The naval war in the Mediterranean Sea... compiled by Albert Close... sold by Edward Stanford Ltd. Cartographers by appointment to HM the King 12 13 & 14 Long Acre London WC2

Scale: 1:3,500,000. Printed (photolith.) chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Some red colouring. With twelve inset maps. Variation. Positions of ships sunk marked. List of U Boats list of British ships sunk in the Mediterranean 1915-1918 revealations etc. Lives lost. Pictures of U boat Commanders and Sanders. Coordinates given. Linen backed.
Insets: Spanish War 1936-7; Map of Europe showing the Ten Kingdoms of Horns formerly ruled by the Papal Beast of Little Horn; Italian island fortress; map showing the territories of the Babylonian, Medo Persian, Grecian and Roman empires; Italian base 1937; the Dardanelles attacks Feb-Aug 1915; Gen Allenby delivers Palestine 1917-1918 AD defeat of Gen Liman von Sanders; the partition of Palestine 1937; the great oil fields; means by which the shipping routes could be blockaded; the drying up of the Turkish empire; Red and Mediterranean Sea strategy

Object Details

ID: CLO230:1/20
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Close, Albert; Edward Stanford Ltd
Date made: 1937
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 128.5 cm x 88 cm