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Mutiny on the Bounty / Peter FitzSimons. "The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor. Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island - at the time not even marked on British maps - and settling there. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks."--Provided by the publisher. [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"
Allgemeines Worterbuch der Marine in allan Europaeischen Seesprachen nebst vollstaendigen Erklaerungen Roding, Johann Hinrich 1969 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 656.61:800.866
Methods proposed for decreasing the consumption of timber in the navy, by means of prolonging the duration of our ships of war; with observations on fastening ships with iron knees ... in a letter addressed to the Right Hon John, Earl of Chatham ... together with a letter ... on the way of keeping, seasoning, and converting timber ... Nichols, Thomas 1793 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 629.12.011.87:094:674
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780 : being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory abridgement of the voyage Cook, James 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"
My inestimable friend / Alastair R. Brown. A biography of Rear-Admiral William Brown (1764-1814), the author's great-great-grandfather. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 as a captain's servant before being appointed a midshipman. He passed his lieutenant's examination in 1788, was promoted to commander in 1791, post-captain in 1793 and was made Rear-Admiral in 1811. He served with the Mediterranean Fleet and joined the Channel Fleet in 1794 under Lord Howe. Brown, then in command of the Ajax, returned to England to give evidence at the court-martial of Vice-Admiral Robert Calder in 1805. A full list of Brown's ships and his family tree are provided. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BROWN
Ordenanzas generales de la armada naval : sobre la gobernacion militar y marinera de la armada en general, y uso de sus fuerzas en la mar 1793 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:355.51(46)
An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island : with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean since the publication of Phillip's voyage Hunter, John 1793 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(944)"1787/1788"
The press gang : naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain /Nicholas Rogers. The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it.--From publisher description. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.212(42)
The naval history of Great Britain / W. M. James ; new introductions by Andrew Lambert. James, William, 2001. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 355.49"1793/1827"(42)
Southampton : gateway to the British Empire /edited by Miles Taylor. 2007. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 914.227
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
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons : to whom it was referred to consider of the report which was made from the Committee to whom the petition of Thomas Mudge, watch-maker was referred, and who were directed to examine into the matter thereof, and also to make enquiry into the principals on which Mr. Mudge's time-keepers have been constructed. Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 11 June 1793. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 529:094
The art of a nation : three centuries of Irish painting /Jonathan Benington [and others] ; edited by William Laffan. An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries held at Pyms Gallery in London. The catalogue comprises 30 artists: Charles Collins (c. 1700-1744); Judith Lewis (1711-1781); Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784); Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1806); George Mullins (active 1756-1775/6); Matthew William Peters (1741-1814); Joseph Wilson (active 1756-d. 1793); John Boyne (c. 1750-1810); George Chinnery (1774-1852); James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841); William Henry Maguire (1806-1853), Irish School (1837); Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917); John Butler Yeats (1839-1922); Howard Helmick (1845-1907); Sarah Purser (1848-1943); Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1914); William Henry Bartlett (1858-1914); Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903); Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940); Grace Henry (1868-1953); Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); Paul Henry (1876-1958); Sir William Orpen (1878-1931); William John Leech (1881-1968); Mary Swanzy (1882-1978); Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992); Colin Middleton (1910-1983); and William Scott (1913-1989). 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(415)
Shipshape and Bristol fashion / John C.G. Hill. This book deals with the Bristol shipping firm Charles Hill and Sons, which grew out of the Hotwells shipbuilding business of James Hillhouse. There is a background history of the City of Bristol from the 18th century onwards. The establishment of the Bristol City Line by Charles Hill in 1879 is also covered. There are numerous illustrations, mainly in black and white. The appendices contain lists of ships from 1793 to 1976. 1983. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 387.54/0654239
Captain Carteret and the voyage of the Swallow / H.G. Mowat. An account of the voyage of HMS Swallow to the South Pacific from 1766 -1769 under the command of Lieutenant Philip Carteret (1793-1796). Carteret, born in Jersey, joined the Navy at the age of 14, first serving in HMS Salisbury. Later, he served as lieutenant in HMS Dolphin under Captain John Byron on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1764-1766. Tasked with exploring the Pacific in the Swallow to search for the great southern continent thought to exist there, Carteret was critical of the ship's capabilities for such a voyage and doubted whether this was in fact, the planned destination. Initially sailing in the company of the faster HMS Dolphin under the command of Captain Samuel Wallis, the ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan. Carteret and the Swallow continued on independently resulting in the discovery of the Pitcairn Islands. Beset by illness on board and a lack of supplies, Swallow arrived back in England ten months after HMS Dolphin. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CARTERET:910.4(93/96)"17"
Nelson's Navy : recruitment, promotion, discipline and death /Dr Nicholas Slope. "In this insightful work, Dr. Nicholas Slope, naval historian and archaeologist, presents a social history of the Royal Navy during the time of Vice Admiral Nelson. He analyses the muster, pay and log books of three Royal Navy Frigates, HMS Trent, Amazon and Glenmore, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, using computer databases to explore life on board from 1793-1815. This book covers themes such as recruitment, officer development, child labour, promotion, desertion and death."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt
Midshipmen and quarterdeck boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831 / S.A. Cavell. "Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued that during the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social background of around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although there was a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.335.34"17/18"
The first panoramas : visions of British imperialism /Denise Blake Oleksijczuk. "The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering two-story architectural construction inside which spectators gazed on a 10,000-square-foot painting, Barker's new technology was designed to create an impression of total verisimilitude for the observer. In the beautifully illustrated The First Panoramas, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panoramas' history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits: View of Edinburgh and the Adjacent Country from the Calton Hill (1788), View of London from the Roof of the Albion Mill (1791), View of the Grand Fleet Moored at Spithead (1793), and the two different versions of View of Constantinople (1801). In addition to the art itself, she examines the panoramas' intriguing descriptive keys--single-sheet diagrams that directed spectators to important sites in the representation, which evolved over time to give the observer greater perceptual control over the view. Using the surviving evidence, much of it never published before, on the early exhibitions of these massive installations, Oleksijczuk reconstructs the relationships between specific paintings, their accompanying printed guides, and the collective experiences of different audiences. She argues that by transporting its spectators to increasingly distant locations, first in the city and country and then in the world beyond Britain's borders, the panorama created a spatial and temporal disjunction between "here" and "there" that helped to forge new national and social identities"--Provided by publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(42)"17"
Abolition & Emancipation: Part 1: Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library 1996. • MICROFILM • 10 copies available.
A management odyssey : the Royal Dockyards, 1714-1914 /J. M. Haas. "The Royal Dockyards were Britain's oldest state enterprise and biggest and most complex industrial unit. This book shows how the Admiralty over two centuries struggled to master the intractable problems of organization and management which the dockyards presented. Haas maintains that the dockyards portrayed an image of being inefficient, high-cost producers. These problems were chiefly extreme centralization but, paradoxically, weak control, inadequate coordination of departments, and accounting procedures, unreliable information about production, costs and material, an insufficiently educated and professionalized constructive corps, and an underpaid and slack workforce."--Provided by the publisher. 1994. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(42)"1714/1914"
Naval chronicle : contemporary record of the Royal Navy at war /ed. by Nicholas Tracy. 1999. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 05Naval Chronicle
Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture /Sudhir Hazareesingh. "The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France. Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous Constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date." --Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 970.980
Seapower ashore : 200 years of Royal Navy operations on land /ed. by Peter Hore. 2001. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.327"1799/1999"
From maps to metaphors : the Pacific world of George Vancouver /edited by Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston. c1993. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9:92VANCOUVER