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Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1962-63
Compiled and edited by Raymond V. B. Blackman. Jane’s Fighting Ships Publishing Co., Ltd., publishers. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1962, distributors. 444 pages. $35.00.
Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft, 1962-63
Compiled and edited byjohn W. R. Taylor. Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft Publishing Co., Ltd., publishers. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1962, distributors. 504 pages. $35.00.
REVIEWED BY:
William D. Brinckloe, Captain, U. S. Navy.
('Captain Brinckloe is Supervisor of Naval Shipbuilding, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.)
It must be terribly difficult today to assemble a comprehensive and authoritative naval annual, with the number of new maritime nations steadily growing—up three to 93 since last year—and admiralties tightening the lid of secrecy on their publicity releases. In a turbulent world, however, the incomparable Jane’s Fighting Ships remains the unchanging authority on the world’s navies. The 1962-63 edition describes more than 10,000 warships in alphabetical order of nations, in descending order of classes, and in order of modernity within classes. You really do not need an index, but if you should, this year it is finally to be found in the back of the book where indexes usually appear.
Jane's speaks of the “three big U’s”—the United Kingdom, the United States, and the U.S.S.R.—though noting “a certain shrinkage” in the U.K. pages which leads it to question whether Britain will remain one of the big three or will sink to second class status with a fleet of frigates and sweeps, a satellite on the fringe of the U. S. orbit. Since the war, England has disposed of a huge fleet: 15 battleships, 63 carriers, 54 cruisers, 280 destroyers, 428 escorts, and 110 submarines; and she has laid down no battleships, carriers, or cruisers. During this period she has built two missile destroyers, eight orthodox destroyers, 40 frigates, 14 submarines and 200 minesweepers, all comparatively small craft. Her mantle of world policeman has shifted long since to the U. S. Navy; but even in the closer sphere, where the Home and Mediterranean Fleets held sway for 150 years, the two great fleets of the U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, now dominate the waters.
The United States, whose first nuclear carrier and frigate share the frontispiece with HMS Albion, England’s converted commando carrier, presents the most imposing array of warships the peacetime world has ever known, boasting “a new construction record of which it can be proud and which must be the envy of all other nations.” The U. S. Navy numbers 58 carriers, 43 cruisers, 382 destroyers, 339 escorts, 26 nuclear and 150 conventional submarines, 243 minecraft, and 240 amphibious vessels (Jane's, of course, reports laid-up as well as active ships); but only nine carriers, one cruiser, 49 destroyers, 18 escorts, and 44 submarines have been built since the war. Their elder sisters are aging retreads, and the United States will need 500 new ships by 1973.
The new U. S. ships whose photographs have been added since the last edition of Jane's comprise an. impressive array of naval
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This view of the six-bladed, twin-turbine, S-64 skycrane helicopter, seen lifting an eight-foot by 20-foot trailer, appears with accompanying description on page 275 of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, 1962-63.
might and technical expertise: the nuclear carrier Enterprise and her conventionally- powered teammate Constellation, the amphibious assault carrier Iwo Jima, the nuclear- powered missile cruiser Long Beach, the nuclear-powered missile frigate Bainbridge, the missile frigate Leahy, the nuclear-powered Polaris submarines Ethan Allen, Sam Houston, and Thomas A. Edison, the lost nuclear- powered attack submarine Thresher, the ballistic missile submarine support ship Hunley. And perhaps one might append the little craft who can show her heels to the whole pack: the more-than-40-knot, twin-screw, hydrofoil subchaser High Point.
Reproductions of two pages from Jane's should be required carrying in every navy- man’s pocket notebook (unless he is current on all such matters as our 1970 nuclear power and missile ship plans, our Hawkeye, Sea- sprite, Shrike and Terne 3 weapons, and our present and projected strength in AGORs, AGMs, PGMs, AGEHs and CCs): page 297, which briefs the U. S. Navy’s strength, structure, and building programs; and the doublespread on page 388, which itemizes statistics on our aircraft, guided missiles, and which
describes our antisubmarine weapons.
The third member of the three big U’s has not been idle. Russia’s current naval strength is estimated at 22 cruisers, 165 destroyers, 465 submarines, 1,000 minesweeping types, and 1,000 motor torpedo boats—and, of course, still no carrier. In the guided missile field, she is building new classes of missile destroyers, converting existing destroyers to carry missiles, and equipping a considerable number of small boats with missiles. Two of her three new types of nuclear-powered submarines are believed armed with missiles, in addition to a larger number of conventionally-powered missile submarines. She is breaking up the uncompleted hulls of four Sverdlov-class cruisers, but converting other cruisers to carry missiles. Russia’s nuclear rocket submarines are the main striking force of the Soviet Fleet; she has perhaps 12 nuclear submarines on station, with five or six being added every year. She has about 30 missile-launching submarines, ten of which are nuclear-powered, carrying either 350-mile ballistic missiles or antisubmarine missiles, and it is believed that trials of a submarine with Polaris-type missiles have started. “It is reported that:—it is intended to build up a four-theater submarine fleet, for operations in the Pacific, the Baltic, the Arctic, and in the Black Sea.”
Jane's reports that Soviet research, technology, shipbuilding, and logistic support are at their highest efficiency since the war, and warns against underestimating Soviet warship production capacity. Soviet naval chiefs are becoming increasingly aware of the threat presented by growing U. S. strength in Polaris submarines and of the need to protect a fastgrowing entity new to Russian tradition, a burgeoning merchant fleet. As a result, Soviet shipyards are turning out large numbers of frigate, escort, patrol, and subchaser types, and even major Soviet fleet units are equipped for minelaying.
Naval students weaned on the forthright British names for warships (Magnificent, Indomitable) may be disconcerted by such careful names for destroyers as Osmyslennyi (Sensible)i or Osmolritelnyi (Cautious or Circumspect). Perhaps, with the ubiquitous political commissar overseeing all that happens on board, such adjectives point the way to success in the modern Russian navy.
A puzzling feature of Soviet naval policy is the reluctance to cut out deadwood, with obsolete warships not only retained on the active list but kept fully manned and operational. Another interesting (and more understandable) feature is the large network of elaborately equipped trawlers roaming the seas in the vicinity of NATO exercises, new ship trials and U. S. missile firings, and dredging up an occasional fish. And a vessel that must make Russian naval officers a bit wistful for past Czarist splendors is their training ship Elizabeta, the former Imperial yacht.
West Germany’s eight large missile destroyers, 20 frigate types, six corvettes, 12 submarines, and many minesweepers and patrol craft add up to a respectable naval force. Some of the names of her frigates are reminiscent of the rugged ships in the World War I German fleet or of the later war: Hipper, Scharnhorst, Emden, Graf Spee. (Equally predictable are such ship names as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in East Germany’s far more modest navy.)
Ghana’s interesting new corvettes show what can be done on a small budget. Built in England to tight economy specifications, they are only 177 feet over-all and displace less than 600 tons (full load), but have a complete antisubmarine suit of sonar, air, and surface radar, anti-rolling fins, a Squid launcher, a 4-inch and a 40-mm. gun, and are air-conditioned throughout.
The editors of Jane's have political as well as technical problems to face, in deciding what names to call the present-day crop of divided countries. The free world comes off well with “Germany,” “Korea,” and “Vietnam” versus “Germany (East),” “Korea (North),” and “Viet Minh”; but it will not care as much for “China (People’s Republic of China)” versus “Taiwan China (National Republic of China).”.
Those who still think of aviation as a relatively new arm may bring themselves figuratively back to earth by noting that the current edition of Jane's All The World's Aircraft is the 53rd—just 12 years younger than its illustrious ancestor. And it is making the transition smoothly from conventional aircraft to all the other things that fly. Besides the 300- odd pages devoted to “Aircraft,” there is a growing section, now up to 110 pages, covering drones, missiles, rockets, sailplanes, and space vehicles. Conversely, the airship section, with nothing new to report in recent years, has been stricken this year.
Undoubtedly the most important development in “conventional” aircraft (words don’t have the stability they once had), is that vertical take-off (VTOL) has advanced from a research concept to a proven technique. Nominated for aircraft of the year is the Hawker P.1127 tactical fighter, in which the vectored thrust system has combined supersonic flight and vertical take-off capabilities without any sacrifice of military performance; though, tantalizingly, no performance figures are given. Orders for this aircraft have been received thus far from the United States and West Germany, as well as Britain. Second in importance to the VTOL news is the evolution of the supersonic airliner, with Britain and France close to an agreement on joint development of the Super-Caravelle that could have production aircraft ready for airline service by 1968 (quixotically, about seven years earlier than the airlines want such a development, since they have scarcely begun to pay off the present generation of big jets).
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This has been a remarkable year for highspeed flight. What Jane’s calls the North American Valkyrie “demilitarized bomber” (and what we generally call, in various shades of emotional tones, the RS-70) is nearing its debut. As the first production aircraft—only three ordered—ever designed to cruise continuously at high supersonic speeds, it represents a step forward as great as any in aviation history. Its smaller brother, the X-15 research plane, continues to exceed its design parameters of 4,000 m.p.h. at a height of 50 miles; it has shown that the so-called heat barrier was no more able to halt aviation progress than did the sound barrier and has pointed the way to winged re-entry for future astronauts (now wedded to an inert canister that would become a fiery meteorite in a second if anything went wrong). The Soviet E-166 (a possible picture appears in Jane's on page 303) set an absolute speed record of 1,664.4 m.p.h., subject to confirmation by the International Aeronautical Federation, and the editors predict that the forthcoming British Bristol 188 may bring the record back to England as the first aircraft capable of prolonged flight at speeds near 2,000 m.p.h.
The section on drones is notable chiefly for inclusion of the Beechcraft KD2B-1/Q.-12 air- launched expendable target aircraft, which in January 1962 attained a speed greater than Mach 2 at a height greater than 70,000 feet, thus flying higher and faster than any other known target in the world.
Coverage of air-cushion vehicles has increased substantially from the previous edition, as they move from research to advanced development (last summer two ACVs operated scheduled services in England). The models shown vary in swank from the plywoodhulled outboard-motor-powered Campbell Hovercrest to the posh Rolls-Royce-powered Cushioncraft, gleaming in streamlined alloy and with pressurized cabin; and in size from English Electric’s one-man Overcraft (hardly more than a powered pogo stick) to the 150- passenger, Westland SR-N2 Hovercraft.
The section on guided missiles and rockets and space vehicles, the camel that one day will take over the tent, is rich with its depth of coverage. Fifteen missileering nations are included, and for the United States alone the book describes 102 basic vehicles (140 with variants) of 35 manufacturers. There are five pages of data on the U.S.S.R.—not a rich display, perhaps, but almost any factual information in this sensitive area is surprising. An indication of just how prosaic satellites have become in our culture is the number of launchings over the past year: 16 by the U.S.S.R. and 50 by the United States— about one a week for this country. Facts in this section of the book are as exciting as anything in science fiction a few years back. Before the current edition went to press, an American Mariner probe was speeding across millions of miles of space toward the planet Venus, and another probe, bearing the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union, was en route to Mars. Manned orbital flights have become almost routine, and the successors to Mercury and Vostok will be multiseat spacecraft like Gemini and Apollo (which appear in Jane’s for the first time this year). Excellent, compact tables are included in this section on air-to-air missiles and wire-guided missiles (the latter being developed by seven
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nations, not including the United States); it is strange that similar tables for other classes of missiles are not included.
A hopeful augury of future co-operation is the fact that contributors of this year’s photographs included the editors of Kridla Vlasti (Czechoslovakia) and Skrzydlata Polska (Poland). Perhaps this sort of co-operation has been made possible by Jane's firm policy never to seek information that is secret or of which publication might prove embarrassing to any nation, but simply to record as much fact as possible with a minimum of comment and no guesswork. The monumental success of these two annuals proves how much unclassified data really is available, requiring only tireless and expert reporting to put it together in one place.
Brassey’s Annual—The Armed Forces Year-Book, 1962
Edited by Rear Admiral H. G. Thursfield,
Royal Navy (Retired). London: William
Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1962. Illustrated.
368 pages. $35.00.
REVIEWED BV
Ellery H. Clark, Jr., Captain, USNR
{Captain Clark is an associate professor in the English,
History, and Government Department at the Naval Academy. He was a former associate editor with the U. S.
Naval Institute.)
The 73rd issue of the famous Brassey’s presents 33 articles, a reference section, 15 illustrations, maps, and diagrams. A new subject in this book is the Reverend Alan Booth’s “Christian Theology and Modern Warfare,” in which the author concludes, “we aim to parley,” after affirming that the characteristic Christian posture combines a “steady realism about the daemonic and destructive potentialities of men and nations” with “a compassion and unyielding care for men on a universal scale.” Other novel features are historical essays on the half-century anniversaries of British military aviation and the Naval Staff.
As usual, the illustrations are excellent, the most outstanding photographs being those of the ASW frigate HMS Eastbourne and the carrier Victorious. Sixteen outstanding military books of the year are reviewed with perceptive analysis. Three articles are in keeping with the editors’ commendable policy of presenting to the reading public various up-to-date facets of Royal Navy activity. “The Cruise of HMS Londonderry” describes this warship’s activities in the Caribbean and Pacific. The other two discuss scientific research. In one, Editor Thursfield is highly informative about the activities of the surveying ships Dalrymple and Owen in the Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. The other describes and evaluates the Admiralty’s new and large (400X200X18 foot) model basin.
Admiral Thursfield in the opening chapter identifies “the prevention of war, rather than the ability to embark on a long-drawn-out conventional war,” as Britain’s contemporary political and military objective. After praising British amphibious forces in the 1961 Kuwait “brush-wood war,” he comments upon the naval nucleus of the British amphibious force (one Commando ship, helicopters, and four assault landing craft) and on the new-type assault and logistic ships of an amphibious squadron. The balance of the essay discusses Lord Montgomery’s article, “A Radical Plan for Britain’s Defence.” The Admiral strongly opposes the Field Marshal’s recommendation to place the four Marine Commando groups under Army command and their carrier air forces under R.A.F. control.
Vice Admiral B. B. Schofield also has two fine essays. One stresses the strategic importance of the Iberian peninsula to continued Western defense and safety and recommends a mutual pact between Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, and the United States, perhaps also Algeria and Morocco, to make available for military use. Spanish and Portuguese bases and islands. The other, “Developments in Maritime Forces, 1961-1962,” predicts eventual naval-scene domination by nuclear- powered submarines and also suggests the constructional need for submarine cargo and fuel carriers. Escort vessels are named the most popular type of warship in contemporary general use. Admiral Schofield also praises Britain’s development of “probably the most effective mine-hunting device in service today,” “a highly sensitive type of asdic capable of locating and classifying any mine-like object on the sea-bed at ranges and with an accuracy previously thought to be impossible.”
A companion-piece is Lieutenant Commander Nowell Hall’s “Changes in the World’s Navies,” in which the general-purpose frigate is viewed as superseding cruisers and destroyers, the hunter-killer submarine is recognized as a potential successor to the carrier as the capital ship of the future, and the United States and Russia are called the only two nations currently able to afford big, balanced fleets.
In this edition of Brassey’s, there is limited information about and discussion of Russia. Certainly it is not the fault of the editors that a lamentable paucity of specific data on Soviet armed forces continues. The 1961 issue of this book presented appraisals of both Soviet air and naval power. Perhaps the 1962 Brassey’s contains too many short articles. The suggestion is made that editorial policy be changed, to require fewer, but more detailed, and longer essays.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road
By O.W. Will, III, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy.
Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1963.
Illustrated. Appendices, 110 pages. $2.00.
REVIEWED BY
Edward G. Magennis, Captain, U. S.
Navy
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Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road was developed for use as a textbook by midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy in connection with their course on the Rules. A thorough knowledge of the Rules is a vital necessity to all charged with responsibility for navigating a ship. Different approaches to the problem can be made. Students can be required to memorize the Rules. Voluminous texts can be studied, augmented by many hours of instruction and illustration. Learning by doing can be used. None of these methods, however, is suitable at the Naval Academy. Important as the Rules are, the time that can be devoted to their study must be limited because of the competition of other important subjects in the academic workload. What was needed at the Naval Academy was a concise, clear, accurate, and at the same time adequate explanation of the Rules. This was the objective
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of the present text, and Lieutenant Will has accomplished it well.
As an instructor in navigation at the Naval Academy, Lieutenant Will was excellently equipped to undertake his task. Evidently realizing that the synthesis of condensations of the Rules can be a dangerous tool, the author has wisely confined his effort to classifying the Rules according to topic and to explaining these briefly and simply. Some 19 illustrations have been provided, and these are indeed excellent. One of them is an unusual, but undoubtedly effective, use of the automobile driving rules as a means of demonstrating how the nautical rules work. The 55 pages of text are separated into five chapters—Introduction, Vessels Approaching, Lights and Shapes, Restricted Visibility, and Miscellaneous. There are six Appendices—Helpful Hints, Condensed Rules for Preventing Collisions, International Rules, Inland Rules, Pilot Rules, and the Motorboat Act of 1940.
I found the chapter on Restricted Visibility especially interesting. The text emphasizes the necessity for commencing the sounding of fog signals early, the fact that the steering and sailing rules do not apply until the vessels are in visual sight, the courts’ interpretation of moderate speed (ability to stop in half the distance of visibility), and that a ship’s position is ascertained only when she is in sight. It calls attention to the Radar Annex in the proposed 1960 International Rules, pointing out that the material therein is not new and has in fact been recognized already by some courts as but setting forth principles of good seamanship governing the use of radar.
In the appendix on Helpful Hints, there seems to be an error with respect to pilot vessels. Both the International and Inland Rules require such ships to show side lights when on station and not at anchor.
Simplified Rules is compact and is a handy size (6"X9"), to be carried easily in one’s pocket. It should prove to be of value to all mariners. I do not know of any comparable work on the subject.
Whaling and Old Salem (A Chronicle of the Sea)
By Frances Diane Robotti. New York:
Fountainhead Publishers, 1962. Illustrated.
Appendices. 292 p.ages. $8.50.
REVIEWED BY
Wilson Heflin
(■Professor Heflin of the English, History, and Government Department at the Pfaval Academy is an eminent
authority on whaling history.)
It is not widely known that between 1799 and 1871 more than 80 whaling voyages were made from the port of Salem, Massachusetts, most of them in the two decades that preceded the Gold Rush to Californa. The commercial success of Salem in the China and East India trade and the ascendency of Nantucket and New Bedford in whaling have obscured the fact that Salem—where Blubber Hollow stood between Boston Street and Looney’s Hill—engaged, however modestly, in the search for • Leviathan in the South Seas. Mrs. Robotti’s book, a complete revision and enlargement of a shorter text published in 1950, is a very readable minority report aiming to set these Salem maritime matters aright. In its preparation she made a careful exploration of old documents—logbooks, journals, business records, agents’ daybooks. Her liberal quotations from such source material add much to the interest and authority of her book.
A business recession ashore in 1830 drove enterprising investors in Salem to turn to whaling. At first shipowners proceeded with caution, hiring, as their master mariners, experienced whaling captains from other ports and sending them on relatively short voyages. In 1832, eight Salem whalers were at sea. The peak years 1837-38 found 18 whalers active, with an aggregate tonnage of 4,947,
and 432 Salem men at work in the then flourishing whaling industry.
In giving a full-dimensioned account of Salem’s whaling career, Mrs. Robotti has sought also to fit “American whaling in the world mosaic.” To do so, she has written a good many chapters which have nothing ostensibly to do with Salem. They recount whaling history long before and long after the prominent whaling years of this Massachusetts port and explain ancient and modern ' practices and lore of the blubber-hunters.
Among the engaging aspects of nineteenth- century whaling history are the occasional journals of whaling wives who went to sea with master mariner husbands and recorded the events of their voyages in peculiarly feminine ways. Mrs. Robotti, in our times, has illuminated whaling history from the angle of vision of her sex. Her commentary on Yankee whalemen and Polynesian women
is interesting and particularly perceptive.
Mrs. Robotti refers often to Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In an appendix she writes (with a few errors of fact) of “Herman Melville and Moby Dick.” It is surprising that she made nothing of a possible relationship between Edward Ishamahiel, who was aboard the Salem ship Sapphire in July 1842, and the narrator of Melville’s best known book. It is regrettable that she did not have the opportunity to see a journal of the James Maury of Salem (1841-1845) now in the New Bedford Free Public Library. According to that record, the Salem ship spoke Melville’s first whaler, the Acushnet of Fairhaven, off the Galapagos Islands early in the year 1842.
Whaling and Old Salem not only puts into proper perspective some forgotten facts in maritime history, it is also a lively account of American adventure at sea in the 19th century.
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David Glasgow Farragut
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy.
Vol. I, Admiral in the Making, 1941. 372 pages. Illustrated . .
Vol. II, Our First Admiral. 1943. 513 pages. Illustrated . . .
Garde D’ Haiti 1915-1934: Twenty Years of Organization
and Training by the United States Marine Corps....................................................
Compiled by J. H. McCrocklin. 1956. 262 pages. 42 photographs.
Greyhounds of the Sea.................................................... . .
By Carl C. Cutler. 1961. 592 pages. 63 illustrations, 8 in full color and sail plans. Special Price—Queens of the Western Ocean and
Greyhounds of the Sea, both volumes as a set . . ■
The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models .........................................
U. S. Naval Academy Museum, 2nd edition, 1958. 117 pages. Illustrated.
John Paul Jones: Fighter for Freedom and Glory .
By Lincoln Lorenz, 1943, 846 pages. Illustrated.
Lion Six............................................ ........................................................................
By Captain D. Harry Hammer, USNR. The story of the building of the ing Base at Guam. 1947. 109 pages. Illustrated.
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A Long Line of Ships............................................................ ............................................ $5.00 ($3.75)
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. Mare Island Centennial Volume. 1954. 268 pages. Illustrated.
My Life ..................................................................... . ................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Grand Admiral Erich Racder, German Navy. I960. 430 pages. Illustrated.
Queens of the Western Ocean . ............................................... $12.50 ($9.38)
By Carl C. Cutler. 1961. 672 pages. 69 illustrations. 10 sets of ships' lines and sail plans. Special Price—Queens of the Western Ocean and
Greyhounds of the Sea, both volumes as a set..................................................................... $20.00 ($15.00)
Round-Shot to Rockets............................................................................................... . $3.00 ($2.25)
By Taylor l’eck. A history of the Washington Navy Yard and U. S. Naval Gun Factory. 1949. 267 pages. Illustrated
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages . . . . .... $6.50 ($4.88)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 280 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
(Deluxe autographed edition)............................................................................................... $12.50 ($10.00)
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors
Vol. IV—1950-1958 ......................................................................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 291 pages. Illustrated.
Soldiers of the Sea................................................................................... $14.00 ($10.50)
By Colonel Robert D Heinl, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps. A definitive history of the U. S. Marine Corps, 1775-1962. 1962. 695 pages. 127 photos. 42 maps. Index.
Uniforms of the Sea Services............................................................................................... $24.50 ($18.38)
By Colonel Robert H. Rankin, U.S.M.C. A comprehensive pictorial history of the uniforms of the U. S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from the Revolution to the present. 1963. 328 pages. Special Collector’s copies, signed by the author—$30.00.
The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 .................................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript. 1915-1949). 1949.228 pages. Illustrated.
WORLD WAR II—KOREA (U. S.)
Most Dangerous Sea............................................................................................................ $6.00 ($4.50)
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. 1959. 322 pages. 38 photographs.
The Sea War in Korea.......................................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Malcolm W. Cagle, USN, and Commander Frank A. Manson, USN, 1957. 555 pages. 176 photographs. 20 charts.
The United States Coast Guard in World War II................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Malcolm F. Willoughby. 1957. 347 pages. 200 photographs. 27 charts.
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II............................................................ $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1953. 581 pages. Illustrated.
United States Submarine Operations in World War II.......................................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1949. 577 pages. Illustrated.
Special Price—2-volume set: Destroyer and
Submarine books (listed above).......................................................................................... $17.50 ($15.15)
WORLD WAR II—(OTHER NATIONS)
Der Seckricg, The German Navy’s Story 1939-1945 .......................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, German Navy. 1957. 440 pages. 43 photographs. 19 charts.
The Divine Wind, Japan’s Kamakaze Force in World War II............................................... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima, former Imperial Japanese Navy, with Commander Roger Pineau, USNR. 1958. 240 pages. .61 photographs. 3 diagrams.
The French Navy in World War II....................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Rear Admiral Paul Auphan, French Navy (Ret.), and Jacques Modral. Translated by Captain A. C. J. Sabalot, USN (Ret.). 1959. 413 pages. '32 photographs. 13 charts and diagrams.
The Hunters and the Hunted............................................................................ . . $3.50 ($2.63)
By Rear Admiral Aldo Cocchia, Italian Navy (Reserve). 1958. 180 pages. Photographs and diagrams.
The Italian Navy in World War II....................................................................................... $5.75 ($4.32)
By Commander Marc’Antonio Bragadin, Italian Navy. 1957. 380 pages. 121 photographs. 17 diagrams.
Midway, The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy’s Story .... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, former Imperial Japanese Navy. Edited by Roger Pineau and Clarke Kawakami. 1955. 266 pages. Illustrated.
White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 ........................................................... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Captain S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.). 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement......................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Commander Walter C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paper bound.
Geography and National Power.................................................................. ■ $2.50 ($2.00)
Edited by Professor William W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. A short, up-to-date volume covering all the strategic regions and major powers of the world. This new edition has chapters on the Polar Seas and Africa. Third Edition. 1962. 180 pages. Paperback.
Naval Logistics....................................................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). Second Edition. 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ................................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available. 1962. 14 essays. 3 appendices. 350 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 ........................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding Eliot. 1958. 126 pages.
SEAMANSHIP
The Art of Knotting and Splicing................................................................ ’....................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Cyrus Day. Step-by-step pictures facing explanatory text. 2nd edition, 1955. 224 pages.
Naval Shiphandling................................................................................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 2nd edition, 1963. 529 pages. 175 illustrations.
NAVIGATION—PILOTING
Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting............................................................................................. $8.00 ($6.40)
Prepared by Commander J C. Hill, II, USN, Lieutenant Commander T. F. Utegaard, USN, and Gerard Riordan. (A completely rewritten text which supplants Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.) 1st edition, 1958. 771 pages. Illustrated.
Practical Manual of the Compass............................................................................................ $3.60 ($2.88)
By Captain Harris Laning, USN, and Lieutenant Commander H. D. McGuire, USN. 1921. 173 pages. Illustrated.
The Rules of the Nautical Road............................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. F. Farwell, USNR. Revised by Lieutenant Alfred Prunski, U. S. Coast Guard. Third Edition, 1954. 536 pages. Illustrated.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road..................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
By Lieutenant O. W. Will, III, USN. 1962. 110 pages. Illustrated.
PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy...................................................................................... $1.95 ($1.56)
Revised by Captain John V. Noel, Jr., USN, Commander Frederick C. Dyer, USNR, and Master Chief Journalist William J. Miller, USN. (6th edition. 1960. 641 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual . $4.00 ($3.20)
By Captain W. C. Hogan, USCG. Revised by Lt. Cdr. M. M. Dickinson, USCGR, assisted by Loran W. Behrens, BMC, USN-FR. 3rd edition, 1958. 819 pages, Illustrated.
Division Officer’s Guide....................................................................................................... $2.25 ($1.80)
By Captain J. V, Noel, Jr., USN. 5th edition, 1962. 282 pages.
The Naval Aviator’s Guide..................................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Captain Malcolm W. Cagle, USN. This is a complete guide for the naval aviator from pre-flight to senior pilot. Illustrations are complete and technically correct in each detail. 1963. 310 pages. 60 photographs. 13 drawings by Robert Osborn. 22 figures.
The Naval Officer’s Guide......................................................................................... . $6.75 ($5.40)
By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, USN (Ret.), with Captain William P. Mack, USN. 5th edition, 1960. 649 pages. Illustrated.
Studies in Guerrilla Warfare.................................................................................................... $2.50 ($1.88)
This series of studies, each written by an expert in the field, covers bipartisan war and guerrilla tactics used by friendly as well as communist forces in China, Greece, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Vietnam, anti Cuba. Originally published as articles in Proceedings. 1963. 89 pages. Illustrated. Paper bound.
Watch Officer’s Guide............................................................................................................ $2.50 ($2.00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th edition, 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
LEADERSHIP
Naval Leadership, 2nd edition................................................................................................ $3.50 ($2.80)
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, Captain Frank J. Mulholland, USMC,
Commander John M. Laudenslager, MSC, USNR, Lieutenant Horace J. Connery, MSC, USN, R. Adm. Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. Gregory J. Mann. 1959. 301 pages.
Naval Leadership, 1st edition......................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
Prepared at the U. S. Naval Academy for instruction of midshipmen. 1949. 324 pages.
Selected Readings in Leadership................................................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Compiled by Commander Malcoln E. Wolfe, USN, and Captain F. J. Mulholland, USMC. Revised by Leadership Committee, Command Department, U. S. Naval Academy. Revised 1960. 126 pages. Paper bound.
ENGINEERING
Descriptive Analysis of Naval Turbine Propulsion Plants.. $5.00 ($4 00)
By Commander C N. Payne, USN. 1958 187 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships.... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Thomas C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd edition revised 1959 373 paircs Illustrated. ’ ' r 5 '
Internal Combustion Engines................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander P. W. Gill, USN, Commander J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Professor E. I. Ziurys. 4th edition, 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Marine Engineering........................................ $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Fundamentals of Sonar.............................................................................................. $10.00 ($8.00)
By Dr. J. Warren Horton. 2nd edition, 1959. 417 pages. 186 figures.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services ... $5 00 ($3 75)
By Captain Charles W Shilling (MC), USN. 1955.292 pages. Illustrated. ’ ' '
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables................................................................................... $1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention................................................................ $10.00 ($8.00)
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine......................................................................................................... $ .60 ($ .48)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paper bound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial........................................................................................... $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paper bound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Burdick H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson. 2nd edition, 1960. 318 pages. Illustrated.
LANGUAGES
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese.................................................. '................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
By Associate Professor Guy J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages. Paper bound.
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liy Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. One—109 pages. Paper bound................................................................................
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paper bound...............................................................................
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology...........................................................
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd edition, 1954.
SERVICE LIFE
The Best of Taste, The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations............................................... $4.00. ($3.00)
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage........................................................................ $5.50. ($4.13)
By Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovette, USN (Ret.). 4th edition. 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea........................................................................................................................ $3.50. ($2.63)
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, U. S. Navy.
The Sailor’s Wife.................................................................................................................... $1.50. ($1.13)
By Lucy Wright. 1962. 112 pages. 28 cartoons. Paper bound. '
Service Etiquette..................................................................................................................... $6.00. ($4.50)
By Captain Brooks J. Harral, U. S. Navy and Oretha D. Swartz. Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. Second Edition. 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated
Welcome Aboard.................................................................................................................... $4.00. ($3.00)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 5th edition, 1960. 273 pages.
How to Survive on
Land and Sea................................ $4.00 ($3.00)
2nd revised edition, 1956. 366 pages
Intramural Programs . . . $4.00 ($3.00)
Revised, 1950. 249 pages
Soccer........................................... $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1961. 172 pages
Swimming and Diving . . $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1962. 345 pages
Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 ($3.38)
1958. 223 pages
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Illustrated.
................................................... $1.60 ($1.28)
1958. 50 pages. Photographs and diagrams. Paper
Physical Education Series—V-5 Association of America
Basketball . . . Temporarily out of stock
Boxing.................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
Revised, 1950. 288 pages Conditioning Exercises . . $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1960. 275 pages Football . . . Temporarily out of stock
Gymnastics and Tumbling . $4.50 ($3.38)
2nd revised edition, 1959. 414 pages Hand to Hand Combat . . $4.00 ($3.00)
1943. 228 pages
Baseball.............................................................
By Robert Spackman, Jr. 1963. 175 pages.
Squash Racquets................................................
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. bound.
SPORTS—ATHLETICS
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today................................................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.50)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 329 pages. 1963. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs..................................................................................................... $2.65 ($1.99)
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. Over 90 old and new songs. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
Your Naval Academy.......................................................................................................... $1.00 ($ .75)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Midshipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions. 1955. Paper bound.
Proceedings Cover Pictures....................................................................... s . . • ■ $2.50 ($1.88)
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959. Printed on 13 X 13 mat. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Reef Points
The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1963-1964 ....................................................... $1.35, net
Compiled by the Reef Points Staff of the Trident Society. The plebe’s bible, a compact book covering the Naval Academy and the history and traditions of the Naval Service.