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The Königsberg Adventure by E. Keble Chatterton Sixth printing 1st. published 1932 by Hurst and Blackett Ltd., London

A navy cloth bound book with very faded gilt lettering to spine.The tight page block has a little foxing to edges and on some pages but pages are mostly clear - first and last few are affected most. Illustrations all present and clean and bright. Boards are lightly rubbed, corners and spine top and bottom show some wear but square and sound so condition of this becoming scarce title between GOOD PLUS and VERY GOOD MINUS. This copy has no wrapper but one can be seen here! 150 mm. x 220 mm. 2 87  pages.

Blurbs

THE KÖNIGSBERG ADVENTURE by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON
Not all the best yarns belong to fiction. Everyone loves a mystery story and few people fail to be thrilled by sea adventure. Here is a narrative as full of excitement, suspense and drama as any detective tale. There are the very essentials of the latter, but on a grand scale—the crime committed, the escape of the perpetrator, the false clues, the piecing together of slender threads, the cross-examination of witnesses, the thwarting of spies, the chase, the desperate efforts to get away. But it is all fact, and becomes more fascinating because the people were real and the principal characters are still alive.

The setting is on tropical seas, and rivers with their mangrove swamps. Reefs and islands, forests, moonlight, blazing sun, fast warships and aeroplanes, wireless and tiny steamboats, wonderful and breathless brave exploits by determined men on a gorgeous adventure : these are the qualities of this exceptional volume. 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 unnavigable river, but after thousands of miles had been searched by British men-of-war, was finally discovered and destroyed.

This volume, based entirely on original documents and first-hand material from actual participants, is at once of permanent historical value and an absorbing record.
With 28 Illustrations and Maps.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Some items in list are linked to images at the bottom of this page

H.M.S. " SEVERN "- frontispiece
S.M.S. " KÖNIGSBERG "
THE S.S. " PRASIDENT "
H.M.S. " CHATHAM " IN ACTION
THE GERMAN COLLIER "SOMALIA"
DELTA OF THE RUFIJI RIVER .
THE FAMOUS TUG " ADJUTANT "
ENTRANCE TO THE SIMBA URANGA
THE EX-CABLE STEAMER " DUPLEX "
THE BLOCKSHIP
PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE BLOCKING OPERATION
THE AVIATOR WHO SPOTTED FROM THE SKY THE BLOCKADE-RUNNER
S.M.S. " KÖNIGSBERG " IN HIDING
IN COMMAND OF THE MONITORS
THE MONITORS LEAVE MALTA
UNPACKING A CAUDRON .
OFF MAFIA ISLAND .
STRIPPED FOR THE FRAY .
TAKEN DURING ACTION .
THE MONITORS' OPERATIONS
THE RESCUE ON JULY II
TOWARDS THE ENEMY
THE STRICKEN " KÖNIGSBERG "
THE FINAL INSPECTION
NO FURTHER TROUBLE
ON THE LOOK-OUT
THE TELEPHONE ROAD
THE TROPHIES

MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE NAVAL OPERATIONS ON VICTORIA NYANZA
THE AFRICAN COAST-LINE - endpaper map
EAST AFRICA AS IT WAS IN THE GREAT WAR - endpaper map

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MONITORS LEAVE MALTA

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HMS SEVERN beached at Zanzibar