Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy: A History of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries

by Steve Bush and Ben Warlow

Pendant (or pennant) numbers have been used by individual ships of the Royal Navy for purposes of identification for more than one hundred years. They were also used in all the navies of the British Empire so that ships could be easily transferred from one navy to another without changing her number. They offer the simplest and clearest way to identify a ship, but until now there has been little in the way of consistent and accurate information, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526793784
• ISBN13: 9781526793782
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"