Handbook of the Fleet / Navy
WWII Kriegsmarine U-Boat Pocket Book
456 pages + 70 pages of very interesting advertisements,
gilt on blue cloth, warship lists of all the major powers.
Used to identify shipping before engagement - helps to avoid scoring any own goals!!
Photographs and silhouettes 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 Warships and Submarine U-Boats throughout the war.
Depicted are Destroyer, Cruiser, U-Boat, Minesweeper, Aircraft Carrier, Oil Tanker and all the other.
1105 sketch profile, photos & plans, illustrations & silhouettes.
4 pages of flags in colour. Index of all ships listed.
Published by House J. F. Lehm.
Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5" ~1.1 lb.
In near very good exterior and near very good interior condition!
Faint foxing to edges, occasional pencil annotations to ships, which have been sent to bottom.
Name on front endpaper and three mounted extra pages with handwritten list of
german warships under construction or planned.
With 2 newspaper clippings included about aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60)
and british aircraft carrier HMS Theseus (R64).
Shipping Options
Airmail shipping with recorded delivery to any destination in the world: $13.95
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