U-Boat Handbook Ship Identification w/1023 pics, 1939 Submarine U-Boot

Gilt on blue cloth, ship lists of all the major powers.

Very rare pre-WWII German handbook of the Fleet with photographs 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 recognition purpose. 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.

Hardcover

• 478 pages plus 44 pages of advertisements
• 1023 sketch profiles, photos, plans, illustrations and silhouettes
• 4 pages of flags in colour
• Index of all Kriegsmarine ships listed

In good exterior and good interior condition
Mild foxing to edges, name on front endpaper and rear pastedown, prelims ink stained at lower margin, a few ink strike throughs and annotations to vessels of the british empire, otherwise ok.
Included is a clipping of German school sailing ship Gorch Fock and of an unknown destroyer.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5" ~1.0 lbs.