Condition: very good, dust jacket chipped, see pictures.
First edition.
The history of the Royal Navy from its early antecedents in the Cinque Ports. Features accounts of the marauding sailors of Queen Elizabeth, the Dutch Wars, the Commonwealth Navy, up to the arrival of the "Nuclear Navy". The contributors include Professors Lloyd, Ranft, as well as Admiral Schofield, Captains Macintyre and Bennett, Lt-Cmdr Kemp and Oliver Warner.
