Vintage Rare Books on disk DVD in PDF format

 

The 

Battleships & Submarines

Collection

 

150 Rare Vintage Books

 

Deluxe Edition on 
USB Flash Drive


A Totally unique and unrivalled collection

 

A Library of over 150 rare books scanned to USB Flash Drive. Discover the history and development of Submarines and Battleships of Navies from around the world.

Literally 10,000's of pages of information, diagrams, photos and technical information and construction details of warships and submarines.

Learn to identify the various vessels from around the world, battle history, submarine warfare, warship construction etc.

The complete list of books included on the disks is reproduced below, take the time to read through the list of titles and you will see the depth and breadth of knowledge that is covered. This unique library has been collected together for the first time here.


 

The most Complete Library available

 


N.B there is NO BOX or physical books included in the purchase - you will receive a USB flash drive containing the books in PDF format for use on your Computer.

 


The colour and style of the USB drive may vary from the picture, we will send whatever drive we currently have available, a particular colour or style cannot be pre-selected.

 

On The Drive

This unique drive is an opportunity to own these rare and collectible vintage books before they disappear forever. Some of the books are already unavailable and but for being scanned into digital format would never be seen again.

Each page has been scanned in as a faithful reproduction of the original. This is a chance to be able to see books that would otherwise be lost to future generations.

The drive contains rare out-of-print books relating to Submarines & Battleships. Each book is individually named on the drive and thus is easily searchable by title, and each book is individually searchable itself.

Be Aware - that other sellers may pad out their collection of books with foreign language titles or books that are not relevant to the topic. Compare items and you will see the quality and effort that goes into our disks. Other sellers also put security lock on the books which requires a password (which they wont give you) so it is restricted as to what you can do with the books - all our books are completely unrestricted. In addition all our books are fully named exactly as you see in the list below making them easy to find and easily searchable - other sellers may simply supply you a disk with books named randomly making it virtually impossible to find the book you want.

IMPORTANT: These books come supplied on a USB Flash Drive - note that this is not a USB drive that will that will "play" on a home DVD player or TV, it contains no video whatsoever. It is a Data Drive and must be used on a Computer to view the PDF book files 

 

 

150 Books on USB Drive

A list of neutral ships sunk by the Germans [in WW1]
A naval history of Vincennes, Indiana - C. G. Shake
A note on the history of submarine war - H. Newbolt
A squadron of the United States Navy - W. W. Swinyer
A survey report on human factors in undersea warfare - The U. S. National Research Council
Aircraft and submarines; the story of the invention, development - W Abbot
American ship casualties of the world war including naval vessels, merchant ships 
Daring deeds of merchant seamen in the great war - H. F. B. Wheeler
Defensively-armed merchant ships and submarine warfare - A. P. Higgins
Dreadnought ou submersible  - O. Guihenneuc 1916 [French]
European ships of war and their armament, naval administration and economy, ...., - J King 1878
Famous British war-ships and their commanders - W. Wood 1897
Famous ships of the British navy - W. H. Davenport Adams 1863
Fleets of the world compiled from official sources and classified according to type
German submarine activities on the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada - United States Office of Naval Records
German white book on armed merchantmen
History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel - J Scharf 1894
Hunting the German shark - the American Navy in the underseas war - H. Whitaker
Hush; or The hydrophone service - H Wilson
Identification of British Naval Ships - United States War Dept.
Identification of French Naval Vessels - United States War Dept.
Identification of German Naval Vessels - United States War Dept.
Identification of Japanese Naval Vessels - United States War Dept.
Identification of United States Naval Vessels - United States War Dept.
Illustrated & descriptive catalogue A. Siebe, inventor of the close diving dress - 1870
Improvements in naval engineering in Great Britain - J. A. Tobin 1883
Information concerning some of the principal navies of the world - United States office of Naval Intelligence 1909
Ironclads in action Vol. 1 - H. W. Wilson 1897
Ironclads in action Vol. 2 - H. W. Wilson 1897
Lecture on submarine boats and their application to torpedo operations - F Barber 1875
Modern ships of war - E. J. Reed 1888
Munitions industry, naval shipbuilding - United States Government
Murder at sea - Sir Archibald Hurd
Mystery ships (trapping the U boat) - A. Noyes
Naval gunnery; a description & history of the fighting equipment of a man-of-war - H Garbett 1897
Naval handbook as bearing on national defense and the European war - T. D. Parker
Navy yearbook - United States Navy
Navy yearbook - United States Navy
Notes on submarine hunting, using hydrophones - Great Britain. Naval Staff. Anti-Submarine Division
On a man-of-war. A series of naval sketches - F. O. Davenport 1878
Open boats - A Noyes
Peace or war The great debate in Congress on the submarine and the merchantman
Photographs of H.M. vessels & auxiliaries and other objects taken from the air - Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Dept
Q-ships and their story - E. K. Chatterton
Report concerning certain alleged defects in vessels of navy - W. Tindall 1908
Report of board on comparative trials of the scout cruisers Birmingham, Salem, Chester - U.S.. Navy Dept. Bureau of Engineering 1910
Report on European dock-yards - P. Hichborn 1886
Robert Fulton and the submarine - W. B. Parsons
S.S. Borodino - W. J. Allen
Secrets of the submarine - M Hay
Ships of the Royal Navy - O. Parkes
Shipyard practice as applied to warship construction - N. J. McDermaid
Simsadus London; The American Navy in Europe - J. L. Leighton
Structural design of warships - W. B. Hovgaard
Submarine and anti-submarine - H. Newbolt
Submarine boats - W Hovgaard 1887
Submarine navigation past and present - A Burgiyne 1903
Submarine silhouette book no. 1. - United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Submarine warfare of to-day; how the submarine menace was met and vanquished - C Domville-Fife
Submarine warfare, past and present - H Fyfe 1907
Submarine warfare, past, present and future - H. C. Fyfe 1902
Submarines - the Monge, the H.3, the U.C.12, Ours - G. Milanese
Submarines, mines and torpedoes in the war - C. W. Domville-Fife
Submarines; a list of references in the New York public library - M. E. Jameson
Subsurface warfare - the history of Division 6, NDRC - J. O. Herrick
The adventures of the U-202; an actual narrative - E. Spiegel
The Boston at Hawaii; or, The observations ... naval oficer during a stay of fourteen months in those islands on a man-of-war - L. Young 1898
The boys' book of submarines - A. F. Collins
The British battle fleet; its inception and growth throughout the centuries to the present day Vol. 1 - F. T. Jane
The British battle fleet; its inception and growth throughout the centuries to the present day Vol. 2 - F. T. Jane
The British navy, past and present, with lists showing strength of H.M. Fleet in all classes of ships - S. Eardley-Wilmot 1904
The Cinderellas of the fleet - W. W. Nutting 
The crisis of the naval war - J. Jellicoe 
The development of navies during the last half-century - S. Eardley-Wilmot 1892
The enemy submarine - United States Naval Consulting Board 
The evolution of naval armament - F. L. Robertson
The Fleets of the World. The Galley Period - F Parker 1876
The future of navies. Great ships - Leading articles reprinted from the Times, with letters from Admiral Sir Percy Scott and others -
The German pirate; his methods and record - Ajax (pseud.) 
The Greek Waship-Tarn-JHS-1905-Warship
The handy war book, with accurate war maps and photographic pictures of U.S. war vessels - E. Hannaford c.1898
The illustrated guide to the Royal Navy and foreign navies, also mercantile marine steamers available as armed cruisers and transport - F. T. M. Gibbs 1896
The journal of submarine commander F. von Forstner 
The mechanism of men-of-war; being a description of the machinery to be found in modern fighting ships - R. C. Oldknow 1896
The modern warship - E. L. Attwood
The northern barrage and other mining activities - United States Office of Naval Records
The pirate's progress; a short history of the U-boat - W. Archer
The romance of modern invention - A Williams 1903
The romance of submarine engineering - t Corbin
The spider web, the romance of a flying-boat war flight - 'P. I. X.'
The state of the navy, 1878. Unarmoured ships - H watt 1878
The steam navy of the U.S. .... the steam vessel of war in the U.S. Navy, and of the naval engineer corps - F. M. Bennett 1896
The story of our submarines - Klaxon  [pseud.]
The story of the submarine - F. Bishop
The story of the submarine from the earliest ages to the present day - C. Field 1908
The submarine in war and peace; its developments and its possibilities - S. Lake
The submarine torpedo boat, its characteristics and modern development - A. Hoar
The victory at sea - W. S. Sims
The war on German submarines - E. Carson
The World's warships - F. T. Jane
The Yankee mining squadron; or, Laying the North sea mine barrage - R. R. Belknap
Torpedoes and torpedo warfare - C Sleeman 1880
Torpedoes. Their invention and use from the first application to the art of war - W King 1866
Unarmoured ships - t Brassey 1875
Under the periscope - M. Bennett
Voyage of the Deutschland, the first merchant submarine - P Konig
Warship-Profile-01-HMS-Dreadnought
Warship-Profile-02-HMS-Cossack
Warship-Profile-03-Uss-Hornet-Cv8-Aircraft-Carrier
Warship-Profile-04-KM-Admiral-Graf-Spee-1
Warship-Profile-05-HMS-Cambletown-USS-Buchanan
Warship-Profile-06-KM-Prinz-Eugen
Warship-Profile-07-HM-MTB-Vosper-70ft
Warship-Profile-08-Kriegsmarine-U-107
Warship-Profile-09-USS-Charles-Ausburne
Warship-Profile-10-HMS-Illustrious-Aircraft-Carrier
Warship-Profile-11-Hms Illustious-Aircraft-Carrier
Warship-Profile-12-IJN-Kongo-Battleship-
Warship-Profile-13-HMS-Exeter
Warship-Profile-14-SMS-Seydlitz
Warship-Profile-15-USS-Enterprise
Warship-Profile-16-HM-Submarine-Upholder
Warship-Profile-17-RN-Zara
Warship-Profile-18-Bismarck
Warship-Profile-19-HMS-Hood
Warship-Profile-20-Hesperus
Warship-Profile-21-USS-Tennesse-Battleship-
Warship-Profile-22-IJN-Yukikaze
Warship-Profile-23-Aircraft-Carrier-HMS-Furious-p1
Warship-Profile-24-Aircraft-Carrier-Furious-Part-2-by-Rusadir
Warship-Profile-25-SMS-Emden
Warship-Profile-26-Rubis-Free-French-Submarine
Warship-Profile-27-SM-Torpedo-Boat-B110
Warship-Profile-28-USS-Indianapolis-CA-35
Warship-Profile-29-HMS-Belfast-Edinburgh-Class-Cruiser
Warship-Profile-30-IJN-Yamato-and-Musashi
Warship-Profile-31-German-Schnellboote
Warship-Profile-32-HMS-Cavalier-and-the-CA-Class-Destroyers
Warship-Profile-33-Scharnhorst-and-Gneisenau
Warship-Profile-34-USS-Barb
Warship-Profile-35-HMS-Eagle
Warship-Profile-36-US-Navy-Monitors-Civil-Warby-Rusadir
Warship-Profile-37-SMS-Konig-class-Battleships
Warship-Profile-38-HMS-abdiel
Warship-Profile-39-USS-Mississippi-BB23
Warship-Profile-40-Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship Du Ruyter
Warship-Recognition-Manual
War-ships - a text-book on the construction, protection, stability turning, etc., of war vessels - E Attwood 1904
Warships at a glance - F. T. Jane
Who's who among the painters of the worlds finest submarines - J Shinn
Why we went to war I. Submarine warfare. II. Prussian militarism - D Houston
With the American fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific - R. D. Jones 1908

 

The Nature of Scanned Books

You will get a copy of each of the scanned books in PDF format. The PDF will be a replica of the book in exactly the condition it was available to us - so that will necessarily mean that the book will have inevitable signs of ageing. Some of the books in our collection are over 400 years old - it is not possible to maintain a book in pristine condition for that length of time. In addition any marks made by the previous owners will also be present. We do not consider that to be  a flaw of the product but rather adds to its authenticity.

Searchable - Each file is fully named on the drive so it is easy to search and find a particular title. In addition  each book is searchable and individual sections or pages  can easily be printed.

Viewing - The books will require suitable PDF software to view them, almost certainly you will already have this on your computer or device - if not such software is universally available for Free download.

Sizing - Page size can be adjusted to suit your needs for viewing text or images.

Printing - A complete book is printable, or individual sections or just individual pages too.

Images - All images can be printed out and used as you wish.

 

About the Drive

 

The drive is not suitable for use on a home DVD player connected to your TV or audio device. The drive contains PDF files (these are electronic books) which can be viewed on your computer. You can easily convert the PDF files to a similar format suitable for viewing on your Tablet, mobile phone, Kindle, eBook reader or other device using the totally free software called Calibre.

Please Note - Physical books are not included in this purchase; all books are scans of the original books in PDF digital format only. You will receive your USB drive only - there is no box included. The cost of a box plus associated increase in postage and packaging would mean the price of the item would need to at least double and we find that our customers do not value a box but rather they value the contents of our drives

 

Shipping

 

All items are shipped from the UK. We despatch within one business day of receiving the order, please note that whilst we can despatch purchases quickly we cannot control the delivery time it takes to reach you.

For UK deliveries the standard service is second class post shipped in secure packaging.

For non-UK deliveries; the standard posting method is Airmail. Please be aware that Airmail delivery times can vary greatly even within the same country, there is not a standard time and please do not expect your item to arrive within a few days - it simply will not happen.

The "Anticipated Delivery" date is given by eBay , not us, and quite frankly should be totally ignored because it is not a true reflection of the reality. There is an option to have tracked international shipping (it is an option in the postage section of the listing) - tracked delivery is far more secure, it can often be quicker but is relatively expensive; we charge just for the cost of the service plus our additional time in organising it; it is entirely optional whether you make use of that service or not.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

 

We feel certain you will be delighted with your purchase. If however for any reason you have cause for concern then please contact us. We are always happy to resolve any issue to your satisfaction and offer a full no-quibble money-back guarantee. We purchase many different items ourselves on eBay and understand the need for quality customer service.

Please note - before contacting us with a query that the USB drive is intended to be use on a computer only (with suitable PDF reader software) - it will not work on a home DVD player connected to your TV or a "smart" TV etc. The drive does not contain audio or video files; it is a data drive with PDFs on it

 

 


DELIVERY time-scale  - Note to All Non-UK Buyers 

In 99.9% of cases we will post your international purchase to you within one Business day but after that we have absolutely no control over the speed, efficiency or effectiveness  of the particular delivery service that you have selected.


So please be aware of the following:


1. Anticipated delivery is set by eBay (not us) and should be ignored.

2. There is no set time for when your Airmail item will arrive. It may be 2 weeks, it may be 4 weeks (yes items can often take that long to be delivered); but almost certainly it will not be 5 days.

3. Standard Airmail delivery WILL NOT INCLUDE TRACKING – that service is available for an extra charge. Tracking will make  the delivery more secure but does not necessarily speed up the delivery time (we charge extra for tracking simply because that is what Royal Mail charge us).


Please form your expectations on the basis of the points raised above – the same points apply for all sellers though they may not openly say it; but we prefer to create a realistic expectation and as a result have a harmonious relationship rather  than tell you it will arrive in 4 days and then have to deal with the fallout from that when it doesn’t happen.

For any queries please feel free to send us a message using the eBay message system.