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THE AUXILIARY PATROL

by E. Keble Chatterton

First published 1923 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London

Price 25.00 plus Postage

Quote from the introduction:
"We knew during the war that German officers and men of the U-boat service held our Auxiliary Patrol in awe, because they frequently ran away from our improvised craft, and on occasions when these armed yachts, fishing vessels, or motor craft destroyed enemy submarines, the prisoners were only too ready to admit their feelings verbally."

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CONTENTS

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. HOW IT BEGAN
  3. CARRYING ON
  4. TRAWLERS AND DRIFTERS
  5. THE AUXILIARY PATROL AND THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE
  6. AT THE DARDANELLES AND ELSEWHERE
  7. MINE-SWEEPERS AND MOTOR CRAFT
  8. SUBMARINES AND THE AUXILIARY PATROL
  9. SMALL SHIPS AND GREAT UNDERTAKINGS
  10. SUBMARINES VERSUS THE AUXILIARY PATROL
  1. RAIDS IN THE STRAITS
  2. THE GREAT CRISIS
  3. DESTROYERS OF DRIFTERS
  4. PATROLS AND CONVOYS
  5. PATROL ADVENTURES
  6. THE FRUITS OF SUCCESS
  7. THE GREAT SURRENDER
  8. THE OPERATIONS AGAINST ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND
  9. THE LAST PHASE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • A 'Kil' class gunboat
  • A British floating mine
  • Floating Mine
  • Sinking a mine by rifle fire
  • Auxiliary Patrol Types
  • H.M. Drifter Daisy VI.
  • M.L. 181
  • The Arctic Whale
  • ** an M.L. out of the water
  • Foredeck of an M.L.
  • H.M. Patrol Gunboat Kilfree
  • Coastal Motor-Boat
  • M.L. Making a Smoke Screen
  • Monitor Bombarding Belgian Coast
  • Armed Motor Boat 'Mimi'
  • Mimi on the Road
  • Mimi on the Railway
  • Mimi going down the Lualaba
  • Natives Assisting Mimi and Toutou over the Shallows
  • Paddling Mimi down the Lualaba
  • M.L.'s 13-Pounder Gun
  • A Dockyard Case
  • Skipper and Crew of a Drifter
  • M.L. Ashore
  • Salving the Nubian
  • Armed Trawler John Cormack
  • Trawlers round their Mother Ship in Portland Harbour
  • M.L. 181 going out to meet American Destroyers
  • Smoke Screen Apparatus
  • Smoke Screen Apparatus
  • UC 44 after being Salved
  • A Trawler's Crew
  • Trawler Daniel Henley
  • On Fire
  • Zeebrugge Viaduct at Shore End
  • Bridge of H.M.S. Vindictive
  • M.L.'s Making Smoke Screen
  • M.L. 110
  • Lighthouse at Seaward End of Zeebrugge Mole Extension
  • Zeebrugge Mole
  • Guns on Mole Extension
  • Zeebrugge Mole
  • M.L. 282
  • M.L.'s at Dunkirk
  • Deck of H.M.S. Vindictive
  • H.M.S. Vindictive in Dover Harbour
  • Group of M.L. Officers
  • Newly Built Mersey Class Trawlers
  • Dorothea

DIAGRAMS, ETC., IN THE TEXT


FIG.

  1. 1. The Tyne Minefield
  2. Minefields early in November, 1914
  3. Net Drifter Towing Nets
  4. Diagram of Drifter and Nets
  5. Plan to illustrate Engagement of May 1, 1915
  6. Plan of White Sea Minefield
  7. Belgian Coast Barrage
  8. Lake Tanganyika
  9. Plan of Engagement between Mimi, Toulon, and Kingani
  10. Plan of Dover Straits
  11. Plan of Otranto Strait
  12. Plan of Engagement with U 48, November 24, 1917
  13. Plan of Zeebrugge Harbour
  14. Plan illustrating the Concentration against Zeebrugge and Ostend on St. George's Day, 1918
  15. Plan of Approaches to Zeebrugge and Ostend on St. George's Day, 1918
THE AUXILIARY PATROL by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON: A once blue cloth, now very faded, bound book with black or dark blue lettering to front board and spine, the top and bottom of which are bumped, some shelf wear to extremities and a small impact mark half way down the long edge of the front board, but still square and tight. Place cursor on image of title page, RIGHT, to view front board.

THE AUXILIARY PATROL by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON:. Page block tight, with some foxing, particularly to pastedowns. Front free end paper missing. Pages generally bright and clean with a few isolated fox marks, but overall tidy. Illustrations complete and in excellent condition. No jacket. REMOVE CURSOR TO REVERT TO IMAGE OF TITLE PAGE!"

THE AUXILIARY PATROL by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON

First published 1923 by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., London

A once blue cloth, now very faded, bound book with black or dark blue lettering to front board and spine, the top and bottom of which are bumped, some shelf wear to extremities and a small impact mark half way down the long edge of the front board, but still square and tight. Page block tight, with some foxing, particularly to pastedowns. Front free end paper missing. Pages generally bright and clean with a few isolated fox marks, but overall tidy. Illustrations complete and in excellent condition. No jacket.

Condition VERY GOOD MINUS

 

 
Book 150 mm.wide x 220 mm. tall x 41 mm. 332 pages.
Weight unwrapped 0.76 kilo
a reduced image taken from a full page illustration ' MIMI '

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The William Heinemann Ltd. first, 1924, edition of Commander Keble Chatterton's ‘Seamen All’ covers adventure at sea from the heyday of the sailing ships to the Great War; including Karl Spindler’s attempt to land Roger Casement and arms from the ‘Aud’ in Ireland. It is in a larger format than the Nautilus Library and is illustrated throughout in black and white. CLICK TO SEE PAGE ! Commander Keble Chatterton in ‘Seamen All’ covers adventure at sea from the heyday of the sailing ships to the Great War; including Karl Spindler’s attempt to land Roger Casement and arms from the ‘Aud’ in Ireland. No one, after finishing the book, will be disposed to deny that, sail or steam, the romance of the sea abides for all time. THE KÖNIGSBERG ADVENTURE by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON: For the first time the full and complete account is given of how the cruiser Königsberg, after sinking the British S.S. City of Winchester, and then surprising and sinking H.M.S. Pegasus, hid herself for months up an apparently un-navigable river, but after thousands of miles had been searched by British men-of-war, was finally discovered and destroyed. WHALERS AND WHALING: E. Keble Chatterton describes the developement of whaling by the northern european and american peoples in an interesting book but warns that whales have always been a threatened species. THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON: This contemporary account written with official assistance, and with first-hand information from participants themselves, describes the amazing withdrawal from Dunkirk of the British Expeditionary Force, one of the greatest maritime feats throughout all naval history.

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