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The Hunts : a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II English, John 1987 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 940.545.9
Dusk to dawn / Paul J. Quinn. An hour-by-hour account of events leading up to the sinking of the Titanic based on survivor accounts and evidence given to the two official inquiries. The story is told from 8 p.m. on the night of Sunday 14 April through to 4 a.m. on Monday 15 April 1912. Illustrated with photographs. 1999. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC
Bering Sea escort : life aboard a coast guard cutter in World War II The author joined the US Coast Guard in 1941, when he was 18 years old. He was assigned to the cutter Haida and spent the first months on peacetime duty in the Bering Sea. After Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into the Second World War, the Haida embarked on convoy duty in the Gulf of Alaska and along the Aleutian Islands. This book is a record of the author's experiences on convoy patrol in a ship that was, on the face of it, inadequate to the task; the Haida had been built in the 1920s, she was too slow to threaten enemy submarines and had no radar. There are numerous black and white photographs and an appendix which contains a plan of the Haida and lists her dimensions, maximum draft, full-load displacement, boilers, engine, maximum speed and endurance. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353.5
Italian Battleships : Conte di Cavour and Duilio Classes 1911-1956 /Erminio Bagnasco and Augusto de Toro. "Originally comprising five vessels in two related classes, these battleships entered service at the beginning of the Great War. As designed, they were powerful examples of the second generation of dreadnoughts, with a combination of twin and triple turrets producing a unique main armament of thirteen 12-inch guns. One ship, Leonardo da Vinci, was sunk by an explosion at Taranto in 1916, and although the hull was raised post-war, te plan to rebuild the ship was abandoned as it was not deemed cost-effective. However, the remaining four ships were to undergo one of the most radical reconstructions of any battleship class during the 1930s, emerging with an entirely new profile, an up-gunned main armament, more powerful machinery and all the characteristics of a modern fast battleship. In this form they became an important element in the Italian fleet that opposed the British from 1940. This book covers all the technical details of the shis, both as built and as rebuilt, but also provides an extended history of their active service, including battle plans and track charts, as well as their post-war fates. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, ship and armament plans, detail drawings and colour camouflage schemes, the book is a fitting companion to the author's previous work, The Littorio Class."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82520945
Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night /Julian Sancton. "August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness. In this epic tale, Julian Sancton unfolds a story of adventure gone horribly awry. As the crew teetered on the brink, the Captain increasingly relied on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean. Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals, and exclusive access to the ship's logbook, the result is equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror. This is an unforgettable journey into the deep."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.8904
Scapa Flow : the defences of Britain's great fleet anchorage, 1914-45 /Angus Konstam "A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. In 1914 and again in 1939, the British began building a comprehensive defensive network by fortifying the entrances to Scapa Flow, and then extended these defenses to cover most of Orkney. By 1940, it had become an island fortress, the largest integrated defensive network of its kind in Europe, manned by as many as 50,000 Commonwealth troops. Backed by newly commissioned artwork, naval historian Angus Konstam tells the story of this mighty naval fortress, many pieces of which can still be seen on the island today."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(411.2)
The battleship Fuso "One of the Conway 'Anatomy' series, this is a study of the 1914 Japanese super-dreadnought battleship 'Fuso', accompanied by technical details and career notes. By the author and illustrator of 'Yamato' and 'Takao'."--Provided by the publisher. 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(52)
The Irish aboard the Titanic Focusing on the Irish passengers and crew on board the Titanic, this work provides an insight into the social conditions and political context of the time and how race, religion and social class impacted the chance of survival. It highlights the subsequent failure to call on the evidence of third-class survivors at the official inquiries, many of whom were the last to take to the lifeboats and witnessed the ship breaking into two. The individual stories of the Irish passengers and crew on board are told, supported by their letters, interviews and newspaper reports as well as many photographs. Details of non-Irish first- and second-class passengers embarking at Queenstown (Cobh) are also given. Appendices include a plan of lifeboats and their Irish occupants, details of those who disembarked at Queenstown, third-class passengers who were booked aboard Titanic at Queenstown but who did not embark, and the White Star Line list of those embarking at Queenstown who survived or were lost in the sinking. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC
The jail that went to sea : an untold story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-42 /Peter Haining. "In 1941 the British people had their backs to the wall in their lone fight against the might of Hitler's Germany. America was neutral, at least until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Glasgow became the starting point for one of the most amazing and, until now, untold episodes of the war. Government officials desperate for men to sail merchant ships across the Atlantic to collect vital equipment and supplies from North America devised a plan to enlist convicts from Barlinnie Prison and use them as crew for a 25,000-ton merchantman, the George Washington. Quite simply a choice of death or glory, this book relates the extraordinary story of those men through the accounts of two survivors, the log and memories of Captain David Bone, and Glasgow police records and documents."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9
Pirate : the buccaneer's (unofficial) manual /Stephen Turnbull ; with 122 illustrations. "In the Golden Age of piracy, privateers and buccaneers are at large on the seven seas, tyrannizing the ships of enemy nations and squandering the spoils in safe havens along the Spanish Main - provided they avoid the hangman, that is. This book will tell you everything you need to know to join the ranks of a swashbuckling crew, survive aboard ship, and perhaps one day don the captain's tricorn! Will you set your sights on the treasure fleets that carry gold, silk and spices from the colonies to the Crown? Or will you target harbour towns, cannons and cutlasses at the ready as you prepare to fight? FInd out: WHAT scurvy is, and how to avoid it; WHICH flags to fly when you spot a ship on the horizon; WHERE to drop anchor and sell your ill-gotten booty; HOW to outsmart the bounty-hunters and excisemen on your tail; WHY burying your treasure might not be the most sturdy retirement plan?"--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1-053.2
Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk /Buddy Levy. "The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built makeshift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery."--Provided by publisher 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.804
British warships of the Second World War : detailed in the original builders' plans /John Roberts. "This volume reproduces a representative selection of official plans depicting the main types of warship with which the Royal Navy fought World War II. Carefully chosen from the incomparable collection at the National Maritime Museum, these range from battleships and fleet aircraft carriers, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to examples of the vast array of specialist vessels built during the war. Concentrating on as-fitted drawings which show the warships as they first entered service, this collection offers an unprecedented wealth of details of some of the Royal Navy's most famous ships. It also documents how their appearance changed over time. Printed in full color to highlight the modifications, alterations and additions appear in different shades of ink and wash. With text and detailed individual captions by one of the leading experts in the field, this book provides an insight into the warship design process and explains for the benefit of ship modelers and technical historians which types of plan contain the most valuable information." --Provided by the publisher. 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1939/1945"
Navies in the 21st century / Conrad Waters "What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War. It provides the overall political and economic context, assesses significant naval operations from the first Gulf War to Russia's annexation of Crimea, reviews changes in the objectives and composition of the principal fleets, describes major design developments amongst the main warship types, and examines wider technological and operational developments, including naval aviation, shipbuilding and manning. It follows the successful approach and format of Seaforth's annual World Naval Review, with individual sections by internationally acknowledged experts, and is heavily illustrated in a similar style. As a succinct, single-volume overview of how contemporary navies have evolved to meet today's challenges it is unrivalled, and will prove invaluable to defence professionals and interested enthusiasts alike."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(100)
British blockade runners in the American Civil War / Joseph McKenna. "Focusing on British involvement in the war, this history names the overseas bankers and manufacturers who, in need of cotton and other exports, financed and equipped the ships that ran the blockade. The author attempts to disentangle the names of the captains--many were Royal Navy officers on temporary leave--and tells their stories in their own words"-- [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.7/5
The development of mobile logistic support in Anglo-American naval policy, 1900-1953 / Peter V. Nash. Nash, Peter V. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.41(42:72)"1900/1953"
Crushing the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of the Surigao Strait : the last crossing of the T /Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. "In late 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific was going badly for Japan. The U.S. Pacific fleet had moved to the Mariana Islands in support of General MacArthur's army, which had landed on the east coast of Leyte in October. The U.S. 7th Fleet was near the Surigao Strait off Leyte. The Japanese strategy was to entrap the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet by its naval forces from the north in the Sibuyan Sea, and with assault from the south from Surigao Strait. On the afternoon of 24 October, 7th Fleet torpedo-boats moved through Leyte Gulf and Surigao Strait into the Mindanao Sea south of Leyte, and by dusk were in position on their patrol-lines. Covering the northern part of the strait, were posted the destroyer squadrons, cruisers, and battleships to form the horizontal bar to a T of vast fire power which the enemy would be forced to approach vertically as he moved forward. With overwhelming force, the impenetrable gauntlet defeated the Japanese at Surigao Strait and played a significant in winning the Battle of Leyte Gulf and in so helping to secure the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against Japanese attack from the sea." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/25