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Metals : their properties and treatment Bloxam, Charles Loudon 1881 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 669
The elements of graphic statics Ott, Karl von 1876 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 531.2
Magneto- and dynamo-electric machines : with a description of electric accumulators Glaser-de Cew, Gustav 1884 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621.313
Eighth report, 1807 Great Britain. Commissioners for Revising and Digesting the Civil Affairs of His Majesty's Navy 1809 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.643.8(42)"1807"
First report, 1805 Great Britain. Commissioners for Revising and Digesting the Civil Affairs of His Majesty's Navy 1806 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.51(42)"1805":359.4/.5
MARItimes 1997-2018 incomplete run • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Support for the fleet : architecture and engineering of the Roya Navy's bases, 1700-1914 /Jonathan Coad. "This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy's shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures. The varied requirements of the sailing navy and its steam-driven successor are reflected in successive dockyard remodellings and expansions. The influence of the Royal Engineers is traced from early beginnings in the 1700s to their major role in the dockyard expansions from the late 1830s into the twentieth century. The architectural development of victualling and ordnance yards, naval hospitals, schools and coaling stations are all described, together with their key contributions to Great Britain's long naval supremacy. Copiously illustrated with maps, plans and photographs, this important and lively work will appeal to naval historians, industrial archaeologists and students of British history."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.81(42)"17/19"
Mr. Hilhouse of Bristol : shipbuilder for the Navy, 1749-1822 /Andrew Whitefield. "In this book Andrew Whitefield sets out to rediscover Hilhouse's career and answer the questions that first attracted him to the enigma of Hilhouse. How did he start as a first generation shipbuilder? How did he overcome the Navy's prejudice against merchants and reluctance to build at Bristol? Where was his famous Redclift yard? Why did the Navy cease to place orders? Drawing on hitherto unpublished primary sources and following tantalizing clues, he traces Hilhouse's family's origins, their involvement as Dissenters and Merchant Venturers in Bristol's Golden Age trading in sugar and risking all in privateering ventures. The book describes Hilhouse's shipbuilding career, not without setbacks, with details of his dockyard organization, dealings with the Navy and histories of his warships and also recounts the cultural side of his life and influential artistic friends. The story that emerges provides a fascinating portrait of a shipbuilder, artist and family man, during a vital period of Britain's maritime history and gives James Martin Hilhouse the recognition he deserves."-- 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HILHOUSE:629.12(424.1)
Cableship Ocean Layer / Submarine Cables Limited. Pamphlet describing in some detail the machinery, equipment and accomodation of the CS Ocean Layer. The cable ship was coverted from the SS Empire Frome by R.S. Hayes, Pembroke Dockyard. Illustrated with a large folded plan and many photographs, and containing a list of the cableships previously owned Submarine Cables and its parent companies. 195?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123OCEAN LAYER
Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society. [ed. Ray Riley]. 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.7)
Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society. [ed. Ray Riley]. 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(946.82)
Haulbowline : the naval base & ships of Cork Harbour /Daire Brunicardi. "Cork harbour is recognised as one of the finest natural harbours in the world. It has been a naval base almost continuously for over 200 years, and druing that time it has always played a key part in Ireland's maritime affairs. In this fascinating book, Daire Brunicardi captures the way in which the harbour has helped to define Ireland's relationship with the sea. From the first development of Haulbowline Island and the construction of the Naval Dockyard, the author charts the activities of the Victorian navy in Irish waters, how during the First World War, Cork harbour became a pillar of the British defence against the German U-boats, why the first US flotillas took the harbour as their home and how, after Armistice, the British navy became based here throughout the Irish Civil War. What emerges is a thorough, engaging and insightful history of the heartland of Ireland's maritime interests."--Back cover 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(417.752)
Journey into the Unknown : 1982, HMS Hermes /George McDonald. "HMS Hermes, the flagship of the Falkland War 1982. This is my personal account of my own experience through out this campaign. Setting off from Portsmouth Royal Naval Dockyard in April 1982 and returning triumphantly in July 1982 to a magnificent welcome home, after a long period at sea. - A personal account from George McDonald recalling his time serving on board HMS Hermes during the 1982 Falklands conflict."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Maritime Museum of Canada : Occasional papers. 1958-1960. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1757/1762"(714)
List of workmen & apprentices in His Majesty's dockyards 1748 : an alphabetical index transcribed from ADM106/2976 at the Public Record Office /by M T McGovern. McGovern, M T • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
Royal Navy and dockyard buildings, Simon's Town Read, A E 1995. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"17/19"(687)
Woolwich / general editor, Andrew Saint ; edited by Peter Guillery. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 72(421.6)
Cargo ships : A colour portfolio /David L. Williams & Richard de Kerbrech. "In this new title, the authors examine the great variety of freighters and coasters visible in ports and harbours around the British coast. Apart from the obvious interest to wartime enthusiasts in seeing images of long-lost ships, the beauty of these photographs is that they also show how much of the dockyard infrastructure such as cranes and warehouses that are now as much a part of history as the ships."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82450941
Kent ports and harbours / Anthony Lane. "Kent Ports and Harbours charts the changes that have occurred over the last 400 years to the Kent ports and their associated shipping industries. It covers the development from naval dockyard to commercial port that took place at Chatham and Sheerness, along with the growth of the well-known seaside towns such as Margate and Ramsgate which expanded as the paddle steamers reduced the dangers of sea travel. Starting with the sailing vessels fishing or carrying small cargoes and finishing with the modern ferries, tankers, car carriers and container ships of today, this highly illustrated book emphasises the variety of seafarers, craft and harbour environments that can be found in Kent waters."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 627.2(422.3)
Anglo-French naval rivalry 1840-1870 "The Crimean War brought the British and French navies, the most technologically advanced in the world, into alliance after many years of common hostility. It was a period of enormous technological innovation and development, witnessing the transition from sail to screw, and the birth of the ironclad. In this extensively reseached and thorough study, C. I. Hamilton traces the technological development of both British and French navies and analyses the political and diplomatic policies which formed the backdrop to the naval history of the period 1840-1870. Dr Hamilton compares the two navies in a variety of important ways: their recruitment and training systems, dockyard facilities, naval administrations, strategy and tactics."--Provided by the publisher. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)
Shipbuilding and ships on the Thames : proceedings of a third symposium, held on 18 February 2006 at Greenwich Maritime Institute, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich /edited by Roger Owen. 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12(282.242.1)
Re-inventing the ship : science, technology and the maritime world, 1800-1918 /edited by Don Leggett and Richard Dunn. "Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities."--from Amazon. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12"18/19"
The age of sail : the international annual of the historic sailing ship /edited by Nicholas Tracy. 2002. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.1
The ships of Scapa Flow / Campbell McCutcheon. "The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was important during both wars but what makes Scapa Flow famous is its wrecks, the remains of a German fleet, which once numbered some 74 vessels, most of which were scuttled in 1919, as well as the war graves of HMS Royal Oak and HMS Vanguard. The wrecks of the navy ships still survive, along with eight German warships for which a second war came and prevented salvage. Now a divers' paradise, the wrecks of Scapa Flow bring divers from all over the world and employ many in Orkney itself. This is the story of the ships of Scapa Flow, their sinking and their salvage, using many previously unseen images of the recovery and subsequent removal of many of the German battleships and cruisers to Rosyth dockyard in Fife for breaking up." -- back cover. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(411.2)