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The state of the navy in 1907 : a plea for inquiry Civis 1907 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 354.71"1907"
fourteen seamen for mutiny ... late of his Majesty's ship Temeraire ... before a court-martial held on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial : 1802 ca1802 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1802"
copy of the proceedings on the trial of the Honorable Vice Admiral Cornwallis, held at Portsmouth on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Cornwallis : 1796 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cornwallis
A Civil War gunboat in Pacific waters : life on board USS Saginaw /Hans Konrad Van Tilburg ; foreword Van Tilburg, Hans. c2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82SAGINAW
The trial of the Hon Admiral Byng, at a court-martial held on board His Majesty's ship the St George, Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Byng : 1756 1757 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Byng
The Crimean War journals (1854-1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe : on board HMS Duke of Wellington /reasearched Crowe, Bernard Robert 2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92CROWE
Training to be an officer : syllabuses of instruction with notes for the use of apprentices and cadets Merchant Navy Training Board 1952 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 331.861
The Royal Navy : a history since 1900 /Duncan Redford and Philip D. Grove. "Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates. This book tells the story, not just of defeats and victories, but also of how the navy has adjusted to over 100 years of rapid technological and social change. The navy has changed almost beyond recognition since the far-reaching reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the turn of the century. Fisher radically overhauled the fleet, replacing the nineteenth-century wooden crafts with the latest in modern naval technology, including battleships (such as the iconic dreadnoughts), aircraft carriers and submarines. In World War I and World War II, the navy played a central role, especially as unrestricted submarine warfare and supply blockades became an integral part of twentieth-century combat. However it was the development of nuclear and missile technology during the Cold War era which drastically changed the face of naval warfare - today the navy can launch sea-based strikes across thousands of miles to reach targets deep inland. This book navigates the cross currents of over 100 years of British naval history. As well as operational issues, the authors also consider the symbolism attached to the navy in popular culture and the way naval personnel have been treated, looking at the changes in on-board life and service during the period, as well as the role of women in the navy. In addition to providing full coverage of the Royal Navy's wartime operations, the authors also consider the functions of the navy in periods of nominal peace - including disaster relief, diplomacy and exercises. Even in peacetime the Royal Navy had a substantial role to play. Covering the whole span of naval history from 1900 to the present, this book places the wars and battles fought by the navy within a wider context, looking at domestic politics, economic issues and international affairs. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in naval history and operations, as well as military history more generally."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1900/..."(42)
On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy Seppings, Robert 1820 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.12.011.21
The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual 1939-1945 / edited by Chris McNab "The Allied Merchant Navies in World War II provided a vital but often forgotten service to their countries' war effort. At the outbreak of war, the British Merchant Navy was the largest in the world, and up to 185,000 men and women served during the course of the war, some as young as 14. The US Merchant Marine all told numbered over 200,000. The risks they faced to maintain the essential flow of armaments, equipment and food were considerable. Danger came from submarines, mines, armed raiders and destroyers, aircraft, kamikaze pilots and the weather itself. Life on board a merchant ship could be tense, with hour after hour spent battling high seas, never knowing if a torpedo was about to hit. In the Arctic convoys sailors had to cope with extreme cold and ice. But there was also comradeship and more open society than was the norm at the time, free of distinctions of class, race, religion, age or colour and a mixture of nationalities, especially in the British fleet. The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of these intrepid seamen, many of whom did not return. Collating documents, diagrams and illustrations from British and American archives, it combines information on training, gunnery, convoys, anti-submarine techniques with personal accounts. Covering the battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, and the Pacific, this pitches the reader into the heart of this vital but often forgotten arena of WWII."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(035)
Held on board his Majesty's ship the Britannia ... Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Keppel : 1779 1779 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 92Fraser:094:340.96"1746"
The British fleet : the growth, achievements and duties of the navy of the Empire / Robinson, Charles Robinson, Charles N.-(Charles Napier), 1894 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)
MNTB : making headway : second progress report Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry. Merchant Navy Training Board 1972 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61:377.6
established theory with general practice, and particularly with the present practice of the British navy Steel, David 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.2
Minutes of a court martial holden on board His Majesty's ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday Gambier, James, Lord 1809 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Gambier
Minutes of a court martial, holden on board His Majesty's ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Tuesday Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Laroche : 1807 1807 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1807"Laroche
Minutes taken at a court-martial assembled on board His Majesty's ship Torbay ... pursuant to an order Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Norris : 1744 1745 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Norris
Minutes of a court martial holden on board His Majesty's ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Tuesday Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Hawkins : 1807 1807 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1807"Hawkins
Goodere Esq, Matthew Mahony, and Charles White, for the murder of Sir John Dineley Goodere Bart ... on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Goodere, Mahony, White : 1741 1741 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Goodere:094:344.4"1740"
Minutes of a court martial holden on board His Majesty's ship Prince of Wales, in Portsmouth Harbour, Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Calder : 1805 1806 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1805"Calder
Rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash revisited : Winston Churchill and social reform in the Royal Navy, "'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. During this period, not only were there major improvements in pay and conditions for sailors, but detailed consideration was also given to the future of the spirit ration; to the punishing and eradicating of homosexual practices; to the spiritual concerns of the fleet; and to the regime of corporal punishment that underpinned naval discipline for boy sailors. In short, under Churchill, the Royal Navy introduced a social reform programme perfectly encapsulated in this elegant quip. And, yet, not only has no one studied it; many people do not even know that such a programme even existed. This book rectifies that. It shows that Churchill was not just a major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, but that he continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1900/1915"
The silent deep : the Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945 /Peter Hennessy and James Jinks. "'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel, The Silent Deep is the first authoritative history of the Submarine Service from the end of the Second World War to the present. It gives the most complete account yet published of the development of Britain's submarine fleet, its capabilities, its weapons, its infrastructure, its operations and above all - from the testimony of many submariners and the first-hand witness of the authors - what life is like on board for the denizens of the silent deep. Dramatic episodes are revealed for the first time: how HMS Warspite gathered intelligence against the Soviet Navy's latest ballistic-missile-carrying submarine in the late 1960s; how HMS Sovereign made what is probably the longest-ever trail of a Soviet (or Russian) submarine in 1978; how HMS Trafalgar followed an exceptionally quiet Soviet 'Victor III', probably commanded by a Captain known as 'the Prince of Darkness', in 1986. It also includes the first full account of submarine activities during the Falklands War. But it was not all victories: confrontations with Soviet submarines led to collisions, and the extent of losses to UK and NATO submarine technology from Cold War spy scandals are also made more plain here than ever before. In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent. The story from Polaris to Trident - and now 'Successor' - is a central theme of the book. In the year that it is published, Russian submarines have once again been detected off the UK's shores. As Britain comes to decide whether to renew its submarine-carried nuclear deterrent, The Silent Deep provides an essential historical perspective."--Proided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)"1945/2015"
Minutes of the court martial, holden on board His Majesty's ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour, on Duckworth, J T, Sir 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Duckworth
Science, utility and British naval technology, 1793-1815 : Samuel Bentham and the royal dockyards /Roger Morriss. "During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623/.64094109034