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P&O cruises : celebrating 175 years of heritage : tracing our roots back 175 years /Sharon Poole & Andrew Sassoli-Walker. A history of P&O to mark the 175th anniversary of P&O Cruises, commencing with the partnership formed in 1822 between Brodie McGhie Willcox and Arthur Anderson and which quickly became the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. Winning the Admiralty contract to carry mail between the United Kingdom and the Iberian peninsular was a turning point for the company. Successfully tendering for the contract to deliver mail to the Indian subcontinent in 1840, the company name was changed to the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, from then on known as P&O. The book charts the development from liners to cruise ships and the rebranding to P&O Cruises, merger with the Orient Line in 1960, acquisition of the American cruise line Princess in 1974 and merger with Carnival Corporation in 2003. Other chapters focus on the company's relationship with the port of Southampton, corporate culture, dining on board, shore excursions, entertainment and activities on board and a summary of the role of officers, staff and crew. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs of ships and their interiors, personnel and paper ephemera. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O

Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present /Leon Fink. "Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."--Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara. --Book jacket. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22"1812/..."

They couldn't have done it without us : the Merchant navy in the Falklands War /John Johnson-Allen. Over seventy merchant ships sailed in the Task force sent by Britain to recapture the Falkland islands in 1982. Some were Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels, but the majority were STUFT-ships taken up from trade-and the officers and crew of these merchant vessels, all volunteers, suddenly found themselves thrust into a war zone in the South Atlantic. Remarkably little has been written about the part played by the Merchant navy, summarised by the official history of the campaign as 'an impenetrable mystery, girt about by seasickness' This book lifts the curtain on that mystery, to reveal something of the experiences of the merchant seamen and women who made possible the retaking of the Falkland islands. John Johnson-Allen, maritime historian and former merchant naval officer, combines personal accounts, documents and comment to bring to life the events of the Falklands War, as seen from the merchant ships that played such a vital role in that conflict. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1982"(829):656.61(42)

Palm oil and small chop / John Goble. "Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa and small chop is the addition of ingredients that make it palatable for European taste. From the unique perspective of working aboard merchant ships trading to the area, the author provides a viewpoint of the first 25 years of West African independence - it is simultaneously the story of the final years of many of the British Merchant Navy's liner trades where fortunes largely depended upon imperial routes. The author served in ships of three very different shipping companies and from this unusual breadth of experience, a fascinating story of ships, their crews, their cargoes and the peoples from Senegal to Angola is told. The last of the famous surf ports, the navigation of the twisting waterways of the Niger Delta and the ascent of the great Congo River are vividly described. Told sympathetically, yet with a keen eye for the absurd and downright funny, this is a lively and colourful story of ordinary people trying to make a living in a world where events, over which they have no control, change their lives irreversibly."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(66)

32 in '44 : building the Portsmouth submarine fleet in World War II /Rodney K. Watterson. "In the 1930s, the U.S. government's Portsmouth Navy Yard built less than two submarines a year, yet in 1944 it completed an astonishing 32 submarines, and over the course of the war produced 37 per cent of all U.S. submarines. This book analyzes the factors behind the small yard's record-setting production, including streamlined operations, innovative management practices, the Navy's commitment to develop the yard's resources as an alternative to private industry, and the yard's ability to adapt quickly to a decentralized wartime shipbuilding environment. The author highlights similarities between Portsmouth's efforts to accelerate production and those of private shipyards. He concludes that private shipyards deviated little from construction plans, while at Portsmouth a continuing dialogue with the Navy resulted in design changes dictated by feedback from the frontlines."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.128.1(73)

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

Filipino crosscurrents : oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization /Kale Bantigue Fajardo "Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world's goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents, an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural politics of seafaring, Filipino maritime masculinities, and globalization in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Drawing on fieldwork conducted on ships and in the ports of Manila and Oakland, as well as on an industrial container ship that traveled across the Pacific, Fajardo argues that Filipino seamen have become key figures through which the Philippine state and economic elites promote Filipino masculinity and neoliberal globalization. From government officials to working-class seamen and seafarers' advocates, Fajardo's wide-ranging analysis exposes the gaps in dominant narratives of Filipino seamen in national, regional, and global contexts. Writing in a hybrid style that weaves together ethnographic description, cultural critique, travelogue, and autobiography, Fajardo invites readers to reconsider the meanings of masculinity and manhood. "--Provided by the publisher. [2011]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22(599)

The Oxford handbook of the Atlantic world, c.1450-c.1850 / edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9"14/18"

The Dreadnought and the Edwardian age / edited by Robert Blyth, Andrew Lambert and Jan Rèueger. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82DREADNOUGHT

The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage /Anthony Brandt. "Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascination characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and politicians, sceptics and tireless believers. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history - a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"18"

The world of John Secker (1716-95), Quaker mariner / edited by Andrew Hopper. "John Secker's reminiscences of his life at sea provide a remarkable bottom-up account of the eighteenth-century maritime world. The son of a Quaker miller from North Walsham, Secker's global sea-faring life took him not only across maritime Europe and North America, but also to Arabia, India, the South Seas and Pacific Ocean. His travels encompass themes as diverse as religion, overseas cultures, migration, slavery, navigation, weather, living conditions at sea, commerce and cargoes, navel engagements, discipline and press-gangs, piracy, insurance fraud, foreign imprisonment and Jacobite exiles."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SECKER

Shaw Savill's magnificent seven : Corinthic, Athenic, Ceramic, Gothic, Persic, Runic, Suevic /Andrew Bell and Murray Robinson. A history of Shaw Savill's Corinthic, Athenic, Ceramic, Gothic, Persic, Runic, Suevic - seven ships designed as large cargo vessels to service the trade routes between New Zealand and London. The Corinthic, Athenic, Ceramic and Gothic also carried passengers - the Gothic famous as the vessel carrying Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on their world coronation tour. Chapters on each vessel provide details of their design, construction, service history and cargoes, and also include personal accounts of events and anecdotes about life on board. Each chapter is richly illustrated including plans and photographs of the ship's launch, interior and exterior, and crew. An appendix covers the demise of Furness Withy, owner of Shaw Savill since 1935, and a concluding section contains illustrations of memorabilia including extracts from the 'Information for passengers' booklet, publicity brochures and documents relating to the coronation tour. 2011. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 347.792SHAW SAVILL

Grand fleet battlecruisers / text by Steve Backer ; colour profiles and line drawings by George Richardson ; appearance sketches by John Roberts. "The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs, from the Invincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915, and including the hybrid 'large light cruisers' Courageous, Glorious and Furious."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 086.5:623.821.3(42)

Walter Langley : from Birmingham to Newlyn /Roger Langley. "This is a revised and rewritten edition, with many new illustrations, of the study first published in 1997. It provides nique insights into the Newlyn art colony and the world of the Victorian professional artist. Langley was a pioneer of the remarkable colony of artists drawn to the south-west corner of Cornwall in the 1880s. Working mainly in watercolour, and a sympathetic and unsentimental recorder of the hard lives of the Newlyn fisherfolk, Langley made his name especially through a series of memorably dramatic watercolour and oil paintings. Included in this new edition are also examples of the artist's powerful charcoal drawings. As well as high drama, Langley was the chronicler of the simple, everyday scene in Cornwall, the Midlands, Brittany and Holland. Above all, he is a rival to Stanhope Forbes for the title 'father of the Newlyn colony', but unlike Forbes he did not leave a substantial body of writing or correspondence to advance such a claim. New to this edition are profiles of friends and colleagues from Birmingham who painted in Cornwall including Edwin Harris and William Wainwright."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7LANGLEY

Titanic : a night remembered /Stephanie Barczewski. In a night of unforgettable tragedy, the world's most famous liner struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912 and sank. Over 1500 people died. Whose fault it was, and how the passengers and crew reacted, has been the subject of continuing dispute over the 100 years since the disaster. This is an account of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage which also focuses on some of those who died: among them Titanic's captain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank. In this centenary edition Stephanie Barczewski traces the events of that fatal night. Many of those who died were treated as heroes and how these men were remembered says much about contemporary values of manhood, chivalry and national pride. Titanic: A Night Remembered also sets the liner in the context of three ports: Belfast, where she was built; Southampton, which lost 600 citizens as members of her crew; and Queenstown in Ireland, her last port of call."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

The Seaman's Medical Advocate : Or, An attempt to shew that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British Nation through the yellow fever /Elliot Arthy "Written by a naval surgeon in 1798, this medical treatise provides a frank and harrowing account of life in the British navy. Elliot Arthy started his career as a surgeon's mate in the Africa and West Indies merchant service. He eventually became a surgeon, and worked on a slave ship for many years. In this publication he shows that at least 5,000 seamen were lost to Britain annually through yellow fever and other illnesses, a loss the nation could little afford during wartime. Stressing the 'absolute necessity' for naval surgeons, Arthy's treatise is divided into six parts: the first examines the nature and causes of yellow fever; the second discusses how seamen come into contact with the disease; the third focuses on other causes of the loss of seamen on board ships of war; the fourth on statistics. The fifth and sixth parts suggest methods of prevention."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 613.68

The 'Clio', 1877-1920 : a study of the functions of an industrial training ship in North Wales /by Emrys Wyn Roberts. "Officially, the Clio - moored in the Menai Strait - was a care and training ship for young 'street ruffians' in the second half of the nineteenth century. This study shows that it also provided a regular supply of seamen for the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine. Letters of some of the old boys of Clio during the First World War and an unique collection of photographs combine to make this book a fascinating history of a pre-1918 Education Act establishment."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123CLIO

How to survive the Titanic, or, The sinking of J. Bruce Ismay / Frances Wilson. The story of J. Bruce Ismay (1862-1937), managing director and chairman of the White Star Line, the company that commissioned the building of the Titanic. The author focuses on Ismay's life leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, his actions on the night of the sinking and the impact of this event on his later life. The author considers the evidence given by Ismay and others to both the American and British inquiries into the disaster, and draws on the correspondence between Ismay and a fellow survivor Marian Thayer, as well as the work of author Joseph Conrad. Ismay was villifed in the press for taking to a lifeboat shortly before the ship sank, accused of cowardice and of dictating the Titanic's speed, and held responsible for the lack of lifeboats. Although cleared of blame by the British inquiry, Ismay never recovered and retired from shipping in 1913 spending much of his life in Ireland at his home Costelloe Lodge in Connemara. 2011. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92ISMAY:656.61.085.3TITANIC

Steel's elements of mastmaking, sailmaking and rigging Steel, David, 1932 • FOLIO • 5 copies available. 629.12.014.2

The English press in the eighteenth century / Jeremy Black. First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history. Professor Black considers the reasons for the growth of the "print culture" and the relations of newspapers to magazines and pamphlets; the mechanics of circulation; and chronological developments. Extensively illustrated with quotations from newspapers of the time, the book is a lively as well as original and informative treatment. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 070(42)"17"

From Antarctica to the gold rushes : in the wake of the Erebus : Alexander Smith, polar voyager, astronomer & goldfields commissioner 1812-1872 /John Ramsland. "Commander Alexander Smith served the Royal Navy with fearless resolution for seventeen years on the quarterdeck, encountering many adventures on the high seas - an intrepid voyager in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Under the command of Captain James Clark Ross, he became a heroic polar explorer in the north Atlantic and was chosen as First Mate for the epic 1839-1843 British Antarctic Expedition aboard HMS Erebus. The Ross expedition was the first to go where no human being had gone before despite competition from Charles Wilkes' American and Dumont d'Urville's French expeditions. Retiring from the Royal Navy, he was appointed Goldfields Commissioner in Castlemaine during the Australian gold rushes in 1853 and developed a fine reputation as a botanist and naturalist...an extraordinary but forgotten life."--Back cover. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1839/1843":92SMITH, ALEXANDER

Nelson's refuge : Gibraltar in the age of Napoleon /Jason R. Musteen. Musteen, Jason R. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1793/1815"(468.2)

Arctic mission : 90 North by airship and submarine /William F. Althoff. "Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic in 1958, one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus would, if successful, reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration; an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole. The airships unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project, with the objective to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle, the sole military airship ever to do so, en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp in the Arctic Ocean. As 719 pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole, then without changing course logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic. Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout, and is a distinct contribution to naval literature."--from Amazon. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1958"(73:98)

Moby-duck : the true story of 28,000 bath toys lost at sea /Donovan Hohn. "When Donovan Hohn first heard the remarkable story of how 28,904 bath toys spilled into the Pacific en route to the US from China and have been washing up along beaches throughout the world ever since, he decided to find out more and assumed he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to some beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and geography. Setting out on a series of journeys to track the renegade rubber ducks, Moby-Duck is an adventure into the heart of the sea through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst weather imaginable, and the riveting story of an accidental odyssey which pulled Hohn into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring terrain of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy domain of Chinese toy factories. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from (and where it is heading...). In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity for anyone who is interested in obsession, travel, plastic, and that great American novel, Moby-Dick."--Dust jacket. c2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 577.472(26):628.515

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