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Heavy Weather Sailing 8th edition

Heavy Weather Sailing 8th edition

Thomas, Martin

Adlard Coles Nautical

In this book, former Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club Martin Thomas brings together a wealth of expert advice from many of the great sailors of the present, including fresh accounts of yachts overtaken by extreme weather, from Ewan Southby-Tailyour, Alex Whitworth and Dag Pike to Larry and Lin Pardey, Matt Sheahan and Andrew Claughton. ...

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The Sinking of the Blücher "The Battle of Dr bak Narrows: April 1940"

The Sinking of the Blücher "The Battle of Dr bak Narrows: April 1940"

Pen and Sword

A lesser-known event during World War II, the sinking of the Blücher is key part of naval history that marked the beginning of the Norwegian Campaign. The Sinking of the Blücher is a comprehensive investigation into why the German cruiser, named for Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Prussian victor of the Battle of Waterloo), was approaching ...

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The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors

The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors

Mowbray, Jan Henry

Pen and Sword

I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship.

There fell on the ear the ...

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HMS Turbulent

HMS Turbulent

WYNN, STEPHEN

Seaforth Publishing

HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping.

Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down ...

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Formidable "Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes"

Formidable "Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes"

Bloom, Benjamin S.

Pen and Sword

HMS Formidable was a British aircraft carrier during the Second World War. One of four Illustrious-class carriers, Formidable was an armored carrier, able to withstand air attacks, guarding its precious aircraft hangar with an armor-plated flight-deck. As well as its squadrons of fighters and torpedo bombers, Formidable was armed with sixteen 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns, mounted ...

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Sea Wolves: Savage Submarine Commanders of WW2

Sea Wolves: Savage Submarine Commanders of WW2

Matthews, Tony

Pen and Sword

From the heart-rending account of the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 the worst maritime disaster in world history through to a variety of other brutal actions carried out by numerous submarine commanders, including the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur in 1943, this book comes from the deep shadows of a ...

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Churchill's Atlantic Convoys: Tenacity & Sacrifice

Churchill's Atlantic Convoys: Tenacity & Sacrifice

Smith, William

Pen and Sword

Within hours of the outbreak of the Second World War, Winston Churchill took up office as First Lord of the Admiralty. The same day the liner Athenia was torpedoed in the Atlantic in the first U-boat attack of the war. Churchill quickly recognized Britain's survival depended on countering the U-boat threat and the strategic importance ...

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The Titanic Disaster "Omens, Mysteries and Misfortunes of the Doomed Liner"

The Titanic Disaster "Omens, Mysteries and Misfortunes of the Doomed Liner"

Bancroft , James W

Frontline Books

It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage.

By all accounts, the liner was at the time the largest man-made object ever to move on water. The space her ...

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pvp.28,00 €

The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War

The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War

Privratsky, Kenneth

Pen and Sword

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain, desperately short of merchant shipping, turned to the Norwegians who agreed to loan several hundred of its modern cargo and tanker ships. In early 1940 when Hitler invaded Norway, both the British and Germans rushed to seize the remainder of the fleet. King Haakon VII and ...

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A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War "An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire"

A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War "An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire"

Corbett, Theodore

Pen and Sword

While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive ...

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Bounty: HM Armed Vessel, 1787 (ShipCraft)

Bounty: HM Armed Vessel, 1787 (ShipCraft)

Jang, Kerry

Seaforth Publishing

The ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships. Previously, these have generally covered plastic and resin models of 20th century subjects but, like the previous volume on Nelson's Victory, this is a radical departure not only a period sailing ship but one for which kits are available in ...

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Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels, 1870-1914

Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels, 1870-1914

Brown, Les

Seaforth Publishing

The self-propelled, or locomotive torpedo was a game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential. Although the 19th-century Royal Navy had a reputation for technological conservatism, it was an 'early ...

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pvp.52,00 €