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SURRENDERED SOME NAVAL WAR SECRETS Illustrated by photographs and with sketches by 1st [no date 192?] Published by the author, Cross Deep, Twickenham. |
A navy cloth bound book with gilt titles to spine and front board. Imperial German ensign decoration to front board. Only lightly shelf worn. Page block front and bottom edges rough cut; smooth cut top edge has some brown spots, a few of which have leached a little into a few pages but generally unmarked and bright; all photographs are present and perfect. An attractive copy in at least VERY GOOD condition. 205mm. x 260mm. 52mm. £45.00 plus P & P |
Contents
Chapter 1. |
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| BRITISH NAVAL DISASTERS IN I 9I 4-"ABOUKIR," " CRESSY," " HOGUE," " HAWKE " AND "AUDACIOUS "-THE GERMAN RAIDERS, " MOEWE " AND " GREIF "-GERMAN MINELAYERS-THE CRUISE OF THE " BARALONG " | ||
Chapter 2. |
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| H.M.S. " CRYSTAL PALACE "-" SECRET CAVES " | ||
Chapter 3. |
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| THE BLOCKADE-THE STRANGLEHOLD-MY FIRST CAPTURE -THE WINDJAMMER-SEA SHANTIES-THE FIRST OF APRIL-A SWEDISH SPY-LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S ACTIVITIES-THE ICELAND MAIL PACKET . | ||
Chapter 4. |
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| A BRITISH NAVAL TRAGEDY-ADMIRAL CRADOCK AVENGED | ||
Chapter 5. |
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| THE TRUE STORY OF LORD KITCHENER'S ADVERSITIES- -THE BETRAYAL OF HIS LAST JOURNEY-THE ABDICATION OF THE TSAR-RUSSIAN SOLDIERS DRAFTED THROUGH ENGLAND-MY CHUM SHACKLETON . |
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Chapter 6. |
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| A NORTHERN NAVAL BASE-THE PHANTOM SUBMARINE- A NAVAL THEATRE-AMERICAN MINE BASE IN A WHISKY DISTILLERY-POACHING IN CROMARTY FIRTH -A TRIP ACROSS SCOTLAND WITH GERMAN NAVAL PRISONERS-NEW DEVICES IN WARSHIPS-WARSHIP PETS-H.M. KING GEORGE V'S VISIT TO INVERGORDON -GERMAN BATTLESHIP " BADEN . | ||
Chapter 7. |
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| ST. GEORGE'S DAY, 1918 . | ||
Chapter 8. |
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| THE GREAT SURRENDER-THE END |
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| INDEX . |
List of Illustrations
- Rear-Admiral Von Meurer Arriving in H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth November
15th, 1918. Ordered to Surrender the German Fleet - " Griff "
- H.M.S. Cressy Sunk in North Sea, 1914
- H.M.S. Hogue Sunk in North Sea, 1914
- H.M.S. Audacious Sinking in the North Sea, 1914
- H.M.S. Hawke Sunk in North Sea, 1914
- Six-inch Naval Gun Interior .
- Cordite Charge Six-inch Gun .
- Compass Class—H.M.S. Crystal Palace .
- B.L. Six-inch Wire Mark VII Gun. Breech Mechanism
- Boat Drill—H.M.S. Crystal Palace .
- Six-inch Naval Gun. Firing Mechanism .
- Six-inch Naval Gun and Carriage .
- The Blockade. Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.V.O.
- and Staff Officers H.M.S. Alsatian, l0th Cruiser Squadron .
- Naval Officer H.M.S. Alsatian
- Naval Officers H.M.S. Alsatian.
- Naval Officers H.M.S. Alsatian.
- Naval Officers H.M.S. Alsatian.
- " Away Sea-Boat " Blockade. H.M.S. Alsatian Boarding Vessels North Atlantic
- Releasing " Paravane " for Destroying Mines
- A Captured Prize. North Atlantic .
- The Windjammer .
- Off Iceland in Winter
- Old Sailing Days
- 1st April Turnip Bomb, H.M.S. Alsatian
- Discovered in Swedish Steamer. German Mine Chart, Skager-Rak, 28th July, 1916
- German Warship Dresden.
- German Warship Karlsruhe .
- H.M.S. Monmouth. Sunk off Coronel, November 1st, 1915. Every Soul was Lost
- H.M.S. Good Hope. Sunk off Coronel, November 1st, 1915. Rear- Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and Ship's Company Lost in Action
- Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Drowned off Marwick Head, Orkneys, in H.M.S. Hampshire, June 5th, 1916
- H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth Cleared for Action
- Beach at La La Baba
- H.M.S. Hampshire. Sunk off Orkney Islands, June 5th, 1916. Lord Kitchener and Nearly All the Crew were Lost
- Battleship in a Gale.
- Invergordon Dockyard
- Invergordon Harbour
- H.M.S. Natal. Sunk, December, 1915. Invergordon. 405 Lives Lost
- H.M.S. Natal. After Explosion in Cromarty Firth, December, 1915. 405 Lives Lost
- Quest. Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921. Leaving the Thames for the Antarctic
- Russian Ice-Breaker Sviatogor .
- Major Sir Ernest Shackleton, C.V.O. Russian Expedition
- Our Queen, " God Bless Her ! "
- H.M.S. Majestic Sinking in Dardanelles, 1915
- H.M.S. Mars
- Admiral Sir Edmund R. Pears, K.B.E., C.B., and Officers in H.M.S. Mars, Invergordon
- Mars, Akbar, Algiers, No. I Dock, No. 2 Dock, Invergordon Naval Harbour
- Aeroplane Leaving British Battleship
- German Warship Friederich-der-Grosse
- Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., D.S.O.,
- H.M.S. Royal Oak in Dry Dock, Invergordon
- " Griff," 1st Lieutenant H.M.S. Mars, and Rear-Admiral Alexandra Farrington, R.N., C.M.G., Invergordon Naval Base
- H.M. King George and Admiral Beatty, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., D.S.O., LL.D., D.C.L. in H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. Eight Naval Buttons or Six ?
- Ship's Goat, H.M.S. Isis
- " Major." H.M.S. Mars. The Ship's Dog
- German Battleship Baden Invergordon, 1918
- German Warship König
- German Warship Kronprinz William
- " Cease Fire " Historic Army Telegram Announcing the Cessation of Hostilities
- Admiral Beatty at Surrender of the German Fleet, November 21st, 1918
- H.M. King George V., Rosyth, 1918
- German Warship Seydlitz Surrendering
- German Warship Bremse
- German Warship Bayern
- German Destroyers Surrendered
- H.M.S. Revenge, Scapa Flow
- German Warship Frankfurt
- German Warship Cöln
- German Warship Derfflinger
- German Warship Von Der Tann
- The Peace Pact
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