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An extract from a journal kept on board HMS Bellerophon, Captain F L Maitland Bowerbank, John,-Lt [1815] • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 623.82BELLEROPHON(093.3):094
The new British Channel pilot ... Heather, William 1815 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(261/262)
Traite elementaire de la mature des vaisseaux, a l'usage des eleves de la marine Willaumez, E 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.21
Report of the Commissioners upon the subject of harbours of refuge Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.2(42)
Trattato elementare dell'alberatura delle navi Forfait, Pierre Alexandre Laurent 1979 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.21
Admiral Lord Keith and the naval war against Napoleon / Kevin D. McCranie ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. "Lord Keith, a Scottish Admiral who rose to prominence serving His Majesty from 1761 to 1815, ended his career by overseeing Napoleon's surrender in 1815. Born George Keith Elphinstone, Keith at one time or another held nearly every important command in the British navy, and his story illustrates the navy's history during the Age of Fighting Sail. [...] Keith eventually commanded four major fleets - the Eastern Seas, the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Channel. Though he never led a fleet into battle, Keith supported joint operations with the British army and its allies while simultaneously maintaining command of the sea and ensuring the free passage of commerce. [...] Documents Keith's dealings with the British government, the Royal Family, the Admiralty, the French government, the French navy, the British army and Britain's allies."--Provided by the Publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)
Fast sailing ships : their design and construction, 1775-1875 /David R MacGregor MacGregor, David R.-(David Roy) 1988 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.13
An inquiry into the present state of the British Navy : with reflections on the late war with America Englishman, An 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.6(42)"18"
Wealth and honour : Winslow, Richard E 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.227
The sailor boy : a poem in four cantos : illustrative of the navy of Great Britain Ireland, Samuel William Henry 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1
The naval monitor : containing many useful hints for both the public and the private conduct of young gentlemen in, or entering, that profession ... Officer in the Navy 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.133.4(42)"18"
A modern atlas from the latest and best authorities, exhibiting the various divisions of the world, with its chief empires, kingdoms, and states, in sixty maps Pinkerton, John 1815 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"18"
The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen... Woodard, David 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-992
The sailing frigate : a history in ship models /Robert Gardiner ; illustrated from the collections of the National Maritime Museum. "Ship models offer more details than even the best plans and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the evolution of the cruising ships under sail."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 086.5:629.123.1
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"
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"
Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution /James Epstein. "In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(729)"18"
The universal marine dictionary, Spanish and English / by Johann Hinrich Roding. Roding, Johann Hinrich 1815. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 656.61Spanish:800.866
The collection of autograph letters and historical documents ? formed by Alfred Morrison. Morrison, Alfred. 1894. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92NELSON(093.32)
Lives of the British admirals : containing an accurate naval history from the earliest periods Campbell, John,-Dr 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.33(42):094:92
New universal dictionary of the marine / compiled by William Falconer ; modernized and enlarged by William Burney. Falconer, William, 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61English:800.866
The British Navy in the Mediterranean / John D. Grainger "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the Crusades, and to the seventeenth century, when the Barbary corsairs became a major problem. It outlines Britain's involvement in the wars of the long eighteenth century, when Britain obtained bases at Gibraltar, Minorca and Malta and repeatedly defeated the French and Spanish navies. It examines the navy's activities during the First and Second World Wars, when the Mediterranean was again of crucial strategic significance and a major theatre of war, and goes on to consider Britain's withdrawal from the Mediterranean in the later twentieth century. Throughout, the book relates naval activity to patterns of trade, including the rise and decline of the Levant Company, and to wider international politics."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42:262)
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)
The rockets' red glare : an illustrated history of the War of 1812 /Donald R. Hickey and Connie D. Clark. This illustrated history invites readers to travel back in time and imagine what it would have been like to live through the War of 1812, America's forgotten conflict. The book recounts the war's main battles and campaigns, from William Hull's ignominious surrender at Detroit in 1812 to Andrew Jackson's spectacular victory at New Orleans in 1815. It describes Oliver H. Perry's remarkable victory on Lake Erie and the ensuing death of the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh. It chronicles the devastation on the Niagara Front as the balance of power shifted back and forth. It follows Thomas Macdonough as he executes a masterstroke on Lake Champlain, winning a great naval battle and saving upper New York from occupation. Also included are the demoralizing British raids in the Chesapeake that culminated in the burning of Washington, D.C., and the successful defense of Baltimore that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen "The Star-Spangled Banner." This book recaptures in detail not only the military history of the war but also its domestic and diplomatic history. The authors show why the fragile young republic, which was still a second-rate power, declared war against Great Britain, an established global power. They also explain why Americans remember the conflict as an unalloyed success, even though by the war's end, the United States faced military uncertainty, financial stress, a punishing British naval blockade, and the intractable opposition of Federalists in New England. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)