Capt N Peter (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Illustrated. C J M Carter "Bermuda Service Ends" / Robert Simper "Square-Rigger Movements" / C J N Carter "Capt. J T Sheffield and the 'Newfoundland'" / J H Isherwood"Netherlands Steamship Co's 'Prinses Juliana' of 1910" / Peter Mummery "Hospital Afloat" / E W Argyle "Explorers and Scientists" / The Holyhead Route to Ireland/ R R Rowland"Saga of the 'Calpean Star'" / Norman J Brouwer "The Last American Schooners" (SL#49).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date stated but about 1977. Previous owner's name on inside cover page. Deals with rules re lights and signals, vessels in distress, aircraft, special cautions eg firing areas, life saving. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

Condition: Good. Second Edition. 116 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition, fabric covered boards, some wear to covers and spine, top and bottom of spine worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Various (illustrator). Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP].

9th edition. 128, (2 publications) PP with 5 pages for sketches. Fp (in colour): Buoys. FEP (in colour): Map of a buoyed channel. Hard cover, gilt title on front board. Light foxing. Very good. Small format: 16.2 x 10.2. . Containing the 1960 Collision Regulations, Life Saving Rules, Grain Rules and many Official Notices.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Tenth Edition. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front, no dustjacket. 127pp. Colour frontispiece and front endpapers. Not library copy, neat name in ink to ffep. (10/3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. f'cap8vo, eleventh edition, pp,127, coloured frontispiece, illustrated, coloured illustrated leading endpapers, gilt titled navy cloth, publisher's advertisements to rear, some notes on the rear endpapers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Mossman (illustrator). BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Harvie Brydon. COVER DESIGN BY: Peter Mossman. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; Cadet and Midshipman; Courses and Cruisers; Destroyers; Airborne; H. M. S. Apollo; Waiting for War; Three Months of War; The Wilhelmshaven Raid; At The Admiralty; Dakar; Douala and Libreville; Hatston; Find the Bismark; To The Eastern Fleet; Madagascar; Katukurunda; Reunion, and a New Ship; H. M. S. Trouncer at Sea; Canada; Epilogue; Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: This book is an autobiographical account of Hank Rotherham's life in the Royal Navy. As a young officer he became convinced that the aircraft was the weapon of the future and as a result he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm's course for Observers--the men who sat in the back seat of naval aircraft to navigate, spot enemy shipping, observe the fall of shot for ship's gunners, and take aerial photographs. In the early days of the war he was an Observer aboard HMS Courageous when she was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. Later the same year his expertise as an observer was put to use by the RAF in a raid on the German Navy dockyard at Wilhelmshaven. Once again he was lucky to survive as half the bomber force was shot down in this daylight raid. He subsequently served at the Admiralty, where he had an inside view on a variety of naval operations in 1940. He took part in the abortive expedition to Dakar with General de Gaulle, and the more successful capture of Douala and Libreville with General Leclerc. Following these tropical adventures he was stationed in the Orkney Islands where he became the first CO of the infamous RNAS Twatt. It was while he was here that he took part in the crucial reconnaissance flight which determined that the German battleship Bismarck had slipped into the North Atlantic. His next appointment took him to the Eastern Fleet as air advisor to Admiral Somerville. Here he took part in the invasion of Madagascar, and was then given command of RNAS Katukurunda in Ceylon, the Navy's biggest Air Station. He ended the war as Captain of the escort carrier Trouncer, and then accepted a posting to Canada as Director of Naval Aviation. Rotherham provides an interesting look at life as a Naval officer in the late 1930's, and gives us some fascinating insights into some of the well-known and some of the not-so-well-known events of the war. Born in England on the last day of 1906, Hank Rotherham joined the Royal Navy in 1920. He volunteered for the FAA's Observer course because of his conviction that the aircraft was to be the weapon of the future. A bright and dedicated young officer, he was promoted quickly, attaining the rank of Commander in 1939. Later in the war, as CO of the Royal Navy's largest air Station he was promoted to Acting Captain, being the youngest officer in the service to reach that rank. After the war he was posted to Canada as director of Naval Aviation. At the end of this tour of duty, having been passed over for promotion to the substantive rank of Captain, he opted to retire from the RN and settle in Canada, his wife's homeland. He took up a hardware business in Knowlton, Quebec, before moving into real estate. Now retired, he finds himself fully employed in community projects in Knowlton. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Condition: Very good. 1954, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp334, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Cousteau, Capt. Jacques-Yves (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Startling Evidence That Russia Is Waging Weather War On The World!; Fred Russell's 1963 'Pigskin Preview' - includes photos of Dick Butkas, Roger Staubach, Mel Renfro, and more ; "The Living Sea" - condensed book by Jacques Cousteau; The Frankenstein Spy That Surgery Created - To Stay Alive As A British Agent in Occupied Holland Jan Riebeek Became a Monster; England's Profitable Experiment in Legal Gambling; Voodoo - The Kookie Cult That Won't Die; Fallbrook, California - Town That Refused to Say Uncle to Uncle - What Happened When Uncle Sam threatened 6,000 people with the loss of their water rights; Today's Hunting Clothes Step Out of the Past; America's New Hide-and-Seek Barbary Sheep in New Mexico; The Case of the Instant Deer - Hunting Adventure With Color Photos; Super Sniffer of the Subway System - For 35 Years Kelly prevented explosions in New York's subway system; New Optics For Pistols; My Lifelong Fight With Fouled Up Fishburners - Russell Annabel recounts driving Alaskan sled dogs; Smokers' Sculpture - color photos of elaborate carved pipes; Frank Sprenz - The Crook Who Couldn't Be Caught; Color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Peter Thyness Snowless Ski-jumping in Norway; Great ads; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; Cover Photo; 4to.