Library Results | Royal Museums Greenwich

The Scoresbys : father and son Browne, H B 1947 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(98)"17/18"

The naval history of Great Britain from the year 1783 to 1822 Brenton, Edward Pelham 1823-1825 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1783/1822"(42)

A practical treatise on tropical dysentery ... Bampfield, R W 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.935(91)

Nelson's Pathfinders : a forgotten story in the triumph of British sea power /Michael Barritt. "During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British warships were lost to shipwreck than in battle. The Royal Navy's fleets had to operate in unfamiliar seas and dangerous coastal waters, where navigational ignorance was as great a threat as enemy guns. If Britain was to win the war, navigational intelligence was vital. In this landmark account, Michael Barritt reveals how a cadre of specialist pathfinders led by Captain Thomas Hurd enabled Britain's Hydrographic Office to meet this need. Sounding the depths on the front line of conflict, alert for breaks in weather or onset of swell, these daring sailors gathered vital strategic data that would eventually secure the upper hand against Britain's adversaries. Following the pathfinders across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Barritt shows how the honing of this skill set revolutionised the British way of war at sea - ultimately securing a lasting naval dominance." 2024 • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

An essay on the baneful influence of so frequently washing decks in His Majesty's ships on the health of British seamen ... Finlayson, Robert 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 699.874

Meditationes Algebraicae Waring, Edwardo 1782 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

The sea songs of England : selected from original manuscripts and early printed copies in the library of William Kitchiner Kitchiner, William (coll) 1823 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:784.4

A new and comprehensive system of modern geography, mathematical, physical, political, and commercial ... Myers, Thomas 1822 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914/919

Meditationes analyticae Waring, Edwardo 1785 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

Saggio di osservazioni sui mezzi atti a migliorare la costruzione e l'illuminazione dei fari Aldini, Giovanni 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715:094

Description d'une pendule a sphere mouvante / inventee par M. Raingo. Raingo, M. 1823. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.11

Narrative of a voyage to India, of a shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh, and a description of New South Wales Cramp, W B 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(54)"1815/1821"

Astronomische abhandlungen Schumacher, H C 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Memorial de Sainte Helene : journal of the private life and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena Las Cases, Marie Joseph Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonne de 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Napoleon

Memorials of Columbus : or a collection of authentic documents of that celebrated navigator ... preceded by a memoir of his live and discoveries Columbus, Christopher 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Columbus

A voyage in the South Seas in the years 1812, 1813 and 1814 with particular details of the Gallipagos and Washington Islands Porter, David 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(265/266)"1812/1814"

The history of Lyme Regis, Dorset : from the earliest periods to the present day Roberts, G 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.233

Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the years 1817 and 1818 Irby, Charles Leonard 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(62)"1817/1818"

Promotion or the bottom of the river : the blue and gray naval careers of Alexander F. Warley, South Carolinian /John M. Stickney. "South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime history. Warley's career began in the 1840s, when he served as a midshipman on Old Ironsides and later took part in the Mexican War. His military exploits reached their zenith when he commanded the CSS Manassas - the first ironclad ship to engage in combat - at New Orleans in October 1861. John M. Stickney's richly detailed biography of Warley as an officer first in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate navy offers a representative example of America's professional military class during the nineteenth century. An ambitious youth of little means, Warley secured an appointment as a midshipman at the age of seventeen through the influence of John C. Calhoun. Over the next two decades of maritime adventures, Warley faced four courts-martial, combat and capture in the Mexican War, and the challenges of rising in the ranks. After South Carolina seceded in December 1860, Warley joined the newly formed Confederate navy and gained recognition for his service at New Orleans, commanding the Manassas until the Confederate defeat there in 1862. Warley's career in the Confederate navy ended with his command of the CSS Albemarle and its destruction at Plymouth, North Carolina. With vivid details and rich narration, Stickney portrays one young man's struggle for glory and success in a divided nation. Using ships logs and naval records, Stickney unravels Warley's naval career and explores the Civil War naval actions that unfolded in New Orleans, Charleston, Galveston, Savannah, and Plymouth during this critical time in American history, revealing the pluck and fortitude of a previously unknown combatant."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WARLEY

The empire of necessity : slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World /Greg Grandin. One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception--that the men and women he thought were slaves were actually running the ship--he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, historian Greg Grandin explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event--an event that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece "Benito Cereno". Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Atlas of astronomy : comprising, in eighteen plates a complete series of illustrations of the heavenly bodies drawn with the greatest care, from original and authentic documents /by Alex. Keith Johnston ; edited by J.R. Hind Johnston, Alexander Keith 1855. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912:094

Official letters of the military and naval officers of the United States, during the war with Great Britain in the years 1812, 13, 14 and 15 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)

On the diurnal deviations of the horizontal needle when under the influence of magnets Christie, S. Hunter-(Samuel Hunter), 1823 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11

An essay on the baneful influence of so frequently washing decks in His Majesty's ships on the health of British seamen with observations on the prevention of dry rot in the Royal Navy Finlayson, Robert 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:613.68

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