Author: Mick French
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle (honouring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so; Ramillies survived the war).??This book, produced with the full cooperation of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, deftly assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship, including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh for whom Ramillies was his first ship. Many personal photo albums were unearthed to provide previously unpublished illustrations, which add a further dimension to a vivid picture of naval life in an almost-forgotten era.
Battleship Ramillies
Author: Mick French
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle (honouring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so; Ramillies survived the war).??This book, produced with the full cooperation of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, deftly assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship, including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh for whom Ramillies was his first ship. Many personal photo albums were unearthed to provide previously unpublished illustrations, which add a further dimension to a vivid picture of naval life in an almost-forgotten era.
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle (honouring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so; Ramillies survived the war).??This book, produced with the full cooperation of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, deftly assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship, including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh for whom Ramillies was his first ship. Many personal photo albums were unearthed to provide previously unpublished illustrations, which add a further dimension to a vivid picture of naval life in an almost-forgotten era.
The Wars of Marlborough, 1702-1709
Author: Frank Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Gentleman's and London Magazine
The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
London Magazine Enlarged and Improved
A new naval History; or, Compleat view of the British Marine, etc
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History
The Naval History of Great Britain
Author: William James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1915: T-U
Author: Benson John Lossing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description