MERCHANTMEN-AT-ARMS: THE BRITISH MERCHANTS' SERVICE IN THE WAR
Written by David W. Bone
Illustrated by Muirhead Bone
Published by Chatto & Windus
in 1919
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
MERCHANTMEN-AT-ARMS: THE BRITISH MERCHANTS' SERVICE IN THE WAR
Written by David W. Bone.
Illustrated by Muirhead Bone.
Stock no. 1823053
1st.
1919.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large format. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Lower edges deckle edged. Spine and corners lightly rubbed & bumped. Light browning to endpapers and text block. A few scattered foxspots and grubby finger marks (minor).
Front cover
Contents
- PART I
- I. THE MERCHANTS' SERVICE
- Our Foundation
- The Structure
- II. OUR RELATIONS WITH THE NAVY
- Joining Forces
- At Sea
- Our War Staff
- III. THE LONGSHORE VIEW
- IV. CONNECTION WITH THE STATE
- Trinity House, Our Alma Mater
- The Board of Trade
- V. MANNING
- PART II
- VI. THE COASTAL SERVICES
- The Home Trade
- Pilots
- Lightships
- VII. 'THE PRICE O' FISH'
- VIII. THE RATE OF EXCHANGE
- IX. INDEPENDENT SAILINGS
- X. BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK
- XI. ON SIGNALS AND WIRELESS
- XII. TRANSPORT SERVICES
- Interlude
- 'The Man-o'-War 's 'er 'usband'
- XIII. THE SALVAGE SECTION
- The Tidemasters
- A Day on the Shoals
- The Dry Dock
- XIV. ON CAMOUFLAGE - AND SHIPS' NAMES
- XV. FLAGS AND BROTHERHOOD OF THE SEA
- PART III
- XVI. THE CONVOY SYSTEM
- XVII. OUTWARD BOUND
- XVIII. RENDEZVOUS
- XIX. CONFERENCE
- XX. THE SAILING
- Fog, and the Turn of the Tide
- 'In Execution of Previous Orders'
- XXI. THE NORTH RIVER
- XXII. HOMEWARDS
- The Argonauts
- On Ocean Passage
- 'One Light on all Faces'
- XXIII. 'DELIVERING THE GOODS'
- XXIV. CONCLUSION: 'M N'
- APPENDIX
- INDEX