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De bello Rhodio libri tres ... Adiuncta est insulae Melitae descriptio ... Item quia hae insulae navigiis petuntur, quaedam de ventis, et nautica buxula ventorum indice Fontanus, Jacobus 1540 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914.99

On the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination at St Helena Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1847 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

Viking navigation / S²ren Thirslund. Thirslund, S²ren, 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527:936.8

The Bakerian Lecture : an account of experiments to determine the amount of the dip of the magnetic needle in London in August 1821 ... Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1821 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

Determinations of the magnetic inclination and force in the British Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in the summer of 1847 ... communicated by ... Sabine Keely, George W 1848 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

On the means adopted in the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories, for determining the absolute values, secular change, and annual variation of the terrestrial magnetic force Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1850 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:537.67

Unsettled : the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England /Patricia Fumerton. This book attempts to elucidate the everyday lives of the working poor in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on seamen. Much of the book is built around a case study of Edward Barlow, whose extensively illustrated journal recounts his experiences as a merchant sailor in the late 17th century. Includes black and white illustrations. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BARLOW, EDWARD

An empire of ice : Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science /Edward J. Larson. Larson, Edward J.-(Edward John) 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99):5/6"19"

Air navigation from balloons to Concorde : selected essays from the archives of the Royal Institute of Navigation /edited by Walter Blanchard. Selected essays from the archives of the Royal Institute of Navigation. Topics covered include: provenance of navigational science and air navigation; first flights, including airship navigation and early air navigation; the development of airborne dead-reckoning pre-and post-1940; aspects of flight planning in civil aviation; navigation systems and instrument aids; the S.A.S. Transarctic flights; history of inertial navigation; compasses and sextants; astronomical navigation; radio and navigation; development of the aircraft automatic radio compass; GPS in the year 2000 and beyond; air traffic control and landing systems; military navigation including radionavigation in the UK in World War Two and navigation in the Royal Air Force 1960-1980; weather and navigation including meteorology and aerial navigation and the jet stream. 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.62

Why sailors can't swim : and other marvellous maritime curiosities /Nic Compton. "Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th? Why are boats always referred to as 'she'? How do you navigate the ocean without a compass? Does the Bermuda Triangle really exist? Why do sailors wear earrings? Did Blackbeard actually exist? Did Nelson really say 'Kiss me, Hardy'? What is the correct way to bury a body at sea? Why is a rope never called a rope? This fascinating collection of maritime folklore and trivia delves into the history, science and culture of the sea, and is packed full of entertaining, surprising and insightful facts, from the delightfully obscure to the amusingly quaint, including everyday expressions that have their origins on board ship. It is a complete treasure trove for young and old alike. Topics include: sailors and superstitions; ships and shipbuilding; navigation and seamanship; pirates and smugglers; fish and fishermen; coasts and oceans; tides and weather; art and literature of the sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2013 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 398:656.61

Keeping a puffer afloat : the story of a small steamship /Henry Cleary. "From the heart of Rosyth naval base in 1978 five volunteers set out on VIC 56, an elderly steamer snatched from a scrapyard fate. With only a basic radio and a compass made usable by one of the crew, they set out down the North Sea. Turned away by some ports and welcomed in others, she began a new life on the London river just as Docklands was being reborn. This was the first of many challenges to keep the steamer going and family, friends, work colleagues and sympathetic visitors were ruthlessly enlisted to help. A rare survivor of wartime shipping, the puffer attracted interest around the Thames estuary and in 1989 sailed across the North Sea to Flushing in Holland. VIC 56 appeared in arts events and in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012 before being donated to Portsmouth Boathouse 4 in 2019 where she is a popular exhibit. Trips were only possible through the heavy work programme of the engineers to keep the engine, boiler and other machinery in good order. This book looks at the challenges for a small historic vessel." --Provided by the publisher 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82436

All brave sailors : the sinking of the Anglo-Saxon, August 21, 1940 /J. Revell Carr. "In the darkness of 21 August 1940, eight hundred miles to the west of the Canary Islands in mid-Atlantic, a German warship ambushed and sank a British freighter, the Anglo-Saxon. A small and dwindling band of men from the Anglo-Saxon - initially seven in number - escaped in its jolly boat and, equipped with just a compass for navigation, embarked on what would become one of the longest open boat voyages in recorded history, a ten-week ordeal of hunger and thirst, death and survival. [...] The Anglo-Saxon survivors' story caught the imagination of millions through the widespread media coverage of the time and, at a time when the US was neutral, opened American eyes to the horrors of the war in Europe - but has since been largely forgotten."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available.

The art of navigation in England in Elizabethan and early Stuart times / Waters, David W. 1958. Waters, David W 1958 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 527(42)"15/16"

Observations on the dip and variation of the magnetic needle and on the intensity of the magnetic force; made during the late voyage in search of a north west passage Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1819 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 537.67

The Blue Star Line : a history of the of the vessels of the company with photographs, cachets & covers /by Mike Dovey & Ken Bottoms. "This publication is based on the fantastic work of Society member Ken Bottoms who built a database for the Blue Star Line list of vessels that cannot be equalled. It was supplemented by the co-author who found over 620 superb photo-graphs of the vessels, many of which must be seen to be believed. Add to this the philatelic element of showing the majority of vessels with covers used by paquebot from around the world and we have a book that will stand the test of time for years to come, and for content will probably never be beaten."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Distant freedom : St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872 /Andrew Pearson. "This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or 'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually between freedom and slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209973

Unsettled : the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England /Patricia Fumerton. This book attempts to elucidate the everyday lives of the working poor in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on seamen. Much of the book is built around a case study of Edward Barlow, whose extensively illustrated journal recounts his experiences as a merchant sailor in the late 17th century. Includes black and white illustrations. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BARLOW, EDWARD

The sea mark : Captain John Smith's voyage to New England /Russell M. Lawson. "By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and secured the help of Pocahontas. By 1614 he was seeking new adventures. He found them on the 7,000 miles of jagged coastline of what was variously called Norumbega, North Virginia, or Cannada, but which Smith named New England. This land had been previously explored by the English, but while they had made observations and maps and interacted with the native inhabitants, Smith found that "the Coast is...even as a Coast unknowne and undiscovered." The maps of the region, such as they were, were inaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompanied by sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings and made ocean soundings. His Description of New England, published in 1616, which included a detailed map, became the standard for many years, the one used by such subsequent voyagers as the Pilgrims when they came to Plymouth in 1620. The Sea Mark is the first narrative history of Smith's voyage of exploration, and it recounts Smith's last years when, desperate to return to New England to start a commercial fishery, he languished in Britain, unable to persuade his backers to exploit the bounty he had seen there."--Provided by the publisher. [2015] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(734.1/.6)"16"

The boundless sea : a human history of the oceans /David Abulafia. "For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas."--Provided by the publsher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.46

Uncommon warriors : 200 years of the of the most unusual American naval vessels /Ken W. Sayers. Sayers, Ken W. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(72)"19/20"

Mapping an Atlantic world, circa 1500 / Alida C. Metcalf. "Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the Atlantic World. But how did sixteenth-century chartmakers and mapmakers begin to conceptualize?and present to the public?an interconnected Atlantic World that was open and navigable, in comparison to the mysterious ocean that had blocked off the Western hemisphere before Columbus's exploration? In Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500, Alida C. Metcalf argues that the earliest surviving maps from this era, which depict trade, colonization, evangelism, and the movement of peoples, reveal powerful and persuasive arguments about the possibility of an interconnected Atlantic World. Blending scholarship from two fields, historical cartography and Atlantic history, Metcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world. Combined with the new placement of the Atlantic, the visual imagery on Atlantic maps?which featured decorative compass roses, animals, landscapes, and native peoples - communicated the accessibility of distant places with valuable commodities. Even though individual maps became outdated quickly, Metcalf reveals, new mapmakers copied their imagery, which then repeated on map after map. Individual maps might fall out of date, be lost, discarded, or forgotten, but their geographic and visual design promoted a new way of seeing the world, with an interconnected Atlantic World at its center. Describing the negotiation that took place between a small cadre of explorers and a wider class of cartographers, chartmakers, cosmographers, and artists, Metcalf shows how exploration informed mapmaking and vice versa. Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps."--Provided by publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.09182/109031

The golden age of maritime maps : when Europe discovered the world /under the direction of Catherine Hofmann, Hâeláene Richard, Emmanuelle Vagnon. "'Portolan charts, ' so called from the Italian adjective portolano, meaning 'related to ports or harbours, ' were born during the 12th century in the maritime community. These charts, drawn on parchment and crisscrossed with lines referring to the compass directions, indicated the succession of ports and anchorages along the shores, and were used by European sailors exploring the world up until the 18th century. Not only used as navigational instruments on boats, they were also produced for wealthy sponsors in the form of illuminated images of the world, to illustrate the economic and political interests of the major European sea powers. This book takes stock of the state of knowledge on these maps, bringing together contributions from a dozen European specialists, who trace the history and diversity of styles and places of production of these charts. This type of mapping is approached from three angles. The first part, 'The Mediterranean, ' refers to the manufacture and use of the first charts, centered on the Mediterranean, and the persistence of this tradition in the Mediterranean basin until the 18th century. The second part, 'Wide Open Spaces, ' shows how these regional charts have evolved from a technical and iconographical point of view at the time of the great European voyages, in order to include the oceans and new worlds. The third part, 'The Indian Ocean, ' shows how these charts, in a maritime area where ancient civilizations coexisted, were dependent on other cartographic traditions (ancient, Arab, Asian) before joining the information reported by Portuguese sailors and European trading companies in the modern era."--Publisher's website. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 912.43(4)"14/16"

The technical history and index : a serial history of technical problems dealt with by Admiralty departments /Technical History Section, Admiralty. Great Britain.-Admiralty 1919-1921 • FOLIO • 49 copies available. 940.459(42)

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