Aug 05, Jillian rated it it was amazing. Another brilliant read I don't usually read read three books in a row from the same author but these were absolutely gripping. I hope there are more Harry Gilmour books in the pipeline as I would like to read how Harry gets on with his next adventure. This set of books would suit anyone interested in the role of submarine s in WWII as well as those that enjoy adventure fiction.
Nov 01, Mike Whitehouse rated it it was amazing. The third novel in the series is as good as the previous two and follows Harry to the Mediterranean and a little romance, but the nitty gritty of life in a submarine comes to the fore and we leave Harry on his way to a Commanding Officers course in the UK hopefully there will be a fourth or more in the future.
Jun 24, Robert W Jenkins rated it it was amazing. Wrenching Action Great character development and fine descriptions of WW11 British submarine warfare. Gilmore, the lead character is all over the world in the first three books. Its important to read them in order to see Gilmore's growth. I love sea stories but find these books to be quite different, and perhaps more enjoyable, from others.
Aug 13, Dianne Watkins rated it really liked it. A riveting page turner I had a hard time putting this book down. It was almost like being there. I could feel the tension and the fear, as I read. Can't wait to read another of David Blacks exciting tails, even if I have trouble interpreting some of the English Navy jargon. It flows like the sea. Aug 23, Paula Spencer rated it it was amazing. I have just read the trilogy back to back and thoroughly enjoyed every page.
They were well written and fast paced, showing what life was like on the submarines during WWII. You were there, breathing their air, smelling their smells and feeling their fears. Thank you David for three thoroughly enjoyable reads. May 09, Charlene rated it it was amazing. There's lots of gritty and dramatic description of submarine actions in the relatively shallow Mediterranean, and the increasingly difficult operational environment on Malta. The book is also very good on the psychological costs of serving in such an environment where your friends disappear regularly, and the war seems never ending.
Aug 20, M Clarke rated it it was amazing. All three books make for fine reading. I look forward to the next one with relish. Jan 02, Kathleen Cameron rated it it was amazing. Good read Not my usual reading material but enjoyed reading this story. My dad did his National Service in the Royal Marines and has been fascinated by naval history since. Think he would enjoy this too, as did some training on Malta.
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Jun 16, Mark Sileikis rated it it was amazing. Still keeping up the momentum The third in this series and still a page turner. Black puts you in the submarine and every scene. I find myself hoping the war lasts longer so more chapters can be written. Aug 23, Kim Hollands rated it liked it. All the dits Not a bad book on the whole but scattered with all the sits and sea stories I have ever heard and some in context and others not so, a good yarn not taken too literally I hope.
Jan 15, clive aldridge rated it it was amazing. Brilliant I thought the first two books in the series with Harry Gilmour were very good , but this the third is absolutely brilliant, could not put it down and didn't want it to end. Jul 22, Chaplain Stanleigh Chapin rated it it was amazing. One of the best Naval history is a favorite and this World War two story one of the best. Submarine service is extremely tough and this story told it true. Sep 12, John Peacock rated it it was amazing. Excellent story and believable.
Would follow this author. Aug 05, Louise Andre de la Porte rated it really liked it. Any chance of a continuation Did they really have electric trains in Italy in the 40s? May 17, mr c little rated it it was amazing. Submarine Heroics Great read. A 2nd WW story in the Hornblower mould. A tribute to our sailors and the people of Malta. Great read Well paced nicely written great characters you care about. Aug 14, Sean rated it really liked it. Entertaining, read it very quick. Oct 01, Leslie rated it it was amazing. This installment of the Harry Gilmour better than the second in the series.
The Harry character brings a very human side to the realities of war.
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Jun 04, Peter de la Cour rated it it was amazing. Look forward to the next in the series. Enjoyable series of books. I look forward to the next installment please do not leave it to long. Nothing more to say. Jul 30, Robert Schinschke rated it it was amazing. Well developed character I. I wish it could go on. Published in by Saalfield Publishing Co.
The Flight of the Silver Ship: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio ie three complete novels for boys in one volume. Copyright , , respectively. Pictorial boards; pages -. About 60 mm thick. Frontispiece to each story. Authorized Edition based on the television series starring Lloyd Brdiges. A fictitious adventure story about the hero Mike Nelson, illustrated with coloured naive line drawings.
Crash Dive: A Collection of Submarine Stories
Walker, illustrated by Steven James Petruccio. Beautifuily illustrated, this is a story of a seahorse who lives in the Philippines. He is a male, and as we adults well know, it is he who carries the eggs after mating. Seahorse and his mate meet up with a number of marine animals in their immediate habitate, and their reaction and interaction with the animals in important. Is the parrotfish a threat to Seahorse. And what about the sea snake, or the crab? How many will grow into adulthood? Softcover, very well ilustrated in full colour, oblong format x mm, 32 pages.
A factual tale told in a storylike fashion. Ideal to be read to a young child. Text is large and clear for the young reader. For children four to ten. Written by Richard Humble. Published by Colour Library Books Ltd. Hardcover, illustrated boards as per dustjacket, a huge book of dimensions 28cm wide by 36cm deep nearly A3 , fully illustrated in colour.
This is a great visual book for the younger reader and adult alike, with sections on: Not the easiest books to read in bed to oneself or your child! But very well designed and of great interest. It is difficult to gauge the date of this super little book as there is no date or inscrition but it mentions the loss of the Titanic but shows the Lusitanea and no mention of it sinking.
It is so well illustrated as there are 48 full page colour tinted prints throughout the book, roughly one every 3 pages plus there are countless line drawing illustrating the written text. Although the predominent subject is about ships, there is a section about salvage, again with some interesting diving photographs, one of divers working on a gaping hole in the Olympic sister ship of the Titanic after a collision with. The book looks at some of the oldest recorded shipwrecks and their relics, including the Kyrenia, Mary Rose, the Girona and as recent as the Titanic.
There are three sections on early diving, scuba and deep exploration in atmospheric suites and submersibles - again all very well illustrated. It is divided into 26 sections: I hesitate to put this in the jevenile section as I have found it to be an excellent book as are all DK books, but I do beelieve they are aimed at the younger reader - well, younger than me anyway and that would probably be ninety-five percent of the world!!!
Peter Little and David English. Puffin Books, imprint of Penguin, Middlesex, England. Penguin Books, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN Australian edition 0 14 8. A delightful book for children in the Puffin Adventure Sports series, profusely illustrated with colour drawings throughout.
When Penguin decided to release the book in Australia, they most sensibly contacted the Scuba Divers Federation of Australia to have it ratified for Australian consitions. This is credited on the Australian edition. Floherty and Mike McGrady J. Illustrated with mono photos. The Two Nephiews Author: Hard back with illustrated covers printed pages Dimensions: Each of the stories has a small line drawing at the head of the page where the story begins. In all, there are 13 short stories. One in a series by Franklin Institute Books.
Hard back covers with dustjacket; printed pages; dimensions: The author had been an elementary school teacher for fifteen years prior. The book is described as giving the younger reader a view into diving, oceanography, sea exploration and research vehicles. As you would expect with a book aimed at the younger reader, it is very well illustrated with monochrome photographs and line drawings. Book not dated Hard back with DJ - printed pages Dimensions: But, having decided to make the Scorpion their home, they soon find themselves sailing up the West coast of Scotland, with new friends aboard and a treasure wreck ahead.
The book consists of nineteen chapters with line drawn illustrations, some of divers. The frontispiece is the only coloured print in the book. Jim Barclay and his friend Todd convince Jim's father to help them recover sunken treasure in a reef just off the coast of Guatemala. The Religious Tract Society, London c Glued and taped spine. This juvenile book, published in the early 's, tells the young reader in 20 short chapters where we find or make everyday things. It starts with a an small interesting two page article about sponge diving the the Mediterranean Sea - it even starts the sponge article "Once upon a time, your sponge lived in a beautiful home in the South of Europe".
Commodities, manufactures goods and services included: Each short chapter is so well illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Illustrated by Miller Pope. Boards, quarter bound in cloth; dustjacket. Book features wonderful interior illustrations by Pope, many full-page diving scenes. A juvenile adventure about young boy who learns scuba diving while spending a summer with his uncle and discovers a lost treasure. Geoffrey Whittam Published by: The book is also illustrated throughout with many line drawings by the same illustrator. He finds himself almost at once involved in a mysterious plot directed against a man who had escaped from a sinking ship, and so become a vital witness against the gang who sunk her.
Young Jack takes his father's powerful tug to sea What amazing creatures they are. This excellent book is fully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and drawings. Text is large for ease of reading by the child and parent. What is an Octopus? The danger of the Blue-ringed octopus is mentioned of course, and sensible advice about not keeping an octopus in captivity - they are not pets. Softcover, width x depth mm, full colour, 32 pages, with glossary and even an index. Ideal to read to a child, or for a young reader.
A good title to retain for future reference. For children four to fourteen. First British novel of skulduggery involving underwater archaeologists and amphora pirates-criminal skindivers who plunder ancient wrecks for Greek vases amphorae. A juvenile book in a series by the same author, this one being devoted to inventions. This one contains a 10 page illustrated chapter called "Diving Suits and Diving Bells".
It covers native diving for pearls, the Siebe Gorman diving dress, Fleuss's oxygen re-breather, atmospheric suits and "what divers do". The book is broken down into 24 chapters on other inventions: This reviewed fifth edition published This is a really fascinating little book that was originally published in , this copy is a fifth edition dated It is contains 9 chapters, the first of which is a very comprehensive article about Simon Lake's submarine Argonaut.
The subamarine Argonaut floats, sinks the the sea bed and runs on wheels but what is really fascinating is that a diver could "lock in" and "lock out" throught a pressurised hatch - very revolutionery as the Argonaut built in See Author, David Masters. First edition September Second edition as here November Hardcover, illustrated cloth boards with four-funnel steam ship image; paddle steamer on spine, probably depicting the Mauretania or Aquitania.
Total pages, index, Over one hundred photographs of good quality. Actually, most are original photographs. What a delightful book, with plenty of photographs and interesting text for the young reader - indeed, the adult steamship enthussiast would get something out of it, especially from the photographs. Seventeen chapters over pages, index. Forget about this being a boys' own book; any adult interested in maritime history through the development of steamships would be well informed. It is well written without any vestage of boys-talk, and deserving of any adult's library.
And there is a photograph of the 24, ton Baltic on which my grandfather was commissioned as a chef. This really is an excellent book. Written and illustrated in twenty-one chapters. The illustrated cover shows a diver discovering the prized treasure chest while the spine shows a diver using his trusted knife.
Written in 25 chapters, the book only has one illustration, the frontispiece. The publisher seems to have published many other similar books for young readers, all in a series like this. Hardcover, dustjacket, pages. An adventure book for boys. Printed hard covers; printed pages.
It is more of the wonder ship that flies high in the air, skims the surface of the sea, and descends to its lowest depths. Its owners hide it under the waters of the English Channel until they need it for their next cruise. Their dismay when they discover it has been stolen, and their adventures in recovering it, make an exciting and absorbing story alegedly. Hard cover, illustrated boards; printed pages. A lovely juvenile book with illustrated covers, two ships are shown on the cover and a diver is shown descending a ladder on the spine. The Thetis is a fast motor-cruiser and the story takes us to Cuba, the story visits various places around the country, even Guantanamo!
There has been an insurrection there, nothing to do with Castro, long before his time and our heroes get themselves involved. Hardcover, dust-jacket, fully illustrated in colour throughout, 34 pages. Australian author, illustrator, educationist and diver, Jacqueline Vickery Stanley is based in Canada and Texas, but maintains close ties to Australia through her family in Melbourne where she was born , and friends.
Her first book, Wolfie, The Wolf-Eel was a resounding success, but lttle known in Australia as the delighfully ugly yet beautifully peaceful animal is a Canadian species. The author's second book comes back home, with a wonderful tale of Lucille, the Weedy Seadragon, so popular in south-eastern waters, especially off South Australia's Kangaroo Island. Unfortunately, Lucille wants to be like her cousin Leslie, a Leafy Seadragon. After several adventures, Lucille realises that being yourself is the most important thing. It is a deligtful tale for youngsters, especially if they hve an afinity with the sea, which, of course, they all should have.
If you have a child, or you are like me and into a wonderfully naieve second-childhood, read this book. Includes a brief appendix on the biology of the seadragons, and other fish. On a visit to Melbourne in , Jacqui make a four hundred kilometre round trip to vist the primary school where my son Sam was attending, where she presented slides and film in a remarkable interaction with the kids. Just recently October , Jacqui was working with the NOAA organisation at the Aquarius underwater habitat off Florida and arranged for the scientists working under saturation conditions to send a 'cheerio' to Sam and his school.
This is what the preface says: The book is very informative describing the life of the distant water deep sea fishermen, the boats, the methods used to catch fish and how it is processed when back to port. There is even a small section at the back about whaling - obviously published in the days when the whaling trade was acceptable. The format of the book is consistent so that when viewed, the left hand page shows text while each right hand page has a full page coloured print.
Inside the front and back covers, both pages viewed show a map of the North Atlantic Fishing Grounds, an example of what the fish caught look like and examples of fishing trawlers. Illustrated by Steven James Petruccio. Oh dear, not another book on sharks. I was curious to see how it measured up to the 3E principle. Similar in style to the Seahorse book above, it tells the tale of a young Great White, moulding fact with a storylike theme. From four miles away, the Great White senses a dead whale being devoured by less dominant but older sharks, and comes in for its share.
But little remains and she goes off searching for food. A school of Bass are not so fortunate. A sealion spots th Great Whale, and taunts her from the kelp. A school of Tuna pass by and the young Great White has food. Her teeth grow wider and stronger. Her sleek gray body growns longer and stouter. Month after mkonths she grows more powerful, more skillful at the hunt. She is White Shark, ruler of the sea". It is light on education, high on entertainment but for an older child , and so-so on encouragement.
It is the parent who needs the encouragement, to supplement the tale with an understanding of the role that the Great White has in the sea, a role that is not simply a killing and eating machine. I don't think a child would appreciate this without additional input from the parent. Its not pleasant, but it exists.
Therefore, if the book was followed up with other more enlightening texts, then we may have educated the child. For children six to ten. Walker Books, Sydney, Australia. Hardcover, laminated boards, 36 pages, A4 size, on gsm art paper, beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. The book is set in the superb kelp forests off the Tasman Peninsula on the central east coast of Tasmania, which really do exist and are some of he most fascinating in the world, hundreds of feet tall. It tells of a young boy pulling up a trap for a feed of fish when it snags and he is flipped out of his little dinghy.
Face down in the water, he sees a blurry alient world. He is scared, and scrambles back into the boat. He needs to recover the trap and asks a young friend to help. Sophie is a snorkel diver, and encourages young Ben to freedive with her, so h can see the marvels of the underwater world. Ben is concernd about what may be lurking below, but he gives it his best shot.
Ben is engrossed in his new world. The fish trap is released and brought to th surface. He sees how wonderful these creatures are here in their mysterious, hidden world. He feels this is where they belong". Quite superb, brings a tear to the eye. Good on you Ben and Sophie. The final page also has a brief description of the kelp forest and where it grows. As Tasmania is losing some of its majestic forests, land as well as kelp ,perhaps there is a conservationist theme about this book. I have no problem with that.
For children five upward. Ideal for parent-reading or the young reader. There is some information on line under his name, but the best I found is: Hodder and Stoughton, London in When Dirk Rogers, deep sea diving expert and captain of his own small salvage vessel, takes an emergency job off the coast of Java, he does not realise that he will be diving straight into trouble. Then he discovers that both the divers who have been employed on the job have died underwater - and may there not be some connection between these deaths and that of another member of the salvage company, at the the hands of the followers of the mysterious terrorist, the Hatu.
Sadly the only illustration the book has is the frontise which is identical to the picture on the dustjacket. The cover is illustrated showing a helmet diver confronting four huge conger eels. A rough outline of the tale is a German professor and an Englishmen use a revolutionary airship that is capable of not just flying but also doubles as a submarine and goes beneath the waves.
The airship is made from a new material that is very light but extremely strong and capable of withstanding terrific pressures in the depths of the sea. They visit the North Pole, come across some interesting shipwrecks, depose a king in Africa and even fly to the top of Mount Everest. The book is divided into 24 chapters and there are 5 full page prints, one of which, the frontispiece, is in colour.
If you have the thir one, please let me know. Steeple Davis Binding - Hard back with illustrated covers, printed pages Dimensions: Written in 20 chapters both editons. From the fly of the first edition During the war a fabulous amount of treasure of all sorts was sent to the bottom of the sea, and no doubt, in the years immediately ahead, attempts will be made, wherever it is accessible, to raise it. This story describes one such attempt to salvage a valuable consignment of geld bars that had been sunk somewhere off the South African coast.
A vessel is sent to locate it; the wreck is found, and divers, equipped with modern scientific devices, explore the sea.
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Eventually the gold is raised; but as carrion draws the vultures, so the rumour of vast wealth being retrieved brings unscrupul- ous adventurers on the scene: All search for them is vain until Simon Teesdale, 2nd mate of the salvage vessel, investigating on his own account, finds a clue that leads him to a solution of the mystery- and to the substantial reo; ward that had been offered. Second edition published by: William Collins Sons, London in Cover designer not credited.
Also thetre is no mention of the first edition of naughty!!! The publishers, Collins, have resorted to listing the bok as 'First printed in this edition ', which infers a previous edition - but they do not state when. From the fly of the edition: A routine salvage operation is suddenly and violently interrupted when the SS Madui is attacked by pirates. The stakes are high, one million pounds worth of gold bars, and a gang of ruthless men have no hesitation in casting the Madui's crew adrift in open boats, to perish from thirst and exposure in burning tropical waters. The Salvage men are determined to survive and one of them, Simon Teesdale, has sworn to recover the gold and bring the murderers to justice.
The story of this long search for the missing gold is one of mystery and adventure, told in masterly fashion by Wilfred Robertson. No date - would suggest early 20th century. My copy is a First Prize presentation award, dated Hardcover, no dust jacket, embossed green cloth boards with title only, pages gilt edged, 18 pages of book advertisments, colour painting for frontispiece illustrating a scene from the book.
The first question one asks, if indeed there is someone to answer it, when handling a book such as this for the first time, is "Is it all true? In this instance the author obliges us with the answer: Now, no tale in the world is ever "all true": Now I want to tell you right away, that most of my people or heroes in this story have had their proptypes, and I have tried to paint then from life". So there you have it. I have not read thebook, but in delving into a page here and there it appears to be very well written and of fine entertainment for anyone interested in seafaring.
The author has written ten other books for young boy readers. Hard cover, illustrated boards, printed pages. The cover has a nice print of a diver coming up with a bag of pearls, the spine shows a pearl lugger and an open pearl shell with pearls. Unfortunately, the book has very few illustrations. This large format juvenile book of short stories has a splendid cover coloured drawing of a breath hold pearl divers and a "hard hat" pearl diver looking on.
The first story is actually the main title of the book called "The Pearl Fishers" and is a story of pearl fishing by J T Gorman set in Australia. The book features many diagrams with diving content as well as the cover. The book seems to have two title pages, one has an illustration of a diver and an attendant, the second contains a series of diving details used as a border, I managed to use this for a dinner menu once for a diving club event.
This is possibly due to the fact there is a second story containing diving content, "The City Beneath The Sea" by Phyllis Megroz - the search for the lost city of Atlantis.
Crash Dive: A Collection of Submarine Stories by Larry Bond
As well as the coloured cover, there are two colour prints in the book, sadly nothing to do with the diving but the two diving stories are illustrated with many line drawings, some divers. A juvenile tale about an Englishman trying his hand at pearl diving in Australia. The cover shows a pearl diver above the gunnels of what I guess is a pearling lugger with two attendants looking on.
It has 14 chapters and only one monochrome print of a couple of pearling luggers in sail.
Mono illustrations by C. Scribner and Welford, NY. Hardcover, illustrated cover and spine. Blinded, stunned, and breathless, he felt himself whirled helplessly hither and thither, while a load like that of a mountain seemed to rest upon him and press him down. For the poor survivors brought to shore, children among them, the rescue by the brave fisherman is only a foretaste of things to come. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster was a civil engineer who specialised in seas and harbours. He wrote Juvenile Adventures under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood. Hardcover, dustjacket; pages.
I know nothing of this book, the only details provided here by a bookseller. The illustrated boards cover shows a tall ship; the spine may show a diving helmet - it was hard to tell from the sales image. To what extent it contains diving material I have no idea. I presume juvenile fiction. Illustrated boards as shown; also have seen ship in pale green on dull buff background. Frontis is a black and white illustration, caption reads: John Berry Published by: This one tells about life in the British Royal Navy.
Even children whose reading experience is limited will be encouraged to find out for themselves by the excellent full colour illustrations and clear text, thus gaining extra reading practice". The book starts with the history of the sailor in Britain from around , when King Henry VII started a full time navy up to modern times. It covers various trades in the navy including that of the diver. Inside the front covers, both pages viewed show various badges.
The left viewed page shows officer marks of rank, cap badges and badges of rate ratings while the right hand side of the page shows ratings badges which display their trade. For example, gunnery show a pair of crossed large guns, the engineering mechanic shows a shape of a ships propeller and diver shows a profile of a divers helmet. From a sales blurb: Kid reader, juvenile subject matter for today's enthusiastic readers. Story is fresh and compelling. Ideal for school aged readers. Lightweight tales that will intrigue young minds.
Manville Fenn Published by: No date in book but has prize label dated Hard back with illustrated cover, printed pages. The story starts at the firm of "Lester and Sons, Pneumatic Engineers, Specialists in Diving Apparatus, London" and has a whopping 55 chapters, far too many to list here. Ther are 5 monochrome prints, two of which are of divers. The book is totally text and no illustrations except a frontise photograph of the bearded Robert Quinton.
As said in the description, it records his experiences on steamships in the late 's and early 's in various places including experiences with sharks and Devilfish while observing pearling in Broome and Thursday Island amongst other places. The decorated cover depicts a graphic description of a diver's fight with a devilfish while trying to salvage pearl shell and tortoise shell from a schooner sunk in the approaches to the harbour on Murua Woodlark Island. The accounts graphically describes two attacks on two different divers on two different days, apparently by two different devilfish as the first was "hacked" to pieces by the crew.
A very interesting account of life at sea at the time. Appears to be a juvenile title. It is illustrated with 8 monochrome plates, two of which are of a diver and it also has illustrated cover and spine. The cover shows a couple of sea scouts clinging to a buoy at sea while the spine has a line drawing of a diver coming up to the side of a wreck. I am not sure what the story is about except that it involves a group of sea scouts.
There are 8 full page monochrome illustrations, two of which are of divers. Illustrations by Walter G. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company,