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Books on Naval Ammunition, Ordnance

 

& Equipment

 

 

 

R.L. Handbook on AMMUNITION 1918

This edition covers the ammunition used during WWI. The contents which include:

Fuses (20pp) Miscellaneous (13pp), H.E. Shell (7pp), Chemical Shell (4pp), Star Shell( 3pp), Incendiary Shell(3pp), Smoke Shell(2pp), Shrapnel Shell(1pp).

Full of cross section drawings fuses with their name for each part, shells with cut away sections and detailed tables etc. Being a total 53pp of which 18 pages are in full colour. Produced slightly larger than A5 size with Soft card covers.

Price £19.00 weight 170gms.

 

Handbook on AMMUNITION (NAVAL) 1935

This edition covers the ammunition used by the Royal Navy at the start of WWII. The contents which include: General remarks, High Explosives, Propellants, Cartridges for B.L. and Q.F. guns and catapults, Tubes, Blank Cartridges, Ammunition packages, Projectiles, Shell fuzes & gains, Aircraft Bombs, pistols & fuzes , small arms ammunition & rifle grenades, fireworks, magazines & shellrooms .

With 194pp A4 size with 58 plates of which 6 are B & W photographs and 10 pages in full colour. A4 size dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover. Cost £30 +£ 5 P & P( UK ) 1050gms.

 

An Elementary Treatise on the Mounting of Naval Ordnance 1811

by Lt. Col. William Congreve

“The true principles of construction for the carriages of every species of Ordnance so as to work with as fewer hands the heaviest metal causing the least possible strain to the ship.”

A Treatise of Naval Ordnance of Nelsons Navy. A unique book for our understanding of Naval Gunnery & Carriages. It has xiv, 51pp and 17 pages of cannon and ordnance. A4 size. Bound in dark blue buckram with gold leaf lettering and cannon design on cover. Cost £35. 710gms.

 

Naval Gunnery (1897) by Captain H.Garbett R.N.

Written to give the public a history of Naval Gunnery from the 1300’s when they were first used on board to the 1900’s. Readable enough to give a non technical reader a good insite into the development into smooth bore guns to the breech loaders of 111 tone to 6 inch Q.F. guns just introduced to the Navy. Gives details of how guns on a man-of-war are constructed, mounted, and worked to how such a complex fighting machine the battleship was in the 1890’s. It has 360pp A5 size, 113 illustrations in the text, & 12 B & W photos. Cost £30. 680gms.

 

Handbook of Naval Ordnance 1916

This handbook covers the period of guns used during WWI. It gives a full detailed account of the various guns in service: 15inch B.L., 12 inch B.L. Mark VIII, IX, X ,XI,XII , 9.2 Inch B.L. X, XI, 7.5 inch B.L. Mark I, II, V. With a further detailed account of their Breech Mechanisms (instructions for stripping, assemble, wrenches, action etc.) and information on box slides, Locks (electronic & percussion) .With 51 A4 & A3 size engineering drawings & plates . It has 90 A4 size pages, 51 A4 & A3 size pages of scale plans and 50 illustrations in the text. A4 size dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover. Cost £30. 1150gms

 

Instructions for Armourers of His Majesty’s Fleet 1915

This edition supersedes the 1909 edition and covers the period of equipment used during WWI. It gives full details of Magazines Rifles & Accoutrements, Pistols, Aiming Tubes, Sub -Calibre Guns. Care & Preservation, Sights, Director Gear, Breech Fittings, Examination of Guns, Crusher Gauges, Hydraulic Jacks With appendix of: List of tools, Detail of Rifling of Naval Guns, Position of Gravity of various guns, normal chamber pressures, measurements of Bore etc. With 23 A4 size engineering plates & 19 drawings plates It has 212 A4 size pages, dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover. Cost £ 30 . 1030gms.

 

Royal Naval Handbook of Field Training 1926

This publication covers the many and various Naval Training for operation on land and drill for forces fighting other than on their ship.

Subjects covered include: Squad drill, rifle exercises, field movement drill, sword exercises (cutlass), guard & sentries, platoon drill, company drill, battalion drill, pistol drill & accoutrements, field gun drill, battery drill, machine gun drill, guides and directing flank, and drill for markers, ceremonial, parade, reviews, the Kings Colour, Guards etc. With very good information on the personal dress & equipment type and wearing of. Field Gun Drill also has details of Gun, Limber, etc

 

It has 336 A4 size pages, 58 A4 size B & W photo plates. With many drawings in the text.

A4 size dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover.

Cost £30 +£ 5 P & P( UK ) 1380gms

 

 

The Naval Gunnery Pocket Book 1945

This edition supersedes the 1932 edition and Ammunition Pocket Book 1935 of which contents now form this book. It covers the period of equipment used during WWII. It gives full details of: Gunnery on ships (a Cruiser & Destroyer), Ships Company, Naval Guns, Hand & Power worked Mountings, Ammunition, Low Angled Firing, Fire Control, Radar, Rangefinders, High Angled Firing, A.A. Gunnery, Damage Control, Boarding Parties, Gunnery Practices, Saluting Guns. With 3 colour &18 A3 size engineering plates & 37 diagrams. It has 213 A4 size pages, dark blue buckram covered, gold leaf lettering & royal coat of arms on the cover. Cost £35. 1130gms.

 

Instructions for the Armourers of Her Majesty’s Fleet 1885,

This covers Nordenfelt , Gatling , Gardner machine guns, Martini-Henry Rifle, Adam’s, Enfield pistols . iii, 56pp,9 plates (fold out), Soft Covers, £ 19. 275gms.

 

Rifle and Field Exercises and Musketry Instructions of Her Majesty’s Fleet 1877

Covers Martini-Henry Rifle, Field Exercises inc. Landing Party etc., xvi, 230pp ,24 + plates Soft Cover £19. 500gms

 

Notes on Armour and Artillery Defence of a Coastal Fortress c1888 by Major W.St . P.Bunbury .

This handbook covers the subject of Armour, its construction, penetration and application to war vessels and forts. The question of the power of guns , their ammunition, mounting and position. With 84pp with tables, and 67 pages of plates showing detailed drawings of Warships of Austria, France , Germany , Italy , & Russia . Cost £21.