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Narrative of discovery and adventure in the Polar Seas and regions : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery /by Professor Leslie, Professor Jameson, and Hugh Murray. Leslie, John. 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(98)

Observationes astronomicas : institutas in specula Universitatis caesareae Dorpatensis, publici juris facit Senatus Universitatis /F.G.W. Struve. Struve, F. G. W.-(Friedrich Georg Wilhelm), 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1825/1826"

A new and universal dictionary of the marine Falconer, William, 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61English:800.866

The analytical theory of heat : by Joseph Fourier. Translated, with notes /by Alexander Freeman, M.A., fellow of St John's College, Cambridge Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1878 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 536.1:094

Letters and papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red squadron 1758-1813 Middleton, Charles 1907-1911 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92Middleton

The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 /C.I. Hamilton. "This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found not so much in the hands of the Board but at first largely in the hands of individuals, then groups or committees, and finally certain permanent bureaucracies. The latter bodies, such as the Naval Staff, were crucial to the development of policy-making as was the civil service Secretariat under the Permanent Secretary. By the 1920s the Admiralty had become not just a proper policy-making organisation, but for the first time a thoroughly civil-military one"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42)"18/19"

East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

Memoirs of hydrography including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in the H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885. compiled by L. S. Dawson. Dawson, L. S. 1885. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:528.47

The Nelson memorial : Nelson and his companions in arms Laughton, John Knox, 1896 • FOLIO • 6 copies available. 92Nelson

Lords of the sea : a history of the Barbary corsairs /Alan G. Jamieson. "Escalating piracy in the seas off Somalia has led commentators to designate the region the 'new Barbary'. But the seizures and killings made to date by Somali pirates cannot compare with the three centuries of terror unleashed on Europeans by corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, murderous Muslim pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast seized and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea gives us the full history of these pirates, first examining their dramatic impact as the violent seaborne vanguard of an expanding Ottoman empire in the early 1500s through to their break from Ottoman authority a century later. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other fortified coastal ports rose to the apogee of their powers, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, raiding as far as the British Isles and Iceland. Rescuing captive Christians touched everyone in a Western state, from ambassadors obliged to negotiate to rural communities directed by Sunday sermons to contribute to the fund required to buy back their enslaved countrymen and women. While corsair activities declined in the 18th century, it was only a series of naval wars prosecuted into the early years of the 19th by various European states as well as a determined USA that finally ended the menace, culminating in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to nautical military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of piracy, enslavement and the rise of the great powers."--Provided by the publisher 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"14/18"

Atlantic piracy in the early nineteenth century : the shocking story of the pirates and the survivors of the Morning Star /Sarah Craze. "The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship back to Britain. This book, based on extensive original research in Britain, Spain and Brazil, retells the story of the Morning Star, provides much new detail and corrects errors present in the many contemporary accounts of the attack. It sets the attack in the wider context of piracy in the period, and discusses many issues which the episode highlights: how pirates' careers began and developed; how they were pursued and tried, often with difficulty; what became of their treasure; how stories of the attack and of the survivors were sensationalised; how the women passengers on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 364.16/4

Arctic pilot. sailing directions for west coast of Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, Hudson Strait and Bay, Smith Sound and channels to Polar Sea, Lancaster and Melville Sounds, and passages among the Parley Islands, /compiled by Admiral J.P. Maclear. Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. 1905. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

A New voyage round the world in the years 1823-1826 Kotzebue, Otto von 1967 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(100)"1823/1826"

The psalter, or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; with the order for morning and evening prayer daily throughout the year Church of England 1833 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-1

Versuche èuber die Kraft mit welcher die Erde Kèorper von verschiedener Beschaffenheit anzieht / von F.W. Bessel. Bessel, F. W.-(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514:094

The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain /[introduction by John Pinfold]. Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow (1765-1829), originally published in 1830 after his death. Crow was involved in the slave trade for seventeen years, making thirteen transatlantic voyages on slave-trading vessels, the last seven of these as master. Crow's Memoirs were written during his retirement but unlike other slave-trade captains he continued to justify his position and defend the trade after abolition. Crow remained convinced that the slave trade was a legitimate form of commerce and even that enslaved people were treated better and had a better life on the plantations than in Africa, both arguments being used by other supporters of the trade at the time. The Memoirs also provide an account of the conditions and practicalities of life at sea on board a slave-trading ship. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROW

Narrative of the naval operations in Ava, during the Burmese war, in the years 1824, 1825, and 1826 Marshall, John 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1824/1826"(591)

An account of the manuscript of an arc of the meridian between the parallels of 18degree3min and 24deg7min being a continuation of the grand meridian arc of India as detailed by the late lieut-col Lambton in the volumes of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta Everest, George : 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.09:094

Francais et Anglais en Mediterranee de la Revolution francaise a l'independance de la Grece (1789-1830 Lyon, David, 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)

Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory, in search of a North-West Passage ... Braithwaite, John 1835 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Victory

The cabinet cyclopaedia : Geography : the history of maritime and inland discovery /onducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ; assisted by eminent literary and scientific men. 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.

The life and times of the steam packet / John Shepherd. A historical account of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, recording events from its formation in 1830 to the introduction of SeaCat services in 1994. The company suffered severe financial difficulties in the 1980s and merged with Sealink in 1985. The book is written in a year-by-year diary format. The book includes a fleet list, extensive black and white and colour photographs, and an index of ships' names. 1994. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792ISLE OF MAN

Observationes astronomicae : in specula universitatis li'tterariae fennicae factae Argelander, Fr.-(Friedrich), 1830-2 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

The naval miscellany 1902-1952 • BOOK • 9 copies available. 355.49

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