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The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:92Nelson(093.2)
The universal code of signals for the mercantile marine of all nations ... / Marryat, Frederick. 1858. Marryat, Frederick, 1858 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 627.724(100)"1858"
Frank Mildmay : or the naval officer Marryat, Frederick, 1896 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3
Discoverers of the universe : William and Caroline Herschel /Michael Hoskin. This biography traces William and Caroline Herschel's many extraordinary contributions to astronomy, shedding new light on their productive but complicated relationship, and setting their scientific achievements in the context of their personal struggles, larger-than-life ambitions, bitter disappointments, and astonishing triumphs.--Book jacket. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL
Le Musâee de Marine du Louvre : histoire, description. construction, representation, statistique des navires a rames & a voiles d'aprâes des modáeles et les dessins des galeries du Musâee du Louvre /Edmond Paris. Pãaris, Edmond, 1883. • OVERSIZE • 2 copies available. 629.123.1
The winter queen : Elizabeth of Bohemia /Carola Oman. "The extraordinary story of Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662), the 'Winter Queen'. Daughter of James VI of Scotland (James I of England) and Anne of Denmark, she married Frederick V, Elector of Palatine. Her husband's acceptance of the throne of Bohemia in 1619 precipitated the Thirty Years War. Both Bohemia and Palatine were lost and the royal family fled to Holland where they lived in extreme poverty, dogged by misfortune." "Throughout this period, by sheer force of her personality, beauty and courage, Elizabeth maintained her role at the centre of her court-in-exile. She lived long enough to see her son Charles Louis restored to the electorate. Her daughter Sophia was the mother of George I of England. This beautifully written biography also paints pictures of late Shakespearean England in which she spent her youth and of the Restoration England to which she returned in old age."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
A code of signals for the use of vessels employed in the merchant service / Marryat, Frederick. 1851. Marryat, Frederick, 1851 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 627.724(100)"1851"
A code of signals for the use of vessels employed in the merchant service ... / Marryat, Frederick. 1837. Marryat, Frederick, 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:627.724(100)"1837"
A code of signals for the use of vessels employed in the merchant service / Marryat, Frederick. 1847. Marryat, Frederick, 1847 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:627.724(100)"1847"
The Pacha of many tales / Marryat, Frederick. 1835. Marryat, Frederick, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-3
The Naval officer / Marryat, Frederick. 1834. Marryat, Frederick, 1834 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-3
Rattlin, the reefer / Howard, Edward. 1836. Howard, Edward 1836 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-3
Peter Simple / Marryat, Frederick. 1834. Marryat, Frederick, 1834 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-3
Admiral Togo : Nelson of the East /Jonathan Clements. Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal Japan that had shut out foreign contact for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral," he was at the forefront of innovations in warfare, pioneering the Japanese use of modern gunnery and wireless communication. Togo is best known as the "Nelson of the East" for his resounding victory over the tsar's navy in the Russo-Japanese War, but he also lived a remarkable life, studying at a British maritime college and witnessing the Sino-French War, the Hawaiian Revolution, and the Boxer Uprising. After his retirement, he was appointed to oversee the education of Emperor Hirohito. This new biography spans Japan's sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the twentieth century. Delving beyond Togo's finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a shy Japanese sailor in Victorian England; his reluctant celebrity in America; his role in forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa; and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero. -- from Back Cover. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92TOGO
The Aberdeen Line : George Thompson Jnr's Incomparable Shipping Enterprise /Peter H. King A history of the Aberdeen Line founded in 1825 by George Thompson Jnr. The business developed rapidly from its initial operations in the North Atlantic, Baltic and UK coastal trade routes to provide services to South America and Australia by the mid-1840s. The line is famous for its fast clipper Thermopylae, rival to the Cutty Sark, launched in 1848 and its first steamship, SS Aberdeen, launched in 1881. Facing fierce competition on its Australian routes, the company was restructured with the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (White Star Line) and Shaw Savill and Albion taking effective control in 1906 and fully acquiring the company in 1920. The Aberdeen name survived later takeovers first by the Royal Mail Group and then Furness Withy, continuing as the renamed Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line following the acquisition of the Australian Commonwealth Line. However, when the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line ceased trading in 1957 the name disappeared. Appendices include a corporate chronology, family trees of the Thompson and Henderson families involved in the Aberdeen Line, and a fleet list of vessels owned or managed by the company. The book is illustrated throughout. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792ABERDEEN
The Georgian star : how William and Caroline Herschel revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos /Michael D. Lemonick. A tribute to the scientific contributions of Uranus planet discoverer William Herschel and his pioneering sister, Caroline, describes their establishment of surveying techniques that are still in use today, Caroline's cataloguing of nebulae, and William's discovery of infrared radiation. c2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.8(091)"17/18"
Tracing the connected narrative : Arctic exploration in British print culture, 1818-1860 /Janice Cavell. Cavell, Janice. c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(98):676.22"1818/1860"
Dr John Rae A biography of John Rae (1813-1893). Born in Orkney, Rae qualified as a surgeon working for the Hudson's Bay Company in Ontario, Canada. He developed a reputation for stamina and his use of snowshoes, learning to live off the land while travelling long distances, adopting and learning the ways of indigenous Arctic peoples. Rae went on to explore the Gulf of Boothia and made three voyages along the Arctic coastline from 1848-1851. In 1854, back in the Gulf of Boothia, he obtained credible information from local Inuit peoples about the fate of the Franklin Expedition which had disappeared in 1848. His report to the Admiralty included evidence that cannibalism had been a last resort for some of the survivors. Franklin's widow Lady Jane Franklin was outraged and recruited many important supporters, including Charles Dickens, to condemn Rae for daring to suggest Royal Navy sailors would have resorted to cannibalism. Rae's reputation was ruined and although he had discovered the final link in the North-West passage, he was shunned by the establishment at the time and his achievements never recognised. The text is supported by photographs, detailed notes and a bibliography. 1985 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"18"
The navy and the nation : or naval warfare and imperial defence Sydenham of Combe, George Sydenham Clarke,-Baron, 1897 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.461
The pirate, and The three cutters / By Captain Marryat, ... Illustrated with twenty splendid engravings from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, .. Marryat, Frederick, 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3
A code of signals, intended as auxiliary to Marryat's, for the use of the H C Bengal pilot service / compiled by Arthur Bedford. Marryat, Frederick, 1845. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:627.724(541.2)"1845"
A statement of the means by which the Nelson coat, presented by HRH Prince Albert to Greenwich Hospital, was obtained by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas ... Evans, T A 1846 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:92Nelson(093.5)
A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions / by Capt. Marryat, C.B. Marryat, Frederick, 1839. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 917