Published by [Privately Printed],, 1951
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
US$ 91.31
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Add to basket8pp 8vo., printed in blue, with one full-page photograph; wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, fresh copy. HMS GANGES (1865-1976) was the Royal Navy's junior rates training establishment at Shotley in Suffolk. Vice-Admiral Alexander Gordon Cumming Madden was then Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. During WWII he commanded BIRMINGHAM and ANSON. In 1949, as Flag Officer Far East Station, he was involved with AMETHYST and the Yangtze Incident. EXTREMELY SCARCE.