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Far distant ships : the blockade of Brest 1793-1815 /Quintin Barry "Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. It was a strategy that had been perfected by Sir Edward Hawke during the Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763, when it culminated in the stunning victory of Quiberon Bay. The American naval historian A.T. Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: 'Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world.' There were many aspects to the blockade of Brest, but always at its centre was the need to frustrate French attempts at the invasion of Britain or Ireland. Most famous of these, of course, was Napoleon's intricate combination that led to the campaign of Trafalgar, in the course of which his invasion plans disintegrated. But there were many other offensive moves which it was the blockading fleet's duty to prevent. Inevitably, there were great sea battles when the French ventured out, though fewer than might have been expected. For many months at a time the British fleet was at sea off Brest facing the considerable dangers of wind and weather without encountering its adversary. There were many remarkable leaders who came to the fore during the long years of war; Howe, Bridport, St Vincent, Cornwallis and Keith were among those who led the Channel Fleet. Nelson described his captains as a 'band of brothers', but this was by no means a description that could be applied to the quarrelsome, self willed and argumentative group of men who held the destiny of the Royal Navy in their hands, whether at sea or around the boardroom table at the Admiralty. Drawing on the official and personal correspondence of those involved, this book traces the development of British naval strategy, as well as describing the crucial encounters between the rival fleets and the single ship actions which provided the press with a constant flow of news stories for its readers."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.463.3(42:44)"1793/1815"

Statement respecting the prevalence of certain immoral practices in His Majesty's navy : addressed to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 1821. • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 355.233.23:094

Star tables : number 1 for the year 1822 for more readily ascertaining the latitude and longitude at sea during the night ... Lynn, Thomas 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 524.3(083.4)

A catalogue of the library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain : including a complete list of all the Greek writers /by the late Rev. Charles Burney Burney, Charles, 1821. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.1(421)RI

"Fast sailing and copper-bottomed" : Aberdeen sailing ships and the emigrant Scots they carried to Canada, 1774-1855 /Lucille H. Campey. Campey, Lucille H. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(410.5:71)

A history of the B & I Line : including the City of Cork Steam Packet Co (1936) /by Ernest R. Reader. Covering early steamer services established between Dublin and London this is a history in two parts of two companies: the British and Irish Steam Packet Co. founded in 1836 and the City of Cork Steam Packet Co. (1936) Ltd. The British and Irish Steam Packet Co. subsequently grew through the acquisition of other steamship companies including the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1919), Dublin and Manchester Steamship Co. Ltd (1919), Tedcastle McCormick and Co. Ltd (1919), Dublin and Lancashire Shipping Co. Ltd (1922), Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Co. Ltd (1926), Dublin General Steam Shipping Company (1926) and M.J. Begg (1926). The City of Cork Steam Packet Co. (1936) evolved from its predecessor the St George Steam Packet Company founded in 1821, changing its name to the City of Cork Steamship Co. in 1843 and then to the City of Cork Steam Packet Co. in 1871. Suffering severe losses in the First World War, the company was acquired by Coast Lines Ltd and in 1936, with its trades taken over by B&I, the new company name of City of Cork Steam Packet Company (1936) Ltd was registered as agents for B&I. [1950] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 347.792B&I

Greenwich and its lost hospitals : havens of maritime welfare /Gordon C Cook "The Royal Hospital (RH) was built near the site of the Palace of Placentia and erected by King William III (1650?1702) as a memorial for his consort, Queen Mary II (1662-94) who died of smallpox. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and functioned until 1870 as a hospital for retired mariners of the Royal Navy. The Dreadnought Hospital was the 'flagship' of the Seamen's Hospital Society (SHS) between 1870 and its closure in 1986. The SHS was a charitable foundation launched in 1821 to care for members of Britain's Mercantile Marine and later others also. Having been accommodated on three successive hospital ships, it moved to dry land in Greenwich in 1870. Between 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1939, the SHS published a Quarterly Magazine from which extracts highlighting Greenwich and these two major hospitals are brought together in this book."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.292GREENWICH

Recueil d'observations gâeodâesiques, astronomiques et physiques : exâecutâees par ordre du Bureau des Longitudes de France, en Espagne, en France, en Angleterre et âEcosse : pour dâeterminer la variation de la pâesanteur et des degrâes terrestres sur le prolongement du mâeridien de Paris : faisant suite au troisiáeme volume de la Base du systáeme mâetrique /râedigâe par MM. Biot et Arago. Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1821. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Frames that speak : cartouches on early modern maps /by Chet Van Duzer. "This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests--so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 744.3/7

Tables astronomiques publiees par le bureau des longitudes de France, contenant les tables de Jupiter, de Saturne et d'Uranus, construites d'apres la theorie de la mechanique celeste Bouvard, M A 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52-17:094

The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle 1821 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1819/1820"

A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 and 1820 Fisher, Alexander 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 623.82Griper

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.

Decolonizing the map : cartography from colony to nation /edited by James R. Akerman. "Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward. Mapping their own land is fraught with a fresh set of issues: how to define and administer their territories, develop their national identity, establish their role in the community of nations, and more. The contributors to Decolonizing the Map explore this complicated relationship between mapping and decolonization while engaging with recent theoretical debates about the nature of decolonization itself. These essays, originally delivered as the 2010 Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, encompass more than two centuries and three continents - Latin America, Africa, and Asia ranging from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Contributors study topics from mapping and national identity in late colonial Mexico to the enduring complications created by the partition of British India and the racialized organization of space in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. A vital contribution to studies of both colonization and cartography, this is the first book to systematically and comprehensively examine the engagement of mapping in the long - and clearly unfinished - parallel processes of decolonization and nation building in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526

A new treatise on the use of the globes : or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens : comprehending an account of the figure, magnitude, and motion of the earth ; with the natural changes of its surface, caused by floods, earthquakes, &c. together with the principles of meteorology, and astronomy ; with the theory of the tides, &c. ; preceded by an extensive selection of astronomical, and other definitions, and illustrated by a great variety of problems, questions for the examination of the student, &c. &c. ; designed for the instruction of youth ... /by Thomas Keith. Keith, Thomas. 1821. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5.093:094

Food for the flames : idols and missionaries in central Polynesia /David Shaw King ; photography by Brian Carlson ; foreword by David Attenborough. In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 306.460996

The Polar sale : Scott & Amundsen centenary :Friday 30 March 2012 at 2 pm, Knightsbridge, London. Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

On the edge : mapping North America's coasts /Roger M. McCoy. McCoy, Roger M. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(7)

The British transatlantic slave trade A four-volume work covering the history of the British Transatlantic slave trade and including relevant texts in facsimile. VOLUME 1 focuses on the operation of the slave trade in Africa featuring John Hawkins, A true declaration of the troublesome voyadge of M. John Hawkins to the parties of Guynea and the west Indies, in the yeares of our Lord 1567 and 1568 (1569); John Matthews, A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone (1788); John Adams, Sketches taken during Ten Voyages to Africa, between the Years 1786 and 1800 (1821) and Gomer Williams, History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade (excerpt) (1897). VOLUME 2 features texts connected with the largest and most significant of the English slavetrading companies, the Royal African Company established in 1672. The reprinted texts highlight the changing fortunes of the company, the details of the charter under which it traded, the financial pressures of maintaining fortified establishments in west Africa, the rivalry with other African trading companies of European powers, the increasing presence of private merchants in the slave trade and the role of the company in maintaining British imperial and naval power. VOLUME 3 concentrates on the early days of the abolition movement in Britain, reprinting texts from the late 1780s. These include papers by Clarkson who toured Great Britain gathering data and evidence on the conduct of the slave trade, other contemporary observations of slave conditions, and Thomas Cooper's Letters on the Slave Trade which provide estimates of the volume of the slave traffic. VOLUME 4 reprints a representative sample of texts illustrating the defensive reasoning employed by pro-slavery campaigners based on mercantilism, imperialism, constitutionalism and even humanitarianism. The texts provide an insight into attitudes toward race, work and power in the colonies and Hanoverian Britain. Each volume is supported by a detailed bibliography. April 2003 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 326.1(261)

A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Bering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East Passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy Kotzebue, Otto von 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1815/1818"

Tales from the Captain's Log : from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin, Blackbeard and Nelson - accounts of great events at sea from those who were there "For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that they encountered. Entries range from Captain James Cook's notes of his discovery of the South Pacific and Australia, to logs of the great naval battles, such as Waterloo and Trafalgar. From the ships that attempted to stop piracy in the Caribbean, to the surgeons who recorded the health of the men they tended and naturalists who noted the exotic plants and animals they encountered, comes a fascinating picture of life at sea, richly illustrated with maps, drawings and facsimile documents found alongside the logs in the archives."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)

The diary of Joseph Farington / edited by Kenneth Garlick and Angus Macintyre "Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his membership in several clubs and societies, he touched the life of his time at many points. This diary, which he kept from 1793 until his death, provides a meticulous record of his actions and observations and is an invaluable source for the history of English art and artists. It also constitutes an absorbing record of this period's social, political, and literary developments."--Provided by the publisher. 1978-84 • BOOK • 17 copies available. 92FARINGTON, Joseph

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"

Sexual and gender difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 / edited by Seth Stein LeJacq. "This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called "the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery"- sex between males - in the Royal Navy."--Provided by publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.1094209033

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