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From hardships to steamships : memoirs of a merchant seaman during World War II /Charlie Workman. Memoirs of ordinary seaman Charlie Workman commencing with his left-wing working-class childhood in poverty. A sequence of stories about his life on board various ships during the Second World War and after. Covers the basic day-to-day experiences of what life was like in the Merchant Navy and includes many insights into the routines and accidents on board ship and the people he observed and interacted with. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WORKMAN
Two years in New South Wales : a series of letters, comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony ... Cunningham, P 1827 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:919.44
The psalter, or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; with the order for morning and evening prayer daily throughout the year Church of England 1833 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-1
Sea officer / Michael Penney with Leslie Viney. Autobiography recounting the author's career as a sailor with P&O and the Royal Navy Reserve from 1945 until 1980. The book includes detailed descriptions of the author's education and apprenticeship on board mail ships in the latter days of the Second World War, his experiences in the Royal Navy Reserve, and his long career with P&O, first as a sailor, and then later as a manager in both London and Hong Kong. Includes 24 pages of black and white plates. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Penney
Naval eyewitnesses : the experience of war 1939-1945 /James Goulty. "Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy experienced a war fought on a massive scale, on every ocean of the world, in a diverse range of vessels, from battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines to merchant ships and fishing boats. Their recollections are as varied as the ships they served in, and they take the reader through the entire maritime war, as it was perceived at the time by those who had direct, personal knowledge of it. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the experience of individuals - their recruitment and training, their expectations and the reality they encountered on active service in many different offensive and defensive roles including convoy duty and coastal defence, amphibious operations, hunting U-boats and surface raiders, mine sweeping and manning landing and rescue craft. A particularly graphic section describes, in the words of the sailors themselves, what action against the enemy felt like and the impact of casualties - seamen who were wounded or killed on board or were lost when their ships sank. A fascinating inside view of the maritime warfare emerges which may be less heroic than the image created by some post-war accounts, but it gives readers today a much more realistic impression of the whole gamut of wartime life at sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545941
The Martingale chronicles : an historical novel /by John L. Winstone. A historical novel in two volumes, telling the story of Royal Navy officer James Alexander Young during the Second World War and the Korean War. The book provides a fictionalised account of life in the Royal Navy from the 1930s through to the early 1950s, describing training in the Royal Navy cadets, day-to-day life on board ship as an officer, and wartime service. Includes illustrations throughout by the author. [2009?] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92MARTINGALE
A statistical account of the British settlements in Australasia, including the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Wentworth, W C 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944/946)
A narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20 Lyon, G F 1821 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(612)"1818/1820"
British flag officers in the French wars, 1793-1815 : admirals' lives /John Morrow. "During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.333.3(42:44)"1793/1815"
The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 /C.I. Hamilton. "This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found not so much in the hands of the Board but at first largely in the hands of individuals, then groups or committees, and finally certain permanent bureaucracies. The latter bodies, such as the Naval Staff, were crucial to the development of policy-making as was the civil service Secretariat under the Permanent Secretary. By the 1920s the Admiralty had become not just a proper policy-making organisation, but for the first time a thoroughly civil-military one"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42)"18/19"
Smoke and mirrors : Q-ships against the U-boats in the First World War /Deborah Lake. "The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during the First World War, when the Royal Navy to trap and destroy German U-boats. Deborah Lake uses a wide range of primary and secondary source material drawn from archives in the UK, Germany and the USA to tell the compelling story of the Q-ships and their U-boat adversaries. The Q-ship operations themselves will be covered by following the careers of the eight men who won the Victoria Cross on Special Service Operations; and by accounts of German U-boat crews being on the receiving end. No book on Q-ships can avoid the Baralong incident in which a Q-ship's crew allegedly executed the survivors of the German submarine U-27, on 19 August 1915. In a subsequent encounter with U-41, more British atrocities were alleged by the only two German survivors. Revealing extracts from the diary of a Royal Marine who served on board the Baralong are reproduced in the book together with other first-hand accounts. With charge and counter-charge, this incident provides a fascinating story."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.829.5
Carnet de l'officier de Marine : 7e annâee :1885 Handbook for officers in the French Navy. Its contents include general reference information, tables of figures, the rights of officers, and a list of officers. 1885. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The price of victory : a naval history of Britain, 1814-1945 /N. A. M. Rodger. "At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, which refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. All the great actions are here, from Navarino in 1827 (won by a daringly disobedient Admiral Codrington) to Jutland, D-Day, the Battle of the Atlantic and the battles in the Pacific in 1944/45 in concert with the US Navy. The development and strategic significance of submarine and navy air forces is superbly described, as are the rapid evolution of ships (from classic Nelsonic type, to hybrid steam/sail ships, then armour-clad and the fully armoured Dreadnoughts and beyond) and weapons. The social history of officers and men - and sometimes women - always a key part of the author's work, is not neglected. Rodger sets all this in the essential context of politics and geo-strategy. The character and importance of leading admirals - Beatty, Fisher, Cunningham - is assessed, together with the roles of other less famous but no less consequential figures. Based on a lifetime's learning, it is the culmination of one of the most significant British historical works in recent decades. Naval specialists will find much that is new here, and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger's judgements; but everyone who is interested in the one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding."-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt
The journal of Edward Mountagu, First Earl of Sandwich, Admiral and General at Sea 1659-1665 Montagu, Edward 1929 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92Montagu
naval biography of Great Britain : consisting of historical memoirs of those officers of the British Navy Ralfe, J 1828 • FOLIO • 9 copies available. 92:355.33(42)"17/18"
Seaforth world naval review 2022 / edited by Conrad Waters. "For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, combining regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of significance to navies, such as aviation and weaponry, and calls on expertise from around the globe to give a balanced picture of what is going on and to interpret its significance. This year the 'Significant Ships' series includes its first detailed analysis of a Russian design, the Steregushchiy class corvettes now being built in sizeable numbers. Two contrasting OPVs, the French-designed Bouchard class for the Argentine Navy and the British Batch 2 'Rivers', are also covered, along with an assessment of the US Navy's new Ship to Shore Connector, a replacement for the LCAC amphibious assault hovercraft. Technology subjects include electro-optics at sea, new 'off-board' mine clearance systems, and the annual review of world naval aviation. In this issue the in-depth Fleet Reviews focus on the changing role of the Skri Lankan Navy, qualitative improvements in the Spanish Navy, and the latest British naval developments. Now well established as the only affordable annual overview of its type, World Naval Reviews is essential reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary maritime affairs, whether enthusiast or defence professional."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.03
Convoy PQ13 : unlucky for some /Morris O. Mills. The author's autobiography focusing on his experiences during ther Second World War. Mills joined the SS New Westminster City as a deck apprentice in 1940 at the age of 16 and sailed on the first arctic convoy, leaving Liverpool on 12 August 1940, as part of Operation Dervish, and returning in convoy QP1. Mills sailed on his second arctic convoy (PQ13) in March 1942, but having arrived in Murmansk, he was on board the New Westminster City when it was hit during a German bombing raid. Mills was seriously injured and hospitalised in Murmansk before leaving for Britain on HMS Edinburgh as part of QP11. HMS Edinburgh was then itself sunk during the voyage as a result of a torpedo attack and although rescued, Mills was returned to hospitals in both Murmansk and Archangel before finally being repatriated on HMS Gossamer and USS Tuscaloosa. Mills details his experiences both on board ship and in hospital. Discharged as medically unfit in 1943, Mills retrained as an electrician and served with the RAF at USAAF Alconbury before joining the Merchant Navy Reserve Pool. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92MILLS
Letters and papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red squadron 1758-1813 Middleton, Charles 1907-1911 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92Middleton
Tales from the Captain's Log : from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin, Blackbeard and Nelson - accounts of great events at sea from those who were there "For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that they encountered. Entries range from Captain James Cook's notes of his discovery of the South Pacific and Australia, to logs of the great naval battles, such as Waterloo and Trafalgar. From the ships that attempted to stop piracy in the Caribbean, to the surgeons who recorded the health of the men they tended and naturalists who noted the exotic plants and animals they encountered, comes a fascinating picture of life at sea, richly illustrated with maps, drawings and facsimile documents found alongside the logs in the archives."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)
Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society. [ed. Ray Riley]. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(946.82)
Eliott's gold : the award of head money after the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783) claim, rejection and parliamentary petition /Roy Clinton. "The Latin family motto beneath the coat of arms of General George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, reads 'Boldly and Rightly' and so it was that the General Eliott pusued a claim for prize and bounty for the Garrison and Naval department during the Great Siege of Gibraltar 1770-1783. This claim was rejected by the Navy Board as unfounded given a strict interpretation of Naval Prize Statues, but undeterred General Eliott boldly petitioned Parliament and successfully changed the law to obtain 30,000 of Head Money to be rightly distributed amongst the victorious participants. This is the previouslly untold story of how General Eliott, through strategic political manovering and persistence, changed the Navy Board's rejection into gold."--Provided by the publisher. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Striking the hornets' nest : naval aviation and the origins of strategic bombing in World War I /Geoffrey L. Rossano, Thomas Wildenberg. "This book is much more than just a history of the Navy's struggle during World War I to develop methods to destroy the German U-boat bases in Belgium. Underlying the story is the struggle among competing interests, both within and among the Allies and within the American Expeditionary Forces, for scarce resources. The authors have written a book that will become the definite study of the Northern Bombing Group. This unit's history needs to be read, for the men of the group laid the foundation for how U. S. Striking the Hornets' Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy's most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world?s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy's aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service. This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy's future use of the airplane. The NBG program faced enormous logistical and personnel challenges. Demands for aircraft, facilities, and personnel were daunting, and shipping shortages added to the seemingly endless delays in implementing the program. Despite the impediments, the Navy (and Marine Corps) triumphed over organizational hurdles and established a series of bases and depots in northern France and southern England in the late summer and early fall of 1918. Ironically, by the time the Navy was ready to commence bombing missions, the German retreat had caused abandonment of the submarine bases the NBG had been created to attack. The men involved in this program were pioneers, overcoming major obstacles only to find they were no longer needed. Though the Navy rapidly abandoned its use of strategic bombing after World War I, their brief experimentation directed the future use of aircraft in other branches of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that Robert Lovett, the young Navy reserve officer who developed much of the NBG program in 1918, spent the entire period of World War II as Assistant Secretary of War for Air where he played a crucial role organizing and equipping the strategic bombing campaign unleashed against Germany and Japan. Rossano and Wildenberg have provided a definitive study of the NBG, a subject that has been overlooked for too long."--Provided by the publisher. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.38(42:73)"1914/1918"
Australia circumnavigated : the voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 /edited by Kenneth Morgan. 'This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia's flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and 'remarks' on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings and Flinders's surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The 'Memoir' explains Flinders' methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.'--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT
We are one : the War of 1812: The Battles for St. Michaels, Maryland August 10 & 26, 1813 "Welcome to August 10, 1813, in the little town of St. Michaels, Maryland. On this hot, dark morning the feared British Navy attacked the town of three hundred, defended by local militia. This book tells the story of that attack and a subsequent attempt on August 26. We also look at the life of our citizens at that time and the lasting impact of this war in the Chesapeake Bay."--The preface. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)