SHIP .
A TORPEDOED CRUISER ESCORTED TO PORT
ODD CRAFT FLYING THE WHITE ENSIGN
THE EYES OF THE FLEET .
SEDD EL BAH R BURNING AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT BY QUEEN ELIZABETH AND AGAMEMNON
GALLIPOLI : RIVER CLYDE PUSHING IN FOR V BEACH
GALLIPOLI : TROOPS DISEMBARKING ON W. BEACH
5. MAP Fight between Emden and Sydney. Click this image or the list link to see larger image on my site! If, for any reason, you would like to see any of the other illustrations from this book please email me and I will put them on my site for a few days for you. (They are large files and I can't clog up the site with them)
4. (black & white) Mine-Layer Königen Luise sinking August 15th. 1914. Click this image or the list link to see larger image on my site! If, for any reason, you would like to see any of the other illustrations from this book please email me and I will put them on my site for a few days for you. (They are large files and I can't clog up the site with them)
4. (black & white) Mine-Layer Königen Luise sinking August 15th. 1914. Click this image or the list link to see larger image on my site! If, for any reason, you would like to see any of the other illustrations from this book please email me and I will put them on my site for a few days for you. (They are large files and I can't clog up the site with them)

List of maps and plans

  1. ACTION OFF THE TEXEL, OCTOBER 28, 1914
  2. SKETCH OF SHATT EL ARAB .
  3. THE WORLD SHOWING CHIEF TRADE ROUTES .
    ISLAND OF TRINIDAD (CARMANIA AND CAP TRAFALGAR)
  4. ILLUSTRATING THE FIGHT BETWEEN SYDNEY AND EMDEN
  5. MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE COURSE OF VON SPEE'S SQUADRON
  6. DELTA OF THE RUFIJI RIVER
  7. THE CHASE OFF THE DOGGER BANK
  8. THE COMBINED FLEETS IN THE DARDANELLES .
These images are intended to show the general appearence and condition of this book. If there is any thing else you would like to know or see then please ask, and if I can, I will scan or look it up for you!

W. L. Wyllie R.A. and M. F. Wren - Sea Fights of the Great War - Naval Incidents during the first nine months illustrated in B & W by this famous artist. Published 1918.
"WYLLIE'S SEA FIGHTS"

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SEA FIGHTS of the GREAT WAR
( The first 9 months - published 1918 )

or

MORE SEA FIGHTS of the GREAT WAR
( Including the Battleo of Jutland - puplished 1919 )
W. L. Wyllie, C. Owen and W. D. Kirkpatrick - More Sea Fights of the Great War - Including the Battle of Jutland with 24 colour and 26 Black and White Plates by W. L. Wyllie, R.A. Published 1919 as a follow up to the artists previos work published 1n 1918 - Sea Fights of the Great War - Naval Incidents during the First Nine Months.

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