NAV 096
4 World War 1 and 2 French naval fantasy postcards.
Price: $120.00
Navy and Pirates
NAV 095
NAV 095
Set of 17 postcards of life in the French navy during World War 1. Sponsored by the shoemaker Sommet Chartres (established in 1875). Also one other copycat postcard by shoe competitor A Saiant-Cripin.
Price: $540.00
NAV 094
8 World War 1 postcards of French hospital ships.
Price: $240.00
NAV 093
8 French humor postcards, series Amities de Toulon, published 1916-1917.
Price: $320.00
NAV 092
3 1919-1920 French navy humor postcards illustrated by Mario Pazilla.
Price: $120.00
NAV 091
4 1919 French navy humor postcards, illustrated by Gritt.
Price: $120.00
NAV 090
8 humor postcards “Nos Marins”, postally used during WW1.
Price: $240.00
NAV 089
NAV 089
32 photos on postcard stock of post-WW2 ships of the French navy. All named.
Price: $640.00
NAV 088
1927 tribute album from the Compagnia Italiana Transatlantica for the 1927 pilgrimage to Mecca. At the time, the fleet consisted of 21 steamers and picked up passengers from North Africa and the east coast of Africa bound for Mecca. The album is written in Italian and Arabic.
Price: $800.00
Note from Wikipedia: Transatlantica Italiana S.A. di Navigazione was acquired by Hamburg America Line when they purchased Ligure Brasiliana in 1913, but was registered under the Italian flag. In 1914 the name was changed to Transatlantica Italiana (CITRA) and in 1915, following the entry of Italy into the Great War, an Italian board of directors was formed and all German held shares were purchased. In 1932 the Citra merged with the Tirrenia - Flotte Riunite Florio – Citra.
NAV 087
Official album of the cruiser “Jules Michelet”, commanded by Captain d Vaisseau Devon. It covers the campaign of 1927-1928 in Indochina. 132 very well captioned photos covering all stops of the campaign, including Wang – P’ou, Shanghai, Zi-Ka-Wei, Chi-Wan-Tao, Port Arthur, Seoul, Nagasaki, Yokahama, Kyoto, Miajama, Amoi, Hong Kong, Halong, Saigon, Cam Ranh, Hue, and Manilla. SOLD
Price: $900.00
Note from Wikipedia: Jules Michelet was laid down in June 1904 as a modified version of the Leon Gambetta class class of armoured cruisers. It was slightly longer and heavier than the previous class, and while it had a similar machinery layout, with 28 boilers supplying vertical triple-expansion steam engines which drove three propeller shafts, the engines delivered 1,500 ihp (1,100 kW) more power, allowing the ship to reach a design speed of 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph). The ship was fitted with four funnels. During the First World War, Jules Michelet was part of the Mediterranean Fleet, spending the whole of the war in the Mediterranean.[6] At the start of the conflict, Jules Michelet and the armored cruisers Ernest Renan and Edgar Quinet were mobilized as the First Light Division and tasked with hunting down the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau. The French ships, along with a flotilla of twelve destroyers, were to steam to Philippeville on 4 August, but the German cruisers had bombarded the port the previous day. This attack, coupled with reports that suggested the Germans would try to break out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, prompted the French high command to send Jules Michelet and the First Light Division further west, to Algiers to block the Germans. After the German ships escaped to Constantinople, rather than attack the French troop transports from North Africa as had been expected, the French turned to address the next naval threat: the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea. Edgar Quinet joined the rest of the French fleet in its blockade of the Adriatic, based out of Navarino. The fleet, commanded by Admiral Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, had assembled by the night of 15 August; the following morning, it conducted a sweep into the Adriatic and encountered the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Zenta. In the ensuing Battle of Antivari, Zenta was sunk, with no losses on the French side. The French fleet then withdrew due to the threat of Austro-Hungarian U-boats in the area. Twelve of Jules Michelet's 47 mm guns were removed during the war, replaced by four anti-aircraft guns of similar size. She took place in the evacuation of the Serbian army from Corfu to Bizerta in 1915 and later supported Allied operations in the Salonika campaign. Following the signing of the Armistice of Mudros, ending the participation of Turkey in the First World War, Jules Michelet was deployed through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea in November 1918.
Jules Michelet went on a brief tour of French Indochina in 1922–1923 with the armoured cruiser Victor Hugo. The pair left France on 12 October 1922, arriving on 19 April 1923. They cruised East Asian waters until 10 May when they departed for France, which they reached on 11 July. Jules Michelet was deployed to Indochina for a lengthier stay as the flagship of the Far East squadron in the late 1920s; she left France on 15 June 1925 and arrived in July. She remained there until May 1929, when she was replaced by Waldeck-Rousseau. Jules Michelet returned to France on 10 July 1929, after which she was paid off and placed in reserve. She was disarmed the following year and was used as a barracks ship at Toulon. The ship was later used as a target ship for aircraft and submarines, being sunk by the submarine Thétis in 1937.