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Three strands of an unravelling rope / Wayne Greig. Greig, Wayne, 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"

The Toxteth tragedy/ Stephen Carter The history of R R Portus and Sons Ltd, providing pilotage, mooring and boatmen's services in the Port of Garston and owning a number of tugs and sea-going barges. The family history of the Portus family and the story of the sinking of the tug Toxteth are featured. A list of Portus-owned vessels is provided. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.2

Tor Line and the Battle of the North Sea A history of Tor Line, a company formed by Rederi AB Transoil and Rederi AB Rex, which entered the northern North Sea market in 1996 and operated passenger and freight routes between Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands. The Tor Line name and its passenger and freight routes were acquired by DFDS in 1982, although the name continued in use until a corporate restructuring in 2010. Early chapters cover the Swedish - UK shipping routes operating up to 1996, including those run by Ellerman's Wilson, Svenska Lloyd and Rederi AB Svea and their joint venture the England Sweden Line formed in 1964. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Tor Line vessels, their interiors and promotional material. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792TOR

Second report from the Defence Committee, session 1979-80 : statement on the defence estimates 1980 together with the minutes of proceedings of the committee relating to the report; and the minutes of evidence taken on 15, 16 and 17 April ... Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee 1980 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 342.537

Zhongguo gu chuan tushuo ; Illustrations: shipbuilding history of ancient China / by Xi Longfei, Gong Changqi, Cai Wei. Xi, Longfei. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. F426.474-64

Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires, 1730-1850 / edited by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.8909033

P&O House / 14, 15 & 16, Cockspur St., London, S.W.1. /[Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company]. Promotional brochure describing the refurbishment and redecoration of 14, 15 and 16 Cockspur Street as the passenger booking offices of P&O. Images of carvings and murals. 19--]. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O(041)"19"

Tremlett : a man and his boats /Charles Lawrence Lawrence, Charles-(Business historian) 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92TREMLETT

A History of seafaring based on underwater archaeology Bass, George F 1972 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 930.26(204):629.12

AQA GCSE history. Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn. Mohamud, Abdul, 2022. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 909

Maps and the 20th century: Drawing the line/Tom Harper. "Accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, opening on 4 November. This book will tell a global story of the most turbulent century in history through its most powerful and important object: the map. It includes over 120 illustrations of the most important and unusual maps of the period from the world's greatest map collection, and uses them to tell the story of war, peace, depression, prosperity, and social and technological change that has made the world what it is today. This bold new history will challenge the reader's perceptions about maps, revealing them as objects of persuasion and power, as well as humour and even sadness. Above all it will open the reader's eyes to the prevalence of maps in everyday life.Highlights will include a trench-map of the Somme battlefields, a bomb damage map of London, laminated rifle-maps from Belfast in 1990, the original sketch for the London Tube, early maps of the ocean floor, a poster showing Mao studying a map on his Long March, and a Russian Mars globe from 1961. Many of the illustrations will be unexpected: the United Nations flag, the first stamps of Independent Latvia, which were printed on the backs of maps, and a motorway sign. Leading historians of cartography, society and art will explore the myriad ways in which maps were made, used and understood during 100 years of conflict, change and upheaval."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.43(100)

An Act for enlarging the term of letters patent granted by His present Majesty to Elizabeth Taylor of the town of Southampton, widow, for the sole use and exercise of certain engines, tools, instruments, and other apparatus, for making blocks, sheavers, and pins, used in the rigging of ships. 16 George III. 1775 Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1776 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.24:094:342.537

China sea pilot. the north-western coast of Borneo, the Philippine Islands from Cape Buliluyan in Palawan to Cape Bojeador in Luzon, and the islands and dangers in the southern and eastern parts of the South China Sea /United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Picturing China 1870-1950 : photographs from British collections /by Robert Bickers, Catherine Ladds, Jamie Carstairs, Yee Wah Foo. A selection of photographs included in the Picturing China exhibition, part of a project researching the history of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 337(51)(084.12)

Ocean ships / Allan Ryska-Onions "First published almost 50 years ago, Ocean Ships has become the standard reference work for maritime enthusiasts, providing authoritative and detailed information on all the world's ocean going passenger and cargo ships. The total number of ships in the last edition was over 5,000 and such has been the boom in ship building in recent years with the growth in the international cruise business as well as the amount of cargo that needs to be shipped around the world that the total of new ships has grown substantially while many older ships are being scrapped."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123(100)"20"

The captain's wife / Aled Eames. "Aled Eames, the well known maritime historian, has written about women who went to sea in the age of sail. The main part of the book is the diary of Ellen Owen, Minafon, Tudweiliog, written on the voyage home from San Francisco round the Horn, on the 'Cambrian Monarch'. It is one of the few diaries written in Welsh by a woman in the age of sail. It has now been adapted into English. It is a tribute to a generation of women who faced great dangers at sea but also travelled the world with their master mariner husbands." -- Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92OWEN(093.32)

Captain Charles Fryatt : Courageous Mariner of the First World War. "At about 7 p.m. on 27 July 1916, the Germans committed one of the worst atrocities of the First World War. Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, Master of the Great Eastern Railway ship SS Brussels, had been court-martialled, even though a civilian, for attempting to ram an attacking German submarine and being a franctireur. Having been found guilty, he was executed almost immediately by firing squad, after a show trial lasting barely two hours, during which he was afforded no proper defence. As happened following the execution of Edith Cavell in 1915, the event caused international outrage, and led to Fryatt's body being repatriated after the war and given a ceremonial funeral."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FRYATT

Arctic pilot : comprising the coasts of the Russian Federation from Mys Belyy Nos to Mys Yakan including Ostrova Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, Novaya Zemlya, Ostrova Severnaya Zemlya, Novosibirskiye Ostrova and all other offshore islands. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The "Rialto" : an immigrant ship, a collection of diaries of voyages on the "Rialto" and a brief history of the ship /Lawrence Urane Urane, Lawrence 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123RIALTO

Devonport built warships : since 1860 /Lt Cdr K.V. Burns DSM RN & Steve Bush. "Lt Cdr Ken Burns published the first edition of this book in 1981 as a small A5 handbook - this revised, updated and reformatted edition includes new images, more details and extended captions for each of the ships pictured, including some illustrious and historic names HMS ROYAL OAK, HMS WARSPITE and HMS EXETER."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(423.5)

Five weeks to Sydney : the era of the passenger liner /Nelson French A personal account of life aboard the ocean liners of the Orient Line, which merged with the P&O line in 1960, covering voyages from England to Australia, Caribbean trips and round the world travels. The author's personal recollections cover a time when many people travelled by sea across the globe. It includes a short history of the ships concerned: Ormonde, Otranto, Orontes, Orion, Orcades, Oronsay, Orsova and the Oriana. Black and white photographs and illustrations accompany the text. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792ORIENT

Sur les travaux de l'Ancienne Academie de Bruxelles : discours prononce en la seance publique de l'Academie Royale de Belique, le 16 Decembre 1858 /par M. AD. Quetelet Quetelet, M. AD. 1858 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

The LD Lines story / George Holland A subsidiary of the Louis Dreyfus Amateurs (LDA) shipping and logistics group, LD Lines entered the cross-channel ferry market in late 2005 by taking over the former P&O Portsmouth - Le Havre route. During its lifetime, the company established a network of relatively short-lived cross-channel routes. With the commencement of a joint Dover - Calais service with DFDS Seaways under the DFDS brand, the LD Lines name began to disappear. By 2015, faced with competition and reduced freight volumes as a result of the global recession, LDA had withdrawn from the ferry industry with its operations fully integrated into DFDS. Illustrated with photographs of ships and their interiors, a fleet list is included covering routes and vessels operated by LD Lines. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792

Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. List of members in each volume. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. 623.806

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