Buy this book on-line TRE-POL-PEN: : "BREAK!" How the Navy Prepares for War ["The Fleet" Series. No.1.]LONDON.THE WESTMINSTER PRESS (GERRARDS LTD.) Nd,[c1905/6}. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,ex-lib,slim 12mo HB,1st edn.VG++ [Ex-lib issue with bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,dark green library cloth binding with bright,crisp,stamped gilt tooling for library numeration,author+title lettering
to spine/backstrip.FINE (appearance externally) but graded VG++ (conservatively) internally,due to age and ex-library notations.No owner inscrptn,but neat,clean,dark blue Anchor motif'ed 'Plymouth Public Libraries - MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY' bookplate pasted to front pastedown.A red ink 'Withdrawn From Plymouth Library Services' rectangular stamp to front free endpaper and another two separate,black ink library stamps,side by side,to recto of title-page at it's bottom edge - one rectangular,the other circular.Recto of rear free endpaper's lower edge has taped library barcodes,and to bottom edges of the book,another slim rectangular,black ink 'Plymouth Public Libraries' stamp.No other ex-lib notation, apart from those already described.UK,ex-lib,slim 12mo HB,1st edn,10-95pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters/sections/
articles including an introductory article by Lionel Yexley.Plus [unpaginated]; 2pp blanks,monochrome photographic frntis with library sellotape repair,to a tiny nick towards the middle of it's vertical edge,
title-page,contents list/table,7 other monochrome photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book; 6 of which have library's sellotape strengthening repair to either verso or recto aspects - the last photograph being untouched,8pp publisher's adverts,with similar library's sellotape strengthening repair and 2pp blank at rear.
Lionel Yexley is the pen-name of James Wood,an able seaman who had transferred from the Navy to the Coast-Guard Service and then left the sea to become editor of a small but influential lower-deck newspaper called the "Bluejacket".
He was regarded as a subversive influence by the majority of senior naval officers of the time.He edited the celebrated "Log" series of commission books during the Edwardian era,and in 1905 he resigned from the "Bluejacket" in order to launch his own-lower-deck monthly,'The Fleet'.Out of this grew this series of which this is Number 1.The identity of 'Tre-Pol-Pen' is not known,but it is a description used to indicate or identify a Cornishmen by his name with any of the 3 prefixes 'Tre', 'Pol','Pen'.The title is taken from 'Break the pennant! England is ready on the sea'; metaphorically,the pennant of war is ever ready at the mast-head waiting for the order to 'Break'.
Chapters in this book include Steam Trials.Coaling Ship.'Man and Arm Boats'.The Flitting of the Fleet.'Out Nets'.Man Overboard.'Night Quarters','The Assassins of the Sea' (destroyer-torpedo-boats). 'Clear for Action'.'Land Every Available Man'.'Mooring Ship',The Sailing Race.Pay Day.Rolling Home.
Yexley's trenchant criticisms attracted Fisher's attention and the Admiral invited Yexley to his home and was won over by his arguments.
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