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Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars : Cape St. Vincent, the Nile, Cadiz, Copenhagen, Trafalgar & others /W.H. Fitchett. "The wars against Napoleonic France and Spain in the early years of the nineteenth century have long fascinated historians and casual readers who are enchanted by the colour and romance of those incredible times. No aspect of the period has generated more interest and enthusiasm than the war at sea-fought between great naval commanders whose names from reverberated through time and who stood upon the decks of equally famous ships of the line in heroic battles. Here are the true life events that so inspired C. S. Forrester-and those who later followed his tradition of naval adventures to appeal to a new and enthusiastic audience. However, nothing in fiction is more remarkable than the actual events related in this book. Here are the true stories of the Victory, the Temeraire, the Orient and many other iconic vessels, and their famous and inspiring feats of naval warfare at Copenhagen, the Nile, Cadiz, Trafalgar and many other battles that helped shape the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1803/1815"(42)
Il leone ferito : Venezia, l'Adriatico e la navigazione sussidiata per le Indie e l'Estremo Oriente (1866-1914) /Andrea Cafarelli. Cafarelli, Andrea, 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 38(450.341)
Coal, steam and ships : engineering, enterprise and empire on the nineteenth-century seas /Crosbie Smith. "Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or lost public confidence in the process. Controlling recalcitrant elements within and around steamship systems, however, presented constant challenges to company managers as they attempted to build trust and confidence. Managers thus wrestled to control shipbuilding and marine engine-making, coal consumption, quality and supply, shipboard discipline, religious readings, relations with the Admiralty and government, anxious proprietors, and the media - especially following a disaster or accident. Emphasizing interconnections between maritime history, the history of engineering and Victorian thought, Smith's innovative history of early ocean steamships reveals the fraught uncertainties of Victorian life on the seas."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2
The victory of seapower : winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814 /Richard Woodman "The victory at Trafalgar marked the beginning of nine years of expansion and domination by the Royal Navy right across the globe. This book charts the events of those years, including the Battle of San Domingo in 1806, the attack on Copenhagen in 1807 and the capture of the French base on Mauritius in 1810. Also covered is the Navy's crucial support of Wellington's army in the Peninsula War. Thematic sections of the book feature the skills of the seaman and the lives of prisoners of war. The prints and drawings collection of the National Maritime Museum is the source for the 300 contemporary illustrations."--Provided by the publisher. 1998 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.49"1806/1814"(42:44)
Springboard to victory : Great Yarmouth and the Royal Navy's dominance in the North Sea and the Baltic during the French Wars 1793-1815 /David Higgins. "Great Yarmouth is best known for being a seaside resort and for its former status as the country's leading herring fishing port, but what has largely been forgotten is that during the French Revolutionary War (1793-1802) and the two Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) it was the main support base for naval and military operations in the North Sea and the Baltic. It was not until I researched a book called The Beachmen that I became aware of this dramatic period in the history of the town and the nation and I was surprised to find that nothing substantial had been written on the subject. Of course, a great many books had been produced on the navy's involvement in these wars, but most concentrated on the high drama of the six major fleet actions and the exploits of Horatio Nelson rather than the equally important, but more mundane, means by which the navy's warships were kept at sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The Royal Navy in action : art from Dreadnought to Vengeance /John Fairley. "At the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the British Empire encompassing the globe, the Royal Navy indisputably ruled the waves. Times change but the magnificence and drama of warships at sea, whether in peace or war, remain an inspiration to artists. This fine book brings together a collection of superb art works which bear witness to the majesty of these mighty ships in action and, at the same time, are a memorial to the dangers, heroism and victories at sea. The reader is treated to a feast of the finest maritime paintings depicting the Royal Navy's dramatic confrontations of the last 120 years. Masters such as Norman Wilkinson, Richard Eurich and William Wyllie cover the two World Wars. Other works illustrate the crucial role of the Navy in the Falklands War and the latest aircraft carriers are also represented. The author draws on his own naval service experience to describe the background to, and significance of, the ships and conflicts that these paintings so vividly record."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 758.99
Bonaparte & brimstone : a life of mixed fortunes in the Royal Navy and merchant service /Simon Francis Brown. "Napoleon Bonaparte?s defeat in 1815 came at an inconvenient time for John Monk, an ambitious young naval officer. Forced to rethink his plans, John turned to the merchant service, where he encountered storms, shipwreck and even piracy as he traded between Liverpool and the Mediterranean through the 1830s and 1840s. Bonaparte & Brimstone is the fascinating and engaging biography of a little-known Georgian naval lieutenant and mariner from Parkgate on the Wirral and brings him unforgettably to life. Vibrantly written, it is the beguiling story of one man?s hopes and fortunes, and is ultimately an emotional tale of family and belonging, enriched with abundant personal documents, among them the remarkable diary of a stormy voyage to Italy in 1824. John Monk saw ten years? service across the seas of Europe and survived the horrific bloodshed on HMS Impregnable during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816, but he grew dismayed at his lack of progress and battled the Admiralty just as he had once battled the French. Bonaparte & Brimstone paints a portrait in miniature of British society in the nineteenth century and of the country?s seafarers who attempted to navigate a path through it."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
US Navy armored cruisers 1890-1933 / Brian Lane Herder ; illustrated by Paul Wright. "At the dawn of the "Steel Navy" era, the rapidly expanding US Navy's fleet of capital ships consisted not only of battleships but also armored cruisers. The forerunner of the battlecruiser, these warships sacrificed the battleship's firepower and protection for superior speed and range, but were controversial. An armoured cruiser was as large and expensive as a battleship, but were not able to fight one. In this book, naval expert Brian Lane Herder explains that despite their great expense, armoured cruisers' tactical roles beyond commerce raiding and protection were limited. However, they had interesting careers: armoured cruisers fought in the Spanish-American War, and after 1906, some replaced US battleships in the Pacific, functioning as oversized gunboats. Two conducted naval aviation experiments, and after World War I, surviving US armoured cruisers represented the US Navy on the Asiatic station. Illustrated throughout with archive photographs and striking orginal artwork, this is a concisely detailed history of some of the US Navy's most controversial and intriguing warships."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.8353097309045
A great and rising nation : naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic /Michael A. Verney. "Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael A. Verney's A Great and Rising Nation flips this notion on its head, arguing that early US naval expeditions, often characterized as merely scientific, were in fact deeply imperialist. Circling the globe from the Mediterranean to South America and the Arctic, these voyages reflected the diverse imperial aspirations of the new republic, including commercial dominance in the Pacific World, religious empire in the Holy Land, proslavery expansion in South America, and diplomatic prestige in Europe. As Verney makes clear, the United States had global imperial aspirations far earlier than is commonly thought."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00973
British warships in the age of sail, 1793-1817 : design, construction, careers and fates /Rif Winfield. Winfield, Rif. 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1793/1817"
Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty : paper navigators /Erika Behrisch. "This book examines the British Admiralty's engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiralty's engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiralty's private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century." 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941
Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /by Siegfried Huigen. Huigen, Siegfried 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(83)"17"
The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage /John Harris. "Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867." 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.7/103
Lame captains and left-handed admirals : amputee officers in Nelson's Navy /Teresa Michals. Michals, Teresa, 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2/745092241
Description of an engine for dividing mathematical instruments / by J. Ramsden. Ramsden, J.-(Jesse), 1777 printing (London : printed by William Richardson). • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 681.09:094
Copies of original letters from the army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, intercepted by the fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson : with an English translation : in three parts France.-Armâee 1798-1800 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.48"1798"(62)
Logarithms of sines and tangents for every second, by Robert Shortrede, F.R.A.S., Major-General, Late of Bombay army, H.E.I.C.S. ; with additional preface, and examples, by Major-General Hannyngton, F.I.A. & F.S.S. Shortrede, Robert, 1873. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662(083.5):094
A cultural history of the sea in the age of empire / edited by Margaret Cohen. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.6
A cultural history of the sea in the age of enlightenment / edited by Jonathan Lamb. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.5
A cultural history of the sea in antiquity / edited by Marie-Claire Beaulieu. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.3
A cultural history of the sea in the medieval age / edited by Elizabeth Lambourn. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.4
Wetherell of H.M.S. Hussar : the recollections of an ordinary seaman of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars /John Wetherell "A true account of the British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a book which will delight the many enthusiastic readers of accounts both true and fictional of the Royal Navy in the great days of sail - the days of Nelson and other great captains who fought the navy of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. This is the story of a very ordinary seamen - extraordinarily written by his own hand - who was pressed from the merchant trade into a fighting ship of the Royal Navy - HMS Hussar. Captained by a tyrant - even by the standards of the day - this is an account of hardship, cruel punishment, battle action before the mast and ultimately shipwreck. The crew of the Hussar are eventually taken as prisoners of war by the French and there follows a further harrowing account of endurance which only ends as the crew meet the advancing British Army in the South of France in the days leading to the abdication of the Emperor."--Provided by the publisher. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WETHERELL
Britain's working coast in Victorian and Edwardian times / John Hannavy. "The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, isolation, entertainment, and the venue for most people's holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry - shipbuilding and fishing, plus the numerous trades associated with dockyards, coastal transport and the leisure industry. This companion to the English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times travels around Britain's coast - clockwise from London - looking at the industries that could be found in many of the cities and towns en route. Illustrated with an amazing collection of coloured postcards and other early photographs, the working coast of Britain is brought to life in all its bustling detail. From the naval dockyards of Chatham to the fishermen of Wick, the book opens a window onto a British coast which is now largely lost."--Back cover 2008 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.618.2(42)
Pastimes and pleasures in the time of Jane Austen / Sarah Jane Downing. "Just as the fashions of Jane Austen's era define it as a unique moment in history, so do the pleasures and pastimes. Each occasion and activity brought the pleasure of choosing a new outfit, and the choice on offer to young men and women was, at the time, unparalleled. Showcasing the styles and fashion of the period, Sarah Jane Downing touches on a variety of themes including pleasure destinations such as parks and zoos, cultural activities such as the theatre, romantic pastimes such as dances held in spectacular settings, and many more. We are familiar with many of the most popular places and activities from Jane Austen's novels, but this book will put them into broader historical context, complimenting them with an abundance of contemporary fashion plates and images."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.481209034