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Sailors on the rocks : famous Royal Navy shipwrecks /Peter C. Smith. "For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did "Rule the Waves", in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral was to generously acknowledge that the Royal Navy possessed, "a tradition of victory". And yet, in every other way, the waves were never ruled by any maritime power. Great fleets might wax and wane, ships grow ever more complex and powerful, but the sea, the eternally cruel sea, was always to have the final say. This book highlights a sample array of disasters, occurring when men-of-war faced the ultimate test of the elements and lost. Among such tragedies are the wrecking of the Coronation in 1691, the destruction of the Winchester in 1695 and the great storm of 1703, along with a host of shipwrecks on far-flung shores from New Zealand to Nova Scotia, and from Florida to South Africa. Some of the featured stories are already famous, like that of the Birkenhead. Others are lesser-known, like the sister cruisers Raleigh and Effingham, separated by many years. More recently, steam power replaced the uncertainties of sail, but even so losses continued, from little destroyers in both world wars (Narborough, Opal and Sturdy among them) through great battleships like Montagu. Even modern warships equipped with every modern navigational device come to grief; witness the strange affair of the frigate Nottingham, or the humiliating grounding of the nuclear 'wonder' submarine Astute on Skye in 2010. This unique book presents a fascinating insight into the malevolent power of the sea and storms over man's creation and dominion, chronicling some of the most dramatic shipwrecks ever to have occurred in our seas."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3:355.49(42)
Bibliotheca Pepysiana : a descriptive catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys. A four-volume catalogue, digitally reprinted from the 1914 editon, containing a list and descriptions of items in the library of Samuel Pepys. Part I is a bibliography of 114 volumes classified by Pepys as the 'Sea' manuscripts. They consist mainly of official documents penned by retiring officials of Pepys's own time and documents brought together to serve as material for a projected History of the Navy. These include the naval discourses of Monson, Hollond and Slyngesbie, Mountgomery's Book of the Navy, Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightery, and Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture. Also included are books and papers, not necessarily dealing with naval history, that Pepys found of interest, and a subject and personal name index. Part II contains a general introduction to the library and its history, including extracts from Pepys's diary, will and accounts. It lists the early printed books including several liturgical books in the Sarum Rite and 1557 editions of Malory's La morte d'Arthur and the works of Thomas More. It also includes an index of printers. Part III is a catalogue of mainly Mediaeval Manuscripts and includes a brief list of these by title and an index of contents. Part IV, a bibliography of Pepys's books on stenography, also contains an alphabetical list of the authors of various methods of shorthand together with a similar list for works not found in the collection at its close in March 1695. A list of abbreviations comes before the introduction. 2009. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 017.1(425.9):091