Kemp Lt Comdr (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. A history of Royal Navy submarines and submarine warfare to the post-war years. Includes several b/w photographs. 224pp. Blue cloth boards with light soiling to edges. Spine cloth sunned. Some pages toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. H/B 232 pages, condition is very good, no DJ.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. H.M.SUBMARINES Lieut. Comdr. P. K. Kemp R. N. Four Square Books, London 1960 Reprint. 192pp. This copy is in FINE condition and appears to be unread. Laid in is the Daily Telegraph obituary of Cdr David Swanston who was the Captain of HMS Shakespeare which was known as the 'Unsinkable Submarine'. H M Submarines. They go where on other ship can follow, alone and with every man's hand against them. Their losses during war-time are greievous, far higher than in any other branch of the Services, yet there is never a lack of men to man them. Their deeds of courage, endurance and skill have been written across the waters of every ocean in the world. They are the gallant crews who man the submarines of the Royal Navy. Ref X2.

2nd edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 224pp., b/w pls., appendix, index, History of the development of the Submarine.

Frontispiece and six other plates, eight maps, seven of them folding. Very good in the original green cloth, gilt, in slightly rubbed and soiled dust-jacket. 184pp. Shrewsbury, Wilding & Son,  The majority of the book covers service in WWII, including the liberation of Antwerp, also a Roll of Honour, 1939-1945.