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Great Britain's groans : or an account of the oppression, ruin, and destruction of the loyal seamen of England in the fatal loss of their pay, health and lives, and dreadful ruin of their families Hodges, William,-Sir, 1695 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.6(42)"1695"
The pirate king : the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of piracy /Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan. "Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air--and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery's adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted criminal on earth. To the authorities, Avery was the enemy of all mankind. To the people he was a hero. Rumors swirled about his disappearance. The only certainty is that Henry Avery became a ghost. What happened to the notorious Avery has been pirate history's most baffling cold case for centuries. Now, in a remote archive, a coded letter written by "Avery the Pirate" himself - years after he disappeared - reveals the story of the pirate who came in from the cold. In The Pirate King, Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan brilliantly tie Avery to the shadowy lives of two other icons of the early 18th century: Daniel Defoe, the world-famous author of Robinson Crusoe and - as few people know - a deep-cover spy and Archbishop Thomas Tenison, the Archbishop of Canterbury with a hatred of Catholic France. Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan's The Pirate King brilliantly reveals the untold epic story of Henry Avery in all it's colorful glory - his exploits, his survival, his secret double life, and how he inspired the golden age of piracy."-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45
An account of the sorts and numbers of ships and vessels now building for His Majesty : added to his Royal Navy, cleaned and refitted yearly, rebuilt and repair'd, kept in sea-pay, since this war : as the same was presented to His Majesty by the Officers of His Navy at His going over to Holland 1695 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:623.82(42)"1695"
Anno regni Annae reginae ... secundo : at the Parliament ...20th day of August, 1702 : an Act for the increase of seamen, and better encouragement of navigation ... Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1703 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
Anno regni Annae reginae ... secundo : at the Parliament ... 20th day of August, 1702 ... : an Act for enlarging the term of years ... for the repair of Dover Harbour Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1703 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
An Act for the better admeasurement of keels and keel-boats in the port of New-castle, and the members thereunto belonging Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1695 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 094:342.537
An exact journal of the victorious expedition of the confederate fleet, the last year, under the command of the Right Honourable Admiral Russel ... : giving an account of his relieving Barcellona ... with a copy of the letter sent by the Algerines to ... the English admiral. To which is added a relation of the engagement between Capt Killegrew and the two French men of war 1695 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1694"(42:44)
Anno regni Gulielmi III ... XII & XIII : at the Parliament ... 6th day of February, 1700 ... : an Act to enable His Majesty to make leases and copies of offices, lands, and hereditaments, parcel of His Dutchy of Cornwall ... Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1701 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
History of women 1996 • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 528.282-055.2
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)
The Portugues Asia : or, the history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues, containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land ... Faria y Sousa, Manuel de 1971 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.48"14/16"(469:5/6)
Russian warships in the age of sail, 1696-1860 : design, construction, careers and fates /John Tredrea and Eduard Sozaev. "Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful, and at times in the eighteenth century was the third largest navy in the world - yet its history, and especially its ships, are virtually unrecorded in the West. This major new reference work handsomely fills this gap, with a complete and comprehensive list of the fleet, with technical detail and career highlights for every ship, down to small craft. However, because the subject is so little recorded in English, the book also provides substantial background material on the organisation and administration of the navy, its weapons, personnel and shipbuilding facilities, as well as an outline of Russia?s naval campaigns down to the clash with Britain and France known as the Crimean War. Illustrated with plans, paintings and prints rarely seen outside Russia, it is authoritative, reliable and comprehensive, the culmination of a long collaboration between a Russian naval historian and an American ship enthusiast."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(47)"1696/1860"
Tales from the Captain's Log : from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin, Blackbeard and Nelson - accounts of great events at sea from those who were there "For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that they encountered. Entries range from Captain James Cook's notes of his discovery of the South Pacific and Australia, to logs of the great naval battles, such as Waterloo and Trafalgar. From the ships that attempted to stop piracy in the Caribbean, to the surgeons who recorded the health of the men they tended and naturalists who noted the exotic plants and animals they encountered, comes a fascinating picture of life at sea, richly illustrated with maps, drawings and facsimile documents found alongside the logs in the archives."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)
Oxford : mapping the city /Daniel MacCannell. "Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging Roundheads, raging floodwaters, and the ravages of cholera; to plan the new canals and bridges of the eighteenth century and the new railways, tramways and suburbs of the nineteenth; to determine and display changes in the city's political stature under the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867; to aid police enforcement of the laws against homosexuality; and even to plan a Soviet ground assault on the heart of the British motor industry. Given its status as a world centre of drama, poetry, literature, music, architecture, and scientific experimentation, and sometime royal capital, it is unsurprising that Oxford was the first British town to be included in map form in a tourist guidebook, as early as 1762, and one of just two inland towns mapped by French invasion planners in the Seven Years' War.For the first time, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together sixty of the most remarkable maps and views of the area that have been made by friend and foe since 1575."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 911.425/74
Bibliotheca Pepysiana : a descriptive catalogue of the library of Samuel Pepys. Parts I, III and IV of a four-volume catalogue (the set excludes Part II) 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 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. 1914-1940. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 017.1(425.9):091
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
Britain and the China trade 1635-1842 This multi-volume work covers Britain's commercial operations in India from 1695-1842, with particular focus on meetings between British diplomats and Chinese officials in 1793 and 1816. It is designed to combine early works on the subject and significant relevant primary sources for reference use. The first five volumes consist of Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834, included for its significant transcription work of records from the India Office. Volume VI is a reprint of The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese relations, 1750-1800 by E H Pritchard, a later study that used Morse's statistics. Volume IX is Michael Greenberg's British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42. The remaining volumes are a collection of relevant primary sources. Volumes VII and VIII examine the Macartney embassy of 1792 from different angles; Volume VII contains instructions issued to Macartney by the East India Company; Volume VIII is Macartney's private journal of the embassy. Finally, Volume X is Notes of Proceedings and Occurences During the British embassy to Pekin in 1816 by Sir George Thomas Staunton. 2000 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 382(42:51)"1635/1842"