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My inestimable friend / Alastair R. Brown.
2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92BROWN
The unforgiving minute.
2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
355.124"19"
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852.
2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available.
347.71East India
Charles Hare's great escape : the story of a Napoleonic prisoner of war /Katherine Gazzard.
2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.1296
The genesis of the naval profession / Norbert Elias ; edited and with an introduction by Renâe Moelker and Stephen Mennell.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.353
Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's own hero
2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92COLLINGWOOD
Leaves from memory's log-book and jottings from old journals
1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.124(42)"18"
Promotion or the bottom of the river : the blue and gray naval careers of Alexander F. Warley, South Carolinian /John M. Stickney.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92WARLEY
Chronometer Jack : the autobiography of the shipmaster John Miller of Edinburgh (1802-1883) /edited by Robin Craig, Ann Nix and Michael Nix.
2008. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
92Miller, John
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut : the Civil War years /Chester G. Hearn.
1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92FARRAGUT
William IV : a king at sea /Roger Knight.
2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92WILLIAM IV
The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of The Church of England : together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons.
[post 1900]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
264-13
The biographical memoirs of Captain William Edmeades, 1766-1852, the honorable East India Company / [edited by Michael Baker and Patricia Baker].
2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92EDMEADES
Horatio Lord Nelson / Brian Lavery.
2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92NELSON
With the Royal Navy in war and peace : o'er the dark blue sea /by B.B. Schofield ; edited by Victoria Schofield.
2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92SCHOFIELD
More lives than a ship's cat / Jeremy Stoke.
2022. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
92STOKE
Nelson's Right Hand Man The Life and Times of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle. ,E. J. Hounslow
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92FREMANTLE, THOMAS
Ships, shawls and loyal service : the stories of three East Anglian brothers /David Blakely.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
929.52
Hornblower's historical shipmates : the young gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable /Heather Noel-Smith.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.335.34
'I am determined to live or die on board my ship.' : the life of Admiral John Inglis : an American in the Georgian Navy /Jim Tildesley.
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
359.0092
The Wager disaster : mayhem, mutiny and murder in the south seas /C.H. Layman.
2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
656.61.085.3WAGER
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