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The book of the Solent : including the Isle of Wight coastal voyage "The Solent and its mainland and Isle of Wight shorelines have a unique and varied character. The landscape and coastal waters have evolved over the last 10,000 years fulfilling a vital role as a route for shipping, trading and other activities such as fishing and recreation. The extensive development along parts of the Solent shoreline together with recreational and other demands, can cause conflict with the natural environment which is of international importance. There is a need to reconcile the often conflicting demands that exist in the Solent in order to ensure that activities such as commerce and tourism can continue to exist in harmony with the natural environment." Chapters in the book include the Solent's pre-history; the natural environment; military history; the enchanted shore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; yachts and yachtsmen.--Provided by the publisher. 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 556.54(261.268)

British war memorials / Mark Quinlan. A study of British War memorials, remembrance and memorialisation. Memorials have been selected for detailed examination on the basis that they are representative or unusual examples, or are of national importance. The memorials include some in stained glass and other formats and commemorate those who served or were killed in war or conflict. Memorials from the early 19th century, the Crimean War, Boer War, the First World War and Second World War as well as many other campaigns, are included. Overseas memorials, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force memorials, and memorials to those awarded the Victoria Cross and George Cross, are also covered. Memorials are described in detail and illustrated with photographs. Brief biographies of memorial sculptors and designers are provided. Appendices include cabinet papers relating to the provision of national memorials on battlefields, the Report of the National Battlefields Memorial Committee, extracts from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts covering the formation of the War Memorials Advisory Council in 1944, and relevant legislation. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 725.945(41)

Lean's Royal Navy list. 1878- • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

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

Mr Midshipman VC : the short accident-prone life of George Drewry, Gallipoli hero /Quentin Falk. "Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry. At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nation's premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In so doing he was badly wounded. Accident-prone, he survived falling into a bog as a child; he was knocked over by a car; as a novice merchantman he fell from the mast of his ship and on another occasion was shipwrecked after rounding Cape Horn and stranded on a deserted island. Tragically he died at Scapa Flow shortly before the end of The Great War, while in command of his first ship. Using contemporary sources, the author brings Drewry's life into sharp focus and describes the role of 'Snotty' as midshipmen were then known. The result will appeal to addicts of real-life adventure and military historians."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DREWRY

Albert medals awarded to Royal Marines : with particular reference to Marine Albert Streams AM (served 1921-1943). /by Derek Oakley "The Albert medal was instituted in 1866 and was awarded for supreme gallantry not in the face of the enemy. In 1940, when King George VI introduced the George Cross and George Medal it ceased to be awarded. In 1971 surviving holders of the Albert Medal were allowed to exchange their medals for the George Cross. The first Albert Medal was awarded in 1878 and the last in 1939. [...] The heart of this publication is the story of Marine Albert Streams, who served from 1921 until he was killed on the beaches of Sicily in 1943 when he was MOA to the CO of 41 RM Commando. [...] the King personally presented him with his Albert Medal which he won when the Marines turret of HMS Devonshire blew up in 1929."-- Provided by the publisher. This publication also covers five other medallists and two other associated awards. 2007 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.134.22(42)

The sinking of HMS Royal Oak : in the words of the survivors /Dilip Sarkar. Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. To the British, the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of bringing the naval war to their home waters, and the shock resulted in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface, Royal Oak is a designated war grave. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82ROYAL OAK

Pilot charts for Atlantic Ocean Great Britain. Meteorological Office 1868 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 551.5

Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early Atlantic world /edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall. "The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent new work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge - some factual, some fictional - about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world."-- Publisher's website. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.074(4:6/8)

Hearts of Oak : the human tragedy of HMS Royal Oak /Dilip Sarkar. "The story of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak by German submarine which cost the lives of 833 Royal Navy sailors. HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. To the British, the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of bringing the naval war to their home waters, and the shock resulted in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface, Royal Oak is a designated war grave."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ROYAL OAK

The Port of Dover through time / Ian Collard. "The Port of Dover is Europe's busiest ferry port and is situated in south-east England. It is the nearest port to France, which is twenty-one miles away, and the world's busiest passenger port, with 12 million travellers, 2.5 million lorries, 2.2 million cars and motorcycles and 87,000 coaches passing through it each year. The port is owned and operated by the Dover Harbour Board, which was formed by Royal Charter in 1606 by King James I. It has an annual turnover of ¹59.8 million and the board members are appointed by the government. P&O Ferries and DFDS Seaways operate services to Calais and Dunkirk from the Eastern Docks. These docks were used for ship-breaking during the First World War and finally closed in 1964. In 1966 over 600,000 vehicles travelled through Dover's Eastern Docks to France and Belgium. The Western Docks are formed by the western arm of the harbour and include Admiralty Pier and other port facilities. They were used as a terminal for the Golden Arrow and other cross-channel train services. The railway station closed in 1994 and this area of the port was used for cross-channel hovercraft services operated by Hoverspeed, which was declared bankrupt in 2005. The railway station re-opened as the Dover Cruise Terminal and can accommodate up to three cruise ships at a time. The White Cliffs remain one of the most iconic and memorable parts of the Kent coast and the strategic importance of the town has been recognised throughout its history."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.2352

Front line harbour : a history of the Port of Dover /Anthony Lane. "Made famous by its position, the port of Dover has proved of great importance to the nation in war and peace over many centuries. A Roman stronghold, it became a major Cinque Port after the Norman Conquest. Following the murder of Thomas Beckett at Canterbury in 1170, it became a place of transit for many pilgrims, encouraging Henry II to improve the remarkable castle we know today. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I made great efforts to improve the often threatened harbour, where, in 1660, Charles II returned to Dover to re-establish the monarchy. In the past, in peacetime, the town welcomed monarchs and statesmen from all over the world who arrived by sea. The Admiralty Grand Harbour provided a base for the Dover Patrol and a receiving station for more than a million wounded in the First World War. Similarly, in 1940, the major part of the British Army retreating from Dunkirk was landed at Dover. This highly illustrated book describes the development of the harbour over the last 500 years and its associated shipping activities, commercial and naval, particularly the cross-Channel ferries, which have considerably increased in size and number in recent times to cater for the enormous number of passengers, cars and trucks which nowadays cross to and from France. Dover remains on the Front Line in road communications with Europe."--Back cover. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(422.3)

The burning of the Sarah Sands / Roger Willoughby and Alan Coles "The fire aboard the troopship Sarah Sands was an epic story of gallantry that transfixed Victorian Britain. When the ship carrying men of the 54th Regiment to India in 1857 to help quell the Mutiny caught fire in the middle of the ocean with no means of summoning help, those aboard had to deal with the potential disaster themselves. Showing extraordinary courage and discipline, they put out the fire without loss of life and successfully nursed the damaged ship 800 miles to Mauritius. The authors not only tell the story of the fire and of the individuals involved - some heroic, some less so - in this well-illustrated book but have also compiled much medallic information. There is a roll of Indian Mutiny Medals to men aboard, a section on lifesaving awards for the incident, a detailed look at why no Victoria Cross was granted and a list of extant medals."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3SARAH SANDS

Boat trains : the English Channel and ocean liner specials : history, development and operation /Martyn Pring. "In many ways this title featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international passengers to and from trans-Atlantic steamers, is an extension of luxury railway travel. But that's not the full story as it encapsulates more than 125 years of independent and organised tourism development. At the end of the nineteenth century, faster and more stable twin-screw vessels replaced cross-channel paddlers resulting in a significant expansion in the numbers of day excursionists and short-stay visitors heading to Belgium, France and the Channel Islands. Continental Europe, as it had done since the end of the Napoleonic Wars beckoned, introducing ideas of modern-day mass tourism. Numerous liners bestriding the globe were British domiciled. Major ports became hives of commercial activity involving moving freight and mail, as well as transporting all manner of travellers. Not only was there intense competition for passenger traffic between the Old and New World and Britain's imperial interests, greater numbers of well-heeled tourists headed off to warmer winter climes, and also experimented with the novel idea of using ocean steamers as hotels to visit an array of diverse destinations. Cruise tourism and the itinerary had arrived as 'Ocean Special' boat trains became essential components of railway and port procedures. Whilst some railway operations were dedicated to emigrant traffic, continental and ocean liner boat trains were also synonymous with the most glamorous travel services ever choreographed by shipping lines and railway companies working closely in tandem. This well illustrated book explores the many functions of boat train travel."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 388.4/20941

Joannis Schefferi Argentoratensis de militia navali veterum libri quatuor ad Historiam Graecam Latinamque utiles Schefferus, Joannes 1654 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.123.11/.12

The submarine memorial museum and HMS Alliance appeal. Brief history of the Submarine Museum, and an account of the launch of the appeal to restore HMS Alliance, loaned to the Museum in 1978, with photographs of its condition and an artist's impression of it restored. Also includes a brief history of the submarine service in the Royal Navy, and some biographies of submariners awarded the Victoria Cross. 1978?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 069:623.82ALLIANCE

[Shaw Savill Line passage ticket] Passenger ticket for a one-way voyage from Melbourne to Southampton, sailing on 10 October 1967 on the S.S "Southern Cross". [1967] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792SHAWSAVILL(088)"1967"

Great 20th century passenger liners of the western ocean Maxtone-Graham, John 1972 • POSTER • 1 copy available. 629.123.3(261)

The sector altered, and other scales added, with the description and use thereof Foster, Samuel 1661 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527

Evening Standard banners reporting Cutty Sark's fire on 21 May 2007. [2007]. • PAMPH-OVER • 1 copy available. 629.123CUTTY SARK:070

Ocean racing around the world Antrobus, Paul 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.1

Mare Balticum : the Baltic - two thousand years Ehrensvèard, Ulla 1995 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 94(261.24)

The Easter Egg Fleet : American ship camouflage in WWI /Aryeh Wetherhorn. "A description and reference of how the United States used artists to design ship camouflage to help foil German U-boats in The First World War. Includes background to the war, how submarines worked (then), measures to combat them, types of camouflage, who designed the patterns and how they were applied. Reference section includes colored drawings of camouflage patterns known to have been used, what ships carried which designs, and what colors were used. There is a cross index listing for ships and the patterns they carried."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

A cultural history of the sea in the age of empire / edited by Margaret Cohen. "Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 Global Age (1920 - 2000+)."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 209.6

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