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Collier brigs and their sailors Runciman, Walter Runciman,-Baron, 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Runciman

Before the mast - and after : the autobiography of a sailor and shipowner Runciman, Walter Runciman,-Baron, 1924 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

La destinee de Sir John Franklin devoilee : rapport du Capitaine MacClintock commandant du yacht Fox Malte-Brun, V A 1860 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.125Fox

The life of William Denny, ship-builder, Dumbarton.By Alexander Balmain Bruce. The biography of William Denny (1847-1887), born in Dumbarton, the eldest son of Peter Denny, partner in the ship building firm of William Denny and Brothers. Chapters focus on aspects of William Denny's life, including his birth and boyhood, apprenticeship, and admission to the firm as a partner. The author also explores Denny's views on industrial questions of the time, his work as a naval architect and his promotion and use of an experimental tank for testing vessel design. Denny worked on the load-line committee and was also known for his philanthropic work. Further chapters consider Denny's religious beliefs, politics, characteristics and family life. Denny was a director of a subsidiary company La Platense Flotilla, formed with the intention of carrying on a goods and passenger business on the River Plate and its tributaries. Denny visited South America to establish this business, but while there and during protracted negotiations with a competitor, he committed suicide. Much of the text consists of extracts from letters written by Denny to his family, friends and associates. 1889. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DENNY

Tables for the facilitating the approximate prediction of occultations and eclipses for any particular place Shadwell, Charles F.A. 1847 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck Hillary, William,-Sir, 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.236:094:627.772

Deadly winter : the life of Sir John Franklin Beardsley, Martyn 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"18"

Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 / Franklin, John. 1824. Franklin, John,-Sir, 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(712.2)"1819/1822"

Alberta report : the weekly news magazine ; 1984. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(98)"1845"

A tale of ambition and unrealised hope : John Montagu and Sir John Franklin /Craig R. Joel. Joel, Craig R. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 994.6"18"

The naval ascendency of Britain / by William Hillary. A plea for greater investment in the Royal Navy to maintain and extend its international dominance. 1838. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 355.49"1838"(42)

Arctic exploration in the nineteenth century : discovering the Northwest Passage /edited by Frâedâeric Regard. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"18"

Frozen in time : the fate of the Franklin Expedition /Owen Beattie and John Geiger Beattie, Owen 1987. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Braine

Sir Walter Ralegh : the British dominion of the west /Martin A.S. Hume. Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1926. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92RALEIGH

Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage Markham, Albert Hastings,-Sir, 1889? • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(987)"1819/1848"

A brave man and his belongings : being some passages in the life of Sir John Franklin, RN Jupp, Eliza M 1874 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1819/1848"

The way of the ship : sailors, shanties and shantymen /by Richard Runciman Terry; foreword by Sir Walter Runciman. Terry, Richard Runciman,-Sir, c2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 784.4

Sir John Franklin : the search for the Northwest Passage /Anders Knudsen. Knudsen, Anders. c2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)

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

Notice biographique sur l'Amiral Sir John Franklin La Roquette, Bernard Marie Alexandre Dezos de 1856? • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92Franklin, John

Sir John Ross's last expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin Wilson, Malcolm M 1973 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Ships of war : the development of warships by navies of the worls during the later 19th century /Edward J. Reed, Edward Simpson & J. D. Jerrold Kelley. Reed, Edward J.-(Edward James),-Sir, 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(100)"18"

On the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination at St Helena Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1847 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

Polaris : the chief scientist's recollections of the American North Pole expedition, 1871-73 /Emil Bessels ; translated from the German: Die amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1879), by William Barr. "Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran afoul of arctic ice, leaving some of its crew stranded on an ice floe. Bessels and the others spent a second winter on shore in Northwest Greenland, where the drifting, disabled ship ran aground. Hall died suspiciously during the first winter, and Bessels is widely suspected of having poisoned him. Bill Barr has uncovered new evidence of a possible motive. Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North pole Expedition, 1871-73 includes considerable detail which does not appear elsewhere. It is the only account of the expedition which includes rich scientific information about anthropology, geology, flora and fauna. It provides much more information than other accounts on the Greenland settlements Polaris visited on her way north. Bessels' is the only published first-hand account of the second wintering of part of the ship's complement on shore at Polaris House, near Littleton Island, and of that party's attempt at travelling south by boat until picked up by the Scottish whaler Ravenscraig. The same applies to the cruise aboard the whaler, Arctic, after Bessels and his companions transferred to that ship."--Provided by publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(98)"1871/1873"

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