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Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics : to which are added a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus ... 1761 and an account ... of the transit of Venus 1639 ... / Ferguson, James. Ferguson, James, 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52

Mutiny on the Bounty : Discovery pack 1989 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 623.82Bounty

An Act for continuing the encouragement and reward of persons making certain discoveries for finding the longitude at sea, or making other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation, and for making experiments relating thereto; and for adding a Commissioner to execute the several Acts for the discovery of the longitude at sea Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1790 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537

Blow ye winds westerly : the seaports & sailing ships of old New England /by Elizabeth Gemming. Gemming, Elizabeth. 1971. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 917.4/03/3

Margetts's horary tables for shewing by inspection the apparent diurnal motion of the sun, moon and stars, the latitude of a ship and the azimuth, time or altitude corresponding with any celestial object Margetts, George. 1790? • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:527(083.5)

History of women 1996 • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 528.282-055.2

Steel's naval remembrancer, from the commencement of the war in 1793 to the end of the year 1800 : intended as a complete supplement to the Navy Lists up to that period ... Steel, David, [1801?]. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1800":094

Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1819/1820"

English Channel packet boats / by C. Grasemann, M.A. and G. W. P. McLachlan Grasemann, C 1939 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.66(261.2)

Gazettes of naval and military exploits, from 1794 to 1807. [1807?]. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.48/49"1794/1807"(42:44):094

Tables astronomiques calculees pour le meridien de Paris, sur les observsations des plus exactes, faites jusqu'a l'annee 1770 De La Lande, Jerome [1770] • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52-17:094

Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort A biography of Francis Beaufort (1774-1857). Beginning his career with the East India Company, Beaufort joined the Royal Navy in 1790 and rose through the ranks, retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1846 at the age of seventy-two. In 1805, Beaufort devised the first objective measure of wind strength, now known as the Beaufort Scale, officially adopted by the Royal Navy on voyages during the 1830s. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1829, was appointed the British Admiralty Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, serving in that position for twenty-six years, and helped to found the Royal Geographical Society. He trained Robert Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle, and in response to Fitzroy's request for a "well-educated and scientific gentleman", Beaufort's enquiries led to Charles Darwin joining the Beagle for her second voyage. Beaufort promoted the publication of reliable tide tables, expanded the British Admiralty Chart Series to some 2000 charts, directed some of the major naval explorations of the time, and played a leading role in the search for the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was knighted in 1848. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"17/18"

Cargoes of despair and hope : Scottish emigration to North America 1603-1803 A survey of Scottish emigration during the period 1603-1803. The emigration was driven by economic distress, political and religious harrassment. The book covers the early encouragement given to colonists, transportation, agricultural and industrial change as well as the impact of wars during the period including the Seven Years War, American War of Independence and war with France. Where possible, the authors have tried to follow individuals from their homes through their journey to North America and the book includes extracts from documents of the time, maps detailing location and movements of people, and family trees of migrating families from areas such as Glengarry and Glenaladale. Appendices include estimates of emigrant numbers, the percentage of Scots in the white population of the United States in 1790, the homes and destinations of emigrants to North America, and a list of ships known to have carried migrants to North America. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(41:73)

Three voyages for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and a narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 8 copies available. 623.82Fury

The quiet revolution of Caroline Herschel : the lost heroine of astronomy /Emily Winterburn. "Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788-1797. As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. ... By piecing together - from letters, reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of the time, we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of all time."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

Bowles's universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 094:929.9.024.2

Discoverers of the universe : William and Caroline Herschel /Michael Hoskin. This biography traces William and Caroline Herschel's many extraordinary contributions to astronomy, shedding new light on their productive but complicated relationship, and setting their scientific achievements in the context of their personal struggles, larger-than-life ambitions, bitter disappointments, and astonishing triumphs.--Book jacket. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

Steamers and ferries of the Northern Isles / Alistair Deayton. "Services from mainland Scotland to Orkney and Shetland were, from the dawn of steam navigation right up until 2002, in the hands of the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Company, known as the North Company, whose predecessors dated back to 1790 and which became part of P&O Ferries in 1975. In this book, Alistair Deayton uses his wonderful collection of photographs to tell the story of the ferries and steamers of the northern isles, including not only the North Company but its successors and competitors on the routes between mainland Scotland and the islands, including chartered vessels and wartime Ministry of War Transport ships travelling to Scapa Flow. The book also includes the inter-island ferries in both Orkney and Shetland, not forgetting the services to remote Foula and Fair Isle. This book is a must for all those interested in the transport history of Orkney and Shetland and evokes the days when the only way to travel to the northern isles was by sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.66(411.1/.2)"18/20"

Naval engagements : patriotism, cultural politics, and the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 /Timothy Jenks. Jenks, Timothy. c2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"

Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour /edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. 1991. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/09

Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain / Jack P. Greene. "This volume comprehensively examines the ways metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years War produced a substantial critique of empire. Evolving out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviors exhibited by many groups of Britons overseas and building on a language of "otherness" that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies, and polities that Britons abroad had constructed in their new habitats, this critique used the languages of humanity and justice as standards by which to evaluate and condemn the behaviors, in turn, of East India Company servants, American slaveholders, Atlantic slave traders, Irish pensioners, absentees, oppressors of Catholics, and British political and military leaders during the American War of Independence. Although this critique represented a massive contemporary condemnation of British colonialism and manifested an impulse among metropolitans to distance themselves from imperial excesses, the benefits of empire were far too substantial to permit any turning away from it, and the moment of sensibility waned"-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44:325.3/.4

Five hundred years of Deptford and Woolwich Royal Dockyards; Marking the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Thames yards by Henry VIII opened by Dame Joan Ruddock MP for Lewisham Deptford : Transactions of the Naval Dockyard Society Volume 11 January 2019; conference held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich 20 April 2013. The Naval Dockyard Society. 2019. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Frigate commander / by Tom Wareham. Based on the previously unpublished private journal of Admiral Sir Graham Moore (1764-1843), this work primarily focuses on Moore's career as a frigate commander beginning with his service in the Perseus, Dido and Adamant. Commanding first the Orestes and the sloop Bonetta in 1790, Moore was promoted to post captain in 1794 with command of the Syren, his first frigate command. His later commands included the larger frigates Melampus and Indefatigable which he commanded until 1805 when ill-health forced him to relinquish the command and ended Moore's career as a frigate commander. However, his naval career continued with commands of the Marlborough and Chatham. Moore was promoted first to the rank of rear admiral and commander-in-chief in the Baltic in 1812, and then in 1819 to vice admiral when he was given command of the Mediterranean station. Moore was promoted in 1837 to full admiral and commander-in-chief Plymouth, but his health continued to deteriorate and he died in 1843. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92MOORE, GRAHAM

Nautical odes : or, Poetical sketches designed to commemorate the achievements of the British Navy. 1801. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-1

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