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A salute from the fleet : and other poems Noyes, Alfred 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1

From a girl to a man : how Laura became Michael /Liz Hodgkinson. "Born in 1915 into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, Laura Dillon had a difficult start in life. Her mother died when she was 10 days old and she was brought up along with her elder brother Robert by two maiden aunts, Toto and Daisy. The aunts tried to raise her as a genteel young lady who would eventually marry a suitable man with plenty of money, but Laura had other ideas. She desperately longed to be a boy, and she was also determined to get an education. Against all odds, in 1934 she won a place to St Anne's College, Oxford - then women-only. At Oxford, she realised something was seriously wrong and she could never take her place in the world as a woman. She eventually found a doctor in Sir Harold Gillies, known as the father of plastic surgery. Always sympathetic to 'nature's mistakes' he performed 13 horrendous operations on Laura over a number of years to turn her into a man. With the change of gender, and now legally a man, he became heir to the baronetey of Lismullen. Meanwhile, he trained as a doctor at Dublin University. During this time, he met and fell passionately in love with Robert (later Roberta) Cowell, whose own sex-change story became a worldwide media senstaion in 1954. The love was not returned and, rejected by Roberta, Michael became a ship's doctor for five years. This career was abruptly curtailed when the press discovered that the masculine-looking, bearded Dr Michael Dillon had begun life as a woman. A 15-year-old secret was now out in the open, and Michael was devastated beyond belief. He felt he had to 'disappear' and went to India where he eventually became the first Western man to be ordained a Tibetan monk. This meant another name change, to Lobyang Jivaka. He had always wanted to be a writer and now began to achieve a fair fegree of success. He died suddenly in India in May 1962, just a few days after completing a candid autobiography."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in HM Ships Alert and Discovery Nares, George S.-(George Strong), 1878 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.82Alert

The men of the merchant service : being the polity of the mercantile marine for 'longshore readers Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1900 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 656.61.07

eagle : Anglo-German naval confrontation in the imperial era : volume two : the antagonists : 1914-1915 Gregory, David-(Royal Naval officer) 2012- • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"19/20"(42:43)

Painting by immersion and by compressed air : a practical handbook Jennings, Arthur Seymour 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 667.666/.667

Signalling made easy : all methods for new Board of Trade examinations Bernard, D H 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.72(100)"1915"

Ships, shipping and fishing, with some account of our seaports and their industries Bosworth, George F 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123

Under German shell-fire : the Hartlepools, Scarborough and Whitby under German shell-fire Miller, Frederick 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.454(427.4)

Reed's handbook to the examination of engine room artificers Collings, E R 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621(076)

Italian decrees relative to enemy merchant vessels together with the Italian Naval prize regulations Great Britain. Parliament 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 341.32(45)

English coast defences : from Roman times to the early years of the nineteenth century Clinch, George 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(42)

Admiralty Library subject catalogue of printed books : law section Great Britain.-Admiralty 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 017.1(421)Admiralty

Palaeography and the practical study of court hand Jenkinson, Hilary 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.27

Hvor sydlyset flammer : leir- og exkspeditionsliv paa Antarktis Gran, Tryggve 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 919.9

My life among the bluejackets Weston, Agnes Elizabeth, Dame, 1840-1918 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 331.83:656.61

A handbook of weaves Oelsner, G H 1952 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 677.064

Tables of logs, lologs, illogs, and illologs all to the base 10 Chappell, E 1915 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:519.66(083.4)

Training, Royal Naval Division. 1915 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.237

The cures of the diseased in forraine attempts of the English nation Whetstone, George 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 616-08"15"

The magnetic compass in aircraft Creagh-Osborne, F 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11

Zusammenstellung der Bestimmungen uber familien-und heimatzablungen im Kriege und Bewilligungen an Ungehorige Germany. Reichs-Marine 1915-1917 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.257.1(43)"1915/1917":355.51

Spitsbergen waters : oceanographic observations during the cruise of the Veslemoy to Spitsbergen in 1912 Nansen, Fridtjof 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Veslemoy

Sokartet offuer oster oc vester soen prentet i Kiobenhaffn aff Laurentz Benedicht 1568 Benedicht, Laurentz 1915 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

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