Hardcover. 4to. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1985. 120 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends scuffed and worn and discolored). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived. Launched in 1760 during the Seven Years War, she belonged to the first truly successful class of British 74-gun ships, a design by Thomas Slade that was built in large numbers over more than twenty years.
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