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Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 Scoresby, William, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

Australia circumnavigated : the voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 /edited by Kenneth Morgan. 'This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia's flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and 'remarks' on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings and Flinders's surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The 'Memoir' explains Flinders' methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.'--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

Our sailors : or anecdotes of the engagements and gallant deeds of the British navy during the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1865 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"18"(42)

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

History of Alexander's expedition ... Arrian 1814 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4:938.07

Recherches sur le spectre solaire / par A.-J. êAngstrèom. Spectre normal du soleil : atlas de six planches. êAngstrèom, A.-J.-(Anders Jonas), 1868 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 535.37:094

[Atlas of Australia] Flinders, Matthew 1814 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:94)"18"

Der Kapitèan und der Kèunstler : die Erforschung der Terra Australis /Rudi Palla. Palla, Rudi, 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 759.36

Matthew Flinders, maritime explorer of Australia / Kenneth Morgan. A detailed biography of Matthew Flinders (1774-1814). Flinders was the first naval commander to complete a detailed circumnavigation of Australia while in command of the Investigator, a voyage supported and promoted by Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Earlier in his career, Flinders developed his navigational skills as a midshipman on Captain William Bligh's voyage on the Providence and while in command of the Norfolk, he and George Bass circumnavigated Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land) for the first time. This text sets his achievements in the wider context of Cook's discoveries and Pacific exploration and focuses on the nautical, geographic and other scientific work undertaken during the voyage by Flinders and the 'scientific gentlemen', who accompanied him. Flinders discovered and recorded many offshore islands around the Australian coast, found a navigable route through the Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef and undertook the first thorough survey of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Returning to England, he was held hostage at the Ile de France (Mauritius) for six years delaying the publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis and his atlas of maps until 1810. Flinders is credited with popularising the use of the term Australia and is commemorated throughout the country. The book has detailed notes and bibliography. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FLINDERS

The history of the pirates ... Johnson, Charles, 1814 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1

The complete West India and Caracas shore pilot Norie, John William 1814 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(263)"18"

The London edition of Barclay's universal English dictionary ... 1814 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 030.8English:094

Carey's American pocket atlas Carey, Mathew 1814 • ATLAS-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(73)"18"

Royal Navy frigate commanders 1793-1815 : data files /Tom Wareham CD-ROM containing three files: 1. All Captains. 2. Frigate dispositions in date order. 3. The frigate command and disposition data files. All Captains is an alphabetical listing by surname of "all officers recorded as having command of a frigate between 1793-1814" and includes the frigates commanded with approximate dates, the dates of the officers' promotions and to which rank, and the dates of death of the officers. Frigate dispositions is a table containing "a list of frigates available to the Royal Navy" in 1793-1814, their captains and where stationed. The frigate command and disposition data files sets out the contents, sources and limitations of the data, the purpose for which it was compiled, and abbreviations used.--Quotations are provided by the author. [2020] • CD-ROM • 1 copy available.

An improved system of telegraphic communication Lynn, Thomas 1814 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:627.724(42)"1814"

A dissertation on gun-shot wounds Bell, Charles 1814 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616-001.4

Memoir respecting a new theory of numbers Broughton, Charles 1814 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 511:094

Jane Austen's transatlantic sister : the life and letters of Fanny Palmer Austen /Sheila Johnson Kindred. "In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister, Fanny's articulate and informative letters - transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context - disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how far she was an inspiration for Austen's literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny's story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women's roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny's life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction, as well as for those interested in biography, women's letters, and history of the family."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92AUSTEN

Matthew Flinders : the man behind the map /Gillian Dooley. "Born at the end of the Age of Enlightenment and growing up as Romanticism took hold of European culture, Matthew Flinders was the embodiment of these seemingly irreconcilable movements. His achievements as a navigator and leader are impressive, but he was much more than an action hero, idolised by generations of admirers. In Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map Gillian Dooley looks to the primary sources to discover Flinders as a friend; a son, a brother, a father and a husband; as a writer, a researcher, a reader, and a musician - and above all as a romantic scientist." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.404/2092

The Navy list. Great Britain.-Admiralty. • JOURNAL • 2 copies available.

A Catalogue of the elegant household furniture ... the property of a lady of distinction ... [1814]. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Hamilton, Emma

Reasons for imposing a duty on India built shipping Great Britain. Sessions 1814 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:656.61(54):336.2

Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 / William S. Dudley. "When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812? When the British blockade of 1813?14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.5/25

George Charles Smith of Penzance : from Nelson sailor to mission pioneer /Roald Kverndal. "In the two previous books of his trilogy, Seamen's missions (1986) and The way of the sea (2008), the author researched how the seafarers' mission movement began and expanded. This third volume traces the captivating human drama surrounding the origins. It presents, for the first time ever, the embattled life of George Charles Smith---today recognized worldwide as the founder of the Maritime Mission Movement."--From back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SMITH, GEORGE

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