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Showing the flag / Augustus Agar. Agar, Augustus. 1962. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1919/1939"

AA range table for 16-inch, 50-caliber gun : 2615 FS initial velocity; 1900-pound high-capacity projectile United States.-Navy Department 1944 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.548:623.94

North Sea (east) pilot : eastern part of the North Sea from Scheveningen to Skagen Great Britain. Hydrographer of the Navy 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83(261.26)

Leander class frigates. Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations [196-?]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.823.6(42)

The postwar fleet / edited by Captain Jeremy Stocker, MA, Ph.D, RNR "The book begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian economy, but also to adjust to the appearance of nuclear weapons and the incipient Cold War with the Soviet Union. Repeated financial crises upset plans almost as soon as they were made. The volume concludes with the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, which upset many previous planning assumptions and initiated a short-lived rearmament programme. Subsequent volumes will continue the story through the 1950s and beyond."--Provided by the publisher. 2024- • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Report on a naval mission to Europe : especially devoted to material and construction of artillery United States.-Navy Department 1873 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.42(4)"18"

within the cities of London and Westminster ... for the great success God hath been pleased to give the navy Blake, Robert 1657 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1657"(42:46)

British warships & auxiliaries : 2017 /Steve Bush. "The fully revised, updated and respected guide to the ships,aircraft and weapons of the fleet. Over 80 colour photos. Complete with pennant numbers and silhouettes. Includes Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. Includes a new entry for HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH as she prepares to join the Fleet in 2017."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)

Battle of the Atlantic : gauntlet to victory /Ted Barris "The years 2019 to 2025 mark the 80th anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War. The Battle of the Atlantic also proved to be the war's most critical and dramatic battles of attrition. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, mostly escorted by Royal Canadian destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat 'wolf packs' in the paths of the convoys, the German Kriegsmarine almost succeeded in cutting off this vital life line to a beleaguered Great Britain. In 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy went to war with exactly thirteen warships and about 3,500 regular servicemen and reservists. During the desperate days and nights of the Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the fourth largest navy in the world. The Battle of the Atlantic lasted 2,074 days. It claimed more than 4,000 lives--men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Merchant Navy. It was Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War. The story of Canada's naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939-1942, to be ready-aye-ready to challenge the U-boats, indeed to drive them to defeat 1943-1945, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. While Canadians think of the Great War battle of Vimy Ridge as Canada's coming of age, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that proved to be Canada's gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone."-- [2022] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/5971

The mastery of the sea / by Cyril Field. Field, Cyril. [1930] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

Range table for 16-inch, 50-caliber gun : 2690 FS initial velocity; 1900-pound high-capacity projectile United States.-Navy Department 1943 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.548:623.94

Range table for 16-inch, 45-caliber gun : 2635 FS initial velocity; 1900-pound high-capacity projectile United States.-Navy Department 1943 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.548:623.94

British warships & auxiliaries / Mike Critchley. Critchley, Mike 1999. • • 1 copy available.

Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 : the industrial transformation /edited by Philip MacDougall. Navy Records Society (Great Britain) c2009. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22

United States naval history : a bibliography / Lynch, Barbara. 1993 United States. Department of the Navy 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(73):016

HMS Unicorn Far East Station 1949-51 Logie, William Herbert John • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)

Patrol submarines. Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations [196-?]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)

The Durham papers : selections from the papers of Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, G.C.B. (1763-1845) /edited by Hilary L. Rubinstein "Admiral Sir Philip Durham (1763?1845) was one of the most distinguished and colourful officers of the late Georgian Navy. His lucky and sometimes controversial career included surviving the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782, making the first conquest of the tricolour flag in 1793 and the last in 1815, and having two enemy ships surrender to him at Trafalgar. A Scot distantly related to Lord Barham, Durham entered the Navy in 1777, serving initially on the American and West Indies stations. He was Kempenfelt's signal officer on HMS Victory during the second battle of Ushant in 1781 and on the Royal George. Making his reputation initially as the daring young master and commander of HMS Spitfire early in the French Revolutionary War, he became a crack frigate captain with a fortune in prize money, and commanded HMS Defiance at Trafalgar, where he was wounded. He ended his war service as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands. En voyage he artfully captured two brand-new French frigates which were subsequently taken into the service of Britain, and during his tenure he won the heartfelt gratitude of local merchants by ridding the surrounding seas of American privateers preying on British trading vessels. True to form, he clashed with the judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court on Antigua and with the general with whom he led a combined naval and military assault on Martinique and Guadeloupe following Napoleon's escape from Elba. He later served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth having resigned his parliamentary seat to do so. Married first to the sister of the Earl of Elgin, of 'Marbles' fame, and secondly to a cousin of 'sea wolf' Lord Cochrane, he was well-known to George III, who as a result of Durham's amusing yet improbable anecdotes, dubbed any tall tale he heard 'a Durham'. This collection of his papers consists mainly of letters and despatches relating to his service in the Channel Fleet, the Mediterranean, and the Leeward Islands. Correspondence with his parents during 1789?1790 reflects his anxieties relating to employment and prospects for promotion when he was a young lieutenant with an illegitimate child to support. The collection, featuring items from and to him, comprises a fascinating and informative set of documents."--Provided by publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22NRS

From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow : the Royal Navy in the Fisher era, 1904-1919 ... Marder, Arthur J 1961-1970 • BOOK • 11 copies available. 940.45

Polaris : the history of the UK's submarine force /Keith Hall. "Between 15 June 1968 and 13 May 1996, the Polaris submarines of the 10th Submarine Squadron carried out a total of 229 patrols, travelling over 2 million miles. Wherever you sit on the nuclear debate, it makes an impressive tale; delivered on time and on budget essentially by a small group of naval officers and civil servants, the Polaris programme ensured that Britain had a Continuous at Sea Deterrence for twenty-eight years. Polaris is not just the history of the weapons, submarines and politicians: it is the history of those who were there. Combining through history with personal memories and photographs, Keith Hall has created a long-lasting legacy to a fascinating project and provided an insight into a world that no longer exists."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)

Elizabethan naval administration / edited by C.S. Knighton and David Loades. "This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. It stands alongside The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I with which it shares much common apparatus and complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth's reign when there was no formal war. From 1558-1585 the Navy was involved in a number of small-scale campaigns, pursuit of pirates and occasional shows of force. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and repair. The fleet varied in size from about 30 to 45 ships during the period and a vast amount of maintenance and repair was required. The documents here illustrate just how efficiently the dockyards functioned. They were one of the great early Elizabethan achievements."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22NRS

Two navies divided : the British and United States navies in the Second World War /Brian Lavery, foreword by Admiral the Rt Hon the Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC PC. "This title, derived from George Bernard Shaw's comment that 'England and America are two countries divided by a common language,' is intended to suggest that, as with language, these two great navies had many common roots, but nontheless varied significantly in their outlook and practices. Brian Lavery's comparative and comprehensive study is the first to analyse the two forces, the largest navies the world has ever seen, and in doing so offers many original insights into how the naval war was fought and won."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/5

Clad in iron : the American Civil War and the challenge of British naval power /Howard J. Fuller ; foreword by Robert J. Schneller, Jr. Fuller, Howard J., 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(73)"1861/1865"

British naval documents 1204-1960 / edited by John B. Hattendorf, R. J. B. Knight, A. W. H. Pearsall, N. A. M. Rodger, and Geoffrey Till. Navy Records Society (Great Britain) 1993. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"12/19"(42)

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