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An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of wrecks and casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom from the 1st January to the 31st December 1856 Great Britain. Parliament 1857 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085(42)

An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom from the 1st January to the 31st December 1857 Great Britain. Parliament 1858 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085(42)

The log of a merchant officer, viewed with reference to the education of young officers and the youth of the merchant service Methven, Robert 1854 • OVERSIZE • 2 copies available. 331:656.61

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"

Tables for facilitating the determination of the latitude and time at sea by observations of the stars Shadwell, Charles F A, Sir 1854 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 524.3(083.5)

The navy as it is : or the memoirs of a midshipman Broadhead, Augustus 1854 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.124

The universal code of signals for the mercantile marine of all nations ... Marryat, Frederick, 1854 • • 3 copies available. 627.724(100)"1854"

A treatise on masting ships and mast making Fincham, John, 1854 • RARE-OVER • 3 copies available. 094:629.12.014.21

Iron shipbuilding on the Thames 1812-1915 : an economic and business history /A J Arnold Arnold, A J 2000 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.12-034.1(282.242.4)"1832/1915"

Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated MSS, &c. &c. /Gustav Friedrich Waagen. Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1854. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 7.047(42)

A series of eight sketches in colour of the voyage of the H.M.S. Investigator (Captain M'Clure) during the discovery of the North-West Passage : together with a chart of the voyage / by Lieut. S. Gurney Cresswell. Cresswell, S. Gurney-(Samuel Gurney). 1998. • OVERSIZE • 2 copies available. 910.4(987)"1850/1854":7.047

The sinking of RMS Tayleur / Gill Hoffs. "The wrecking of the RMS Tayleur made headlines nearly 60 years before the Titanic. Both were run by the White Star Line, both were heralded as the most splendid ships of their time - and both sank in tragic circumstances on their maiden voyages. On 19 January 1854 the Tayleur, a large merchant vessel, left Liverpool for Australia; packed with hopeful emigrants, her hold stuffed with cargo. On the 160th anniversary of the disaster, Gill Hoffs reveals new theories behind the disaster and tells the stories of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated vessel: Captain John Noble, record breaking hero of the Gold Rush era. Ship surgeon Robert Hannay Cunningham and his young family, on their way to a new life among the prospectors of Tent City. Samuel Carby, ex-convict, returning to the gold fields with his new wife - and a fortune sewn into her corsets. But the ship's revolutionary iron hull prevented its compasses from working. Lost in the Irish Sea, a storm swept the Tayleur and the 650 people aboard towards a cliff, studded with rocks 'black as death'. What happened next shocked the world."--Dust jacket. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TAYLEUR

A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851 / by the Rev. R. Sheepshanks. Sheepshanks, R 1854. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Naval operations / Corbett, Julian S, Sir. 1920. Corbett, Julian Stafford,-Sir, 1920 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 940.45

Private papers of George, second Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty 1794-1801 Spencer, George John 1913-1924 • BOOK • 10 copies available. 92Spencer

J.F. Encke's astronomische Abhandlungen : zusammengestellt aus den Jahrgèangen 1830 bis 1862 des Berliner astronomischen Jahrbuches nebst drei in diesen Jahrgèangen enthaltenen Abhandlungen /von Bessel, Olbers, und Bremicker. 1866. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 52"1830/1862":094

Naval power and expeditionary warfare : peripheral campaigns and new theatres of naval warfare /edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.462

Religion in the British Navy 1815-1879 : piety and professionalism /Richard Blake. "This book examines how, as the nineteenth century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety, was seen in the British navy less as eccentric and marginal and more as an essential ingredient of the character looked for in professional seamen. The book traces the complex interplay between formal religious observance, such as Sunday worship, and pockets of zealous piety, showing how evangelicalism gradually earned less grudging regard, until in the 1860s and 1870s it became a dominant source of values and a force for moral reform. Religion in the British Navy explains this shift, outlining how Arctic expeditions showed the need for dependability and character, how Health Returns revealed the full extent of sexual licence and demonstrated the urgency of moral reform, and how manning difficulties in the Russian War of 1854-1856 showed that a modern fleet required a new type of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of values. The book also discusses how the navy, with its newly awakened religious sensibilities, played a major role in the expansion of Protestant missions globally, in exploration, convict transportation, the expansion of imperial frontiers, and worldwide maritime policing operations. Fervent piety had an effect in all these areas - religion had helped develop a new kind of manliness where piety as well as daring had a place."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.233.232"1815/1879"

Maritime empires : British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century /edited by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4"18"

The Victoria Cross and The George Cross : the complete history /project co-ordinator Ian Hywel-Jones, editors Christopher J. Wright, Glenda M. Anderson. 2013. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.134.22(42)"18/20"

Franklin : tragic hero of polar navigation /Andrew Lambert. A study of Captain Sir John Franklin and the expedition he led in 1845 to find the North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. Franklin, his crew and their ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, never returned - the cause of their loss a mystery. Several expeditions were launched to search for the ships in the years which followed and a number of relics discovered. Inuit evidence of the ships becoming icebound, the crew setting off on foot but succumbing to the cold and starvation and reports of cannibalism were given to the explorer John Rae in 1854. Rae's report to the Admiralty led to widespread revulsion in Victorian society, enraged Franklin's wife Jane and destroyed his own reputation. Lady Franklin's efforts to eulogise her husband and restore his reputation were supported by many leading Victorians and resulted in a number of further searches. The author re-examines Franklin's life, the background and context of the expedition and the available evidence. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FRANKLIN

Relics of the Franklin Expedition : Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845/Garth Walpole "Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own: photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London. This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.51

Discovering the North-West Passage : the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition /Glenn M. Stein. The story of HMS Investigator and the voyage undertaken by Vice-Admiral Robert McClure (1807-1873) in 1850-1854 to search for the missing Franklin expedition which had disappeared in 1848. McClure was born in Ireland and joined the Royal Navy in 1824, obtaining his first polar experience in HMS Terror in 1836. He joined an early expedition to find the Franklin expedition in 1848 and then in 1850 accompanied HMS Enterprise, under the command of Richard Collinson, on a further search. The two ships were separated in a storm, never to meet up again. McClure continued through the Bering Strait but was eventually forced to abandon the ship after she became icebound in Mercy Bay in 1853. The crew continued overland finally meeting up with HMS Resolute and HMS Intrepid, also searching for Franklin from the opposite direction. The text is supported by a detailed bibliography, notes and appendices which include the crew list of HMS Investigator and detail the creation of the Polar Medal. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1850/1854"

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II /the diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M., from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepysian library ; with a life and notes by Richard lord Braybrooke. Pepys, Samuel, 1854. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

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