Navy and Pirates

NAV 106

Photo album belonging to a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, early post war/Korean War. 79 photos, with many on shore leave at Yokosuka, Japan. Much fraternizing with the local women. Numerous photos of the ship. No captions.

Price: $500.00

Note from Wikipedia: USS Valley Forge (CV/CVA/CVS-45, LPH-8) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the first US Navy ship to bear the name. Valley Forge was commissioned in November 1946, too late to serve in World War II, but saw extensive service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was reclassified in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), then to an antisubmarine carrier (CVS), and finally to an amphibious assault ship (LPH), carrying helicopters and Marines. As a CVS she served in the Atlantic and Caribbean. She was the prime recovery vessel for an early uncrewed Mercury space mission. After conversion to an LPH she served extensively in the Vietnam War. Valley Forge was awarded eight battle stars for Korean War service and nine for Vietnam War service, as well as three Navy Unit Commendations. Although she was extensively modified internally as part of her conversion to an amphibious assault ship, external modifications were minor, so throughout her career Valley Forge retained the classic appearance of a World War II Essex-class ship. She was decommissioned in 1970, and sold for scrap in 1971.

NAV 105

Large Vichy dossier titled Information for sailors repatriated from Germany, dated August-September 1941. Propaganda for returning naval personnel released from Germany, it tracts the early development of the war and goes at length to explain the betrayal of the British navy at Mers El Kebir and the Battle of Dakar, finishing off with English aggression towards Syria. Complete. SOLD

Price: $800.00

NAV 104

Conference given to torpedo boat students at the end of their training period, December 1929. 22 pages, complete. SOLD

Price: $150.00

NAV 103

Early French confectionary chromo set using French sailors for advertising.

Price: $150.00

NAV 102

Early French confectionary chromo set using sailors to sell Chocolat de la Cie. Francaise.

Price: $120.00

NAV 101

10 World War 1 Italian navy patriotic fantasy postcards.

Price: $400.00

NAV 100

10 World War 1 Italian navy patriotic fantasy postcards.

Price: $400.00

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18 period French, Italian and Japanese postcards of the Russo-Japanese War.

Price: $1080.00

NAV 098Two postcards of the Italian frigate Giuseppe Garibaldi, which was a steam frigate of the Regia Marina of Italy. It was the first ship to be named after General Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Price: $40.00

Note from Wikipediaa: She was laid down in the royal shipyard at Castellammare di Stabia on 1 April 1857 and launched in January 1860, entering service in the Real Marina of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on 10 July 1860, under the name Borbone. In August 1860 she reached Messina to assist other naval ships based there to hold up Garibaldi's advance, exchanging fire with the former Bourbon ship Veloce, which had been captured by the Garibaldian forces and renamed Tüköry after Lajos Tüköry, a Hungarian official who had been killed on 6 July 1860 at Palermo while taking part in the Expedition of the Thousand. On 7 September 1860 Garibaldi issued a decree that all the ships and arsenals of the former Bourbon fleet were to be incorporated into the King of Italy's fleet and two days after the Borbone (now renamed the Giuseppe Garibaldi) entered the Sardinian fleet it took part in the siege of Gaeta, the last Bourbon stronghold. She was incorporated into the Regia Marina on its creation in 1861 and was due for decommissioning in 1870, but was instead refitted after the battle of Lissa due to a scarcity of available naval ships, with her armament improved, her superstructure lowered and her sails and rigging removed, at a cost of £200,000. On 16 November 1872 she left Naples for a circumnavigation of the globe, stopping at Gibraltar and Rio de Janeiro, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1873 visiting Australia, the Fiji Islands and Japan. After stopping there for around two months, she visited San Francisco and several ports in Mexico and Central and South America. She then rounded Cape Horn, stopped at Montevideo and set off for Italy, reaching Spezia on 22 October 1874.

She was reclassified as a corvette in 1877 and the following year her boilers were replaced. She made a second circumnavigation between 1879 and 1882, defending Italian communities in Latin America and aiding the Italian and Austrian colonies at Suez by blockading the Suez Canal - Paolo Thaon di Revel was on board during this voyage. She was modified in 1883 and stationed in the Red Sea, taking part in the defence of Massawa before being disarmed and converted into a hospital ship in 1893, upon which she was renamed Saati to free up the name for the new armoured cruiser then being planned. She was finally decommissioned on 16 December 1894 and broken up in 1899.

NAV 097

4 World War 1 French naval humor postcards.

Price: $120.00