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Fabulous admirals and some naval fragments : being a brief account of some of the froth on those characters who enlivened the Royal Navy a generation or two ago

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MCMLVII [1957]
Call number: 488820
Creator: Lowis, Geoffrey L(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Haskell Kemble. Bookplate of John Haskell Kemble.
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated people: Boyd, Denis,; Broome, Jack,; Kemble, John Haskell,
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