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Handbook of the Fleet / Navy 1939
Gilt on blue cloth, ship lists of all the major powers.
Very rare pre-WWII German handbook of the Fleet withphotographs of all known naval shipping worldwide. It also gives other essential data like displacement - tonnage, speed in knots, armaments, armour and depth of keel for any identified target - without which a torpedo firing solution could not be calculated.
An important book used on all German ships and Submarine U-Boats for recognitionpurpose. Depicted are Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleships, U-Boat, Minesweeper, aircraft carrier, oil tanker and all the other.
This pre-war volume has been published in a very limited number of only 12,000 copies,
thus it's much rarer than the wartime volumes.
1023sketch profiles, photos, plans, illustrations and silhouettes4 pages of flags in colourIndex of all Kriegsmarine ships listedIn very good condition
A few pencil strike throughs and annotations to vessels of the british empire, otherwise ok with minor traces of use and age.
Included is a clipping of cruiser Admiral Hipper and original military period front newspaper page with rare photosdepicting destroyer HMCS St. Clair (I65), River-class frigate HMS Kale (K241) and HMS Test (K239), Australian Minesweeper HMAS Wollongong (J172), an unknown United States Navy landing ship tank (LST).
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements:6-3/4" x5" ~1.0 lbs.
by Alexander Bredt
Published by J. F. Lehmanns, Munich/Berlin
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