Swan Captain E W (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition Updated. Dust Jacket: No, pictorial boards as issued. External Condition: Wear to the top of the spine and some rubbing to front cover. Internal Condition: A little sporadic foxing to margins, otherwise quite bright . Author/Editor: Swan, Captain E.W. Publisher: Charpentier Ltd, Portsmouth. Year: 1930. Edition: 3rd Edition Updated. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, colour and B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 264. Keywords: Royal Navy, Portsmouth. The book for sale is the one in the photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the memorable Hurricane at Apia, Samoa March 16th 1889. A history of the screw corvette built at Portsmouth first commissioned in 1887. Black boards with gilt lettering on face, gilt tips, decorative endpapers & ribbon. 125 pages with frontispiece of the CALLIOPE plus B&W plates. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Former owner's name on inside blank page.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 125pp, photos, crew list. Written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the memorable hurricane at Apia, Samoa March 16 1889. Light soiled covers on tight block with presentation inscription ' To Si(r) J E Th? from the author 15/3/39' to title page. 400g. 'Authors regards'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 125pp. 7 full page bw photo plates + 1 engraving of The Calliope Medal. Original green publisher's cloth with banding around edges, gilt lettering on spine. White eps. neat Ink dedication on ffep from Willie Bennett to his daughter dated 'March 1939' ( who was aboard the Calliope on this cruise). Tipped in one page ink letter from 'TUBBY' dated 15/5/39 presenting this book to WB. Also 3 page typed letter from WB dated 16.3.39 ( copy of an original newspaper report written by WB IN 1889 and printed in the Evening News & in the The Hampshire Times). Alsoa Post Office greetings telegram sent to WB fro Officers including survivors assembled on board calliope Fiftieth anniversary Of Samoan Hurricane. Very slight rubbing of corners. Contents clean & tight. Unique. VG.

January 25th 1887 - April 30th 1890. Written on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Memorable Hurricane at Apia, Samoa, March 16th 1889. First edition. Frontispiece and six other plates, illustration to the text. 8vo. Very good in the original Navy blue buckram-backed white buckram boards - very much in the style of the Navy Records Society - ship's crest in gilt to the upper board, a little rubbed and soiled. 126pp. Newcastle upon Tyne, Privately Printed, Andrew Reid & Company Limited, Uncommon, only three copies on COPAC. Commissioned 1887 for service on the China Station, Captain Henry Coey Kane, Calliope was caught in the hurricane that struck Samoa in 1889. This history "written on the 50th Anniversary." "Fatalities had by this time become too general to warrant a hope for the safety of any ship in the harbour. It seemed but a matter of another hour or two when the fleet would be nothing but a mass of useless wreckage. To the surprise of everyone, however, at this critical moment the Calliope turned her head to the gale, and picking her way with consummate skill through the dangerous passage steamed out of the harbour and soon disappeared in the haze as she walked the open sea." [p.60] The flamboyant & dubious Marquis de Leuville had a medal struck in gold for Captain Kane "in honour of British seamanship", white metal/pewter copies of which were privately presented to the officers and crew of the ship, official presentation having been vetoed [NMM has an example described as a "counter", images at E3734-1 & 2 on the NMM web-site]. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper. "Captain E. Dangerfield, Royal Navy from E.W. Swan, March 1934." Dangerfield was Flag Lieutenant to the Duke of Kent on the China Station.