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Clash of fleets : Naval battles of the Great War, 1914-18 /Vincent P. O'Hara "Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more than a catalog of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explores why battles occurred; how the different navies fought; and how combat advanced doctrine and affected the development and application of technology. The result is a holistic overview of the war at sea as it affected all nations and all theaters of war. A work of this scope is unprecedented. Organized into seven chapters, the authors first introduce the technology, weapons, ships, and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914. The next five chapters explore each year of the war and are subdivided into sections corresponding to major geographic areas. This arrangement allows the massive sweep of action to be presented in a structured and easy to follow format that includes engagements fought by the Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Ottoman, and Russian Navies in the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas as well as the Atlantic, India, and Pacific Oceans. The role of surface combat in the Great War is analyzed and these actions are compared to major naval wars before and after. In addition to providing detailed descriptions of actions in their historical perspectives, O'Hara and Heinz advance several themes, including the notion that World War I was a war of navies as much as a war of armies. They explain that surface combat had a major impact on all aspects of the naval war and on the course of the war in general. Finally, Clash of Fleets illustrates that systems developed in peace do not always work as expected in war, that some are not used as anticipated, and that others became unexpectedly important. There is much for today's naval professional to consider in the naval conflict that occurred a century ago"--Provided by publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45

British battleships 1914-18. the early Dreadnoughts /Angus Konstam. Konstam, Angus 2013 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(42)"1914/1918"

The dockyards, shipyards and marine of France / by P. Barry. Barry, P.-(Patrick), 1864. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.81(44)"18"

Thomas Sutherland : a great Victorian : chairman of P&O, founder of HSBC, member of parliament /Malcolm A biography of Sir Thomas Sutherland (1834-1922) illustrated with photographs and including an abbreviated family tree. Born in Aberdeen, at the age of 18 Sutherland left Scotland for London where he joined P&O as a clerk. Promoted to Superintendent, Sutherland was posted to Hong Kong two years later. In Hong Kong Sutherland managed the company's Asian operation, participated in the establishment of a new dock company, the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, and founded the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was also appointed a Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Returning to London, Sutherland was appointed Managing Director of P&O in 1872 and later Chairman of the Board of Governors. He served on the Board of the Suez Canal Company, became Director of Midland Bank and served as Member of Parliament for Greenock from 1884-1900. Appendices include a list of Sutherland's speeches in the House of Commons, social engagements and a record of his travels to France. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SUTHERLAND

Official programme : National Maritime Museum open day, Saturday 6 June, 10am to 5pm : 50th anniversary National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) 1987. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Greenwich : 1675 - 1975 :proceedings of the Symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 13 - 18 International Astronomical Union 1976. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 061.3

Miniature ship models : a history and collector's guide /Paul Jacobs. Jacobs, Paul, c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 086.5:629.123.1

Teatro del cielo e della terra ... Rosaccio, Giuseppe ca1650 • ATLAS-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52

Building an electronic resource collection : a practical guide /Stuart D. Lee and Frances Boyle. Lee, Stuart D. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 025.5

Container ships and oil tankers / Jonathan Sutherland and Diane Canwell. Introduces and discusses the unique details of thirteen cargo ships, from a steamship built in 1869 to a fishing trawler designed in 1988, and features a cross-section view of each ship. 2008. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123.59

Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees 1840, 1841 et 1842 : atlas Duflot de Mofras 1844 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:79)"18"

An Act for the exporting watches, sword-hilts, and other manufactures of silver Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1698 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537

Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society. [ed. Ray Riley]. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.7)

The Great War at sea : a naval history of the First World War /Lawrence Sondhaus. "This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in the design and performance of ships, wireless communication and firepower. He charts how Allied supremacy led the Central Powers to attempt to revolutionize naval warfare by pursuing unrestricted submarine warfare, ultimately prompting the United States to enter the war. Victory against the submarine challenge, following their earlier success in sweeping the seas of German cruisers and other surface raiders, left the Allies free to use the world's sea lanes to transport supplies and troops to Europe from overseas territories, and eventually from the United States, which proved a decisive factor in their ultimate victory."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45

Chemical principles of textile conservation / âAgnes Tâimar-Balâazsy and Dinah Eastop Timar-Balazsy, Agnes 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 746.0288

The optical munitions industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923 / Stephen C. Sambrook. "The story of the optical munitions industry embraces not only entrepreneurship and invention, but also aspects of military technology and international politics. Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions provides an important, previously overlooked, study into the business of manufacturing."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.94"19/20"

An Act for altering and amending an Act ... intituled, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain duties on all gold and silver plate imported, and also certain duties on all gold and silver wrought plate made in Great Britain Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1785 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537

Seafaring lore & legend : a miscellany of maritime myth, superstition, fable, and fact /Peter D. Jeans. Jeans, Peter D. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 82:398.2

The rise of oriental travel : English visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 /Gerald M. MacLean. MacLean, Gerald M., c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The war of the gun boats / Bryan Cooper. "This book traces the history and development of the gun boats from their first limited use in World War I to the fast motor boats designed in the 1930s for wealthy private clients and water speed record attempts. With account of the battles which took place during the World War II, when the vital importance of coastal waters came to be recognized, it captures the drama of this highly individual form of combat."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.824"19"

Hydrographic annual for the year ... Great Britain.-Hydrographic Department. 1913-1914. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 527(42)"19"

E-books in libraries : a practical guide /edited by Kate Price and Virginia Havergal. "Despite the fact that e-books have been in existence for decades in various guises and added to library collections for several years now, there has been a noticeable lack of published manuals on the subject. This is doubtless owing to the rapidly evolving nature of the market. There is now a plethora of different types of digital object that may be termed 'e-books' and a bewildering number of business and access models to match. Moreover the pace of change shows no sign of abating, but there is an increasing amount of popular interest in e-books, and what is needed is practical information to assist library and information professionals managing collections of e-books and doing their best to inform their users right now. This timely book, the first of its kind to provide a practical appraisal of e-books, aims to fill that need by addressing the key questions: Where do e-books come from and what are the key business models that support them? What needs to change before e-books become universally and easily used? What will the e-book landscape look like in ten years' time? How can you be sure you are building a good collection that your users can access easily? And what about money and budgets?"--Provided by publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 027:004

Chatham in the great war. "Chatham played a very important part in the nation's Great War effort. It was one of the British Royal Navy's three 'Manning Ports', with more than a third of the town's ships manned by men allocated to the Chatham Division. The war was only 6 weeks old when Chatham felt the affects of war for the first time. On 22 September 1914, three Royal Naval vessels from the Chatham Division, HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, were sunk in quick succession by a German submarine, U-9. A total of 1,459 men lost their lives that day, 1,260 of whom were from the Chatham Division. Two months later, on 26 November, the battleship HMS Bulwark exploded and sunk whilst at anchor off of Sheerness on the Kent coast. There was a loss of 736 men, many of whom were from the Chatham area. On 18 August 1914, Private 6737 Walter Henry Smith, who was nineteen and serving with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, became the first person to be killed during wartime Chatham. He was on sentry duty with a colleague, who accidentally dropped his loaded rifle, discharging a bullet that strook Private Smith and killed him. It wasn't all doom and gloom, however. Winston Churchill, as the First Lord of the Admiralty, visited Chatham early on in the war, on 30 August 1914. On 18 September 1915, two German prisoners of war, Lieutenant Otto Thelen and Lieutenant Hans Keilback, escaped from Donnington Hall in Leicestershire. At first, it was believed they had escaped the country and were on their way back to Germany, but they were re-captured in Chatham four days later. By the end of the war, Chatham and the men who were stationed there had truly played their part in ensuring a historic Allied victory."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.223"1914/1918"

Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums / edited by Scott G. Paris. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.12

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