Folio. 4009-4015pp. Contemporary green buckram-backed tan paper boards, manuscript lettering-piece, printed library shelf-label, and blind-stamp of the Foreign Office to upper board. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Bookplate of the Foreign Office Library to FFEP, internally clean and crisp. A duplicate copy, stapled, is loosely inserted.

An ex-Foreign Office Library copy of a supplement to The London Gazette - one of the official journals of record of the British Government - published on 12th July 1948, recording despatches submitted to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty by Vice-Admiral A. U. Willis regarding the destruction of German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis by H.M.S. Devonshire on 22nd November 1941.