Royal fleet

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Buy Royal Fleet rescue - LS & GC miniature medal ribbon 9 cm for R45.00

Buy Royal Fleet rescue - LS and GC miniature medal ribbon 9 cm for R45.00

Buy Royal Fleet Rescue LS 7 GC medal ribbon - 6 Inches for R50.00

 BRITISH - ROYAL FLEET RESERVE L.S. & G.C MINIATURE MEDAL. - GEO V1 This is a scarce miniature in good condition, but I think the ribbon is incorrect. •The postage on this item will be R48.00 within S. A. (Registered with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.    

Buy Two pictures of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships - RFA Reliant and RFA Resource for R95.00

Buy Sint Helena 2011 - KERS(T) / CHRISTMAS ROYAL FLEET set (4) MNH - Posvars - Postfris ! Transport !!! for R129.00

    TRISTAN DA CUNHA 1978 - KONINKLIKE VLOOT / ROYAL VLEET SET (4) KOMPLEET - PERFECT U/M ! POSVARS - MNH ! FLAGS - VESSELS ! A VERY FINE SET !!!   (Afrikaans, Nederlands, Deutsch, English).    

                                           Royal Naval Commission Document 1942, original, pasted down, condition: very good. Signed by Admiral of the Fleet   Sir John Cunningham  GCB,   Commander-in-Chief of the  Mediterranean Fleet  with responsibility for the Anzio  landings    and the allied landings in  the south of France  during WWII..  Admiral   Sir William ‘Jock‘ Whitworth  KCB DSO,  Second Sea Lord a nd commander of the Battle Cruiser Squadron [1939].  He led the Royal Navy to victory at the second  Battle of Narvik off Norway in 1940.   Sir J Sidney Barnes, KBE, CB, secretary to the Admirality.

Buy Royal Navy, Mediterranean Fleet: 1932 Silver Athletics Medal In Case for R72.00

Buy Fleet Air Arm Aircraft of WW2 British Built Types used by the Royal Navy for R70.00

FULL SIZE ROYAL NAVY WW1 & WW2 MEDAL GROUP TO THE SAME PERSON- WW1 MEDALS NAMED TO J 80756 J.F.W. COLLINS ORD R.N.- WW2 MEDALS UNNAMED- ROYAL FLEET RESERVE MEDAL NAMED TO J. 80756 (C.H.B. 21599) J.F.W. COLLINS L.S.R.F.R.    

ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER JEWEL. The main jewel is stamped GK&S, the obverse engraved Deo Regi Fratribus Honor Fidelitas Benevolentia around the circle, the lower ribbon engraved T.Harper Fleet Street Fecit, the reverse engraved Talia Si Jungere Possis Sit Tibi Scire Satis. AD, the lower ribbon engraved Nil Nisi Clavis Deest. Made by G.Kenning & Sons Ltd, London In good condition, marks clear, engraving crisp     Postage Post Office with Tracking number R60-00 Couriered within SA. R110

Buy THE RED FLEET AND THE ROYAL NAVY BY MAIRIN MITCHELL 1ST EDITION 1942 for R55.00

Buy Silver Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Sweetheart Brooch. (SB45) Missing Pin. for R250.00

Buy THE RED FLEET AND THE ROYAL NAVY BY MAIRIN MITCHELL 1ST EDITION 1942 for R45.00

From Great Britain, a Medal to Commemorate the Review of the British Naval Fleet by the Newly Crowned King Edward VII at Spithead on 16 August 1902 immediately after the Boer War. Originally planned for 28 June (as dated on the medal) but postponed because of the King's illness. Designed by Emil Fuchs and made by Elkingon & Co. Reference: British Historical Medals 3866. Further information at South African Medals.  Bronze. Diameter 38.8 mm. Mass 30.6 gm. Comes inside the original case from Searle & Co. Ltd. of London. Out of the hundreds of ships in line on review, the Union-Castle Line ship, the SS Hawarden Castle (according to BHM), was chosen for the reverse. She was still part of the British Navy having been requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a troop ship during the Boer war.     

    GREAT MINIATURE SHEET / MINIATUURVELLETJIE - POSTFRIS - POSVARS - MNH - U/M - SHIPS ! BOATS - BOTE - VLOOT - TRANSPORT !!!    

Cook Islands 1 dollar Famous Battles Naval Trafalgar 1805 Coloured Proof 2010 Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Cook Island Metal Purity:    ¿Silver 0.999 Box:   Yes Year of Issue:   2010 Weight:   1 Oz CoA:   Yes Face Value:   1 dollar Dimensions:   40.60     Quality:   Proof     Mintage:   5,000   Fought near the Spanish port of Cadiz on 21 October 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar ended Napoleon Bonaparte's plan to invade Britain. But it cost the life of Horatio Lord Nelson, the Royal Navy's Lost famous and successful admiral.With his 27 ships aligned into two columns, Nelson signalled 'England expects that every man will do his duty'. He then dosecl in on the 33-strong Franco-Spanish fleet at right angles, a risky head-on manoeuvre that exposed his ships' undefended bows to enemy broadsides.Hit numerous times, Nelson's flagship HMS Victory successfully breached the combined fleet's centre. Running close to the stern of I the Bucentaure, she unleashed a crippling volley that ripped into the stern of the opposition's flagship before grappling with Redoutable.At the height of the fighting, Nelson waspickedoff by aFrench marksman. With the enemy in chaos, however, his tactics had already proved effective. As he lay dying below deck, the second British column under Admiral Collingwood completed the rout, asserting the Royal Navy's control of the world's oceans.The coin's reverse portrays HMS Victory, one of the most famous warships ever built. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

Cook Islands 1 dollar Famous Battles Naval Trafalgar 1805 Coloured Proof 2010 Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Cook Island Metal Purity:    ¿Silver 0.999 Box:   Yes Year of Issue:   2010 Weight:   1 Oz CoA:   Yes Face Value:   1 dollar Dimensions:   40.60     Quality:   Proof     Mintage:   5,000   New coin with capsule, CoA and box Fought near the Spanish port of Cadiz on 21 October 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar ended Napoleon Bonaparte's plan to invade Britain. But it cost the life of Horatio Lord Nelson, the Royal Navy's Lost famous and successful admiral.With his 27 ships aligned into two columns, Nelson signalled 'England expects that every man will do his duty'. He then dosecl in on the 33-strong Franco-Spanish fleet at right angles, a risky head-on manoeuvre that exposed his ships' undefended bows to enemy broadsides.Hit numerous times, Nelson's flagship HMS Victory successfully breached the combined fleet's centre. Running close to the stern of I the Bucentaure, she unleashed a crippling volley that ripped into the stern of the opposition's flagship before grappling with Redoutable.At the height of the fighting, Nelson waspickedoff by aFrench marksman. With the enemy in chaos, however, his tactics had already proved effective. As he lay dying below deck, the second British column under Admiral Collingwood completed the rout, asserting the Royal Navy's control of the world's oceans.The coin's reverse portrays HMS Victory, one of the most famous warships ever built. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

By Neil McCart 1999. Hard cover with dust cover, 208 pages. Very good condition; tightly bound, neat and clean. Under 1kg. This is the first, and only, book to tell the full stories of the last three Ark Royals in detail; the wartime Ark Royal which saw so much action in the first two years of the Second World War; the Ark Royal of the 1950s, 60s and 70s which, during the years of intense antagonism between the superpowers, projected British maritime air power all over the world; and the present Ark Royal which will take the Fleet Air Arm into the 21st century. The in - depth research has allowed the author to cover the careers of all three carriers, through each year of their operational service with the Royal Navy. There are 165 top quality photographs, including 15 in colour, covering their careers, from the launching of the third Ark Royal in 1937, right through to the present Ark Royals final deployment in the last decade of the 20th century.      

  Softcover in good condition. Publisher: Cassell Military Paperbacks. 2001. 350 pages.   For the Germans, the Battle of Jutland in 1916 should have been a simple set piece that lured the British Grand Fleet into a lethal trap. Instead, it turned into a confused, rambling conflict. The Royal Navy suffered higher losses, but the German fleet never again ventured out of harbor to fight. Using previously unseen records, action reports, letters, plus charts and drawings of major warships, a naval historian tells this absorbing tale from the German perspective. It sheds new light on just what happened.

235 pages Published: 1971 Genre: Historical, Military, WWii Operation Cerberus was the name given to major naval operation during WWII in which a German Kriegsmarine fleet consisting of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, supported by a number of smaller ships sailed from Brest, France to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel. On 2/11/42, the ships left Brest at 21.15 & escaped detection for more than twelve hours, approaching the Straits of Dover without check. Despite British attacks by the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm & Coastal Artillery, by 2/13 all the ships had completed their transit. The action has entered history as the "Channel Dash". Illustrated with a map of the English channel & the North Sea & eight pages of black & white photos. Book condition: Very Good – Moderate signs of wear. A bit shelf worn and bumped corners. Some dog eared pages and creases on the cover may appear. No missing pages, no writing in the book. Pages on the inside of the book are still in a very good condition.   PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME REGARDING ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY ITEMS FOR SALE. I WILL COMBINE ORDERS FOR POSTAGE/COURIER. HAVE A LOOK AT MY OTHER ITEMS, THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING YOU LIKE.  

This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920's and '30s-when aircraft were refuelled from jerrycans and landing grounds were often the local golf course-to the disbandment of the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) on Zimbabwean independence in 1980. In 1939 the tiny Royal Rhodesian Air Force (RRAF) became the first to take up battle stations even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The three Rhodesian squadrons served with distinction in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe. At home Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from across the Empire-from Britain, the Commonwealth and even Greece. After the war, Rhodesia, on a negligible budget, rebuilt its air force, equipping it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes. Following UDI, the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, international sanctions were imposed, resulting in many remarkable and groundbreaking innovations, particularly in the way of ordnance. The bitter 'bush war' followed in the late 1960s and '70s, with the RhAF in the vanguard of local counter-insurgency operations and audacious pre-emptive strikes against vast guerrilla bases in neighbouring Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana and as far afield as Angola and Tanzania. With its ageing fleet, including C-47 'Dakotas' that had been at Arnhem, the RhAF was able to wreak untold havoc on the enemy, Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA. The late author took over 30 years in writing this book; the result is a comprehensive record that reflects the pride, professionalism and dedication of what were some of the world's finest airmen of their time. Paperback, 856 pages, 800 photos, 70 diagrams & maps SECOND EDITION: PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2015

  A Pride Of Eagles: A History Of The Rhodesian Air Force - Beryl Salt  2015 edition. Soft cover, 760 pages. Very good condition; like new. Over 1kg. This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920's and '30s-when aircraft were refuelled from jerrycans and landing grounds were often the local golf course-to the disbandment of the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) on Zimbabwean independence in 1980. In 1939 the tiny Royal Rhodesian Air Force (RRAF) became the first to take up battle stations even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The three Rhodesian squadrons served with distinction in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe. At home Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from across the Empire-from Britain, the Commonwealth and even Greece. After the war, Rhodesia, on a negligible budget, rebuilt its air force, equipping it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes. Following UDI, the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, international sanctions were imposed, resulting in many remarkable and groundbreaking innovations, particularly in the way of ordnance. The bitter 'bush war' followed in the late 1960s and '70s, with the RhAF in the vanguard of local counter-insurgency operations and audacious pre-emptive strikes against vast guerrilla bases in neighbouring Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana and as far afield as Angola and Tanzania. With its ageing fleet, including C-47 'Dakotas' that had been at Arnhem, the RhAF was able to wreak untold havoc on the enemy, Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA. The late author took over 30 years in writing this book; the result is a comprehensive record that reflects the pride, professionalism and dedication of what were some of the world's finest airmen of their time. Paperback, 856 pages, 800 photos, 70 diagrams & maps SECOND EDITION: PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2015

By Neil McCart 2000. Hard cover with dust cover, 191 pages. Very good condition; tightly bound, neat and clean. Under 1kg. Contains "comprehensive histories of the six fleet aircraft carriers of the Illustrious and Implacable classes which dominated the Royal Navy's aviation between 1940 and the early 1950's: "Illustrious", "Formidable", "Victorious", "Indomitable", "Indefatigable" and "Implacable".